Last month Gwenn and I had the privilege of speaking about HIV education and prevention on Al Jazeera's The Stream, representing sero-discordant couples. Annie Lennox and activists from around the world were on hand to discuss the need for continued funding of HIV...
Entertainment & Pop Culture
Donald Trump’s (Fictional) Presidential HIV/AIDS Survey Answers
Imagining a world where Republican candidates answer surveys by HIV/AIDS organizations... here's Donald Trump "discussing" the issues of the day. Enjoy. Positively Yours, Shawn On HIV research An extremely credible source has called my office and...
Charlie Sheen Bit Me: An HIV Love Story #ValentinesDay
"Charlie bit me... and that really hurt!" The infamous "Charlie bit me" YouTube video has been viewed over 800 million times since it was posted in 2007. It's a pretty adorable video, featuring two brothers and a trust exercise gone horribly wrong. But recently, the...
PSA: Don’t Be Like Bill Maher. He’s Stupid.
Check out fellow blogger Trenton Straube's recent post, "This is Bill. Bill Has HIV... Be Like Bill", which, combined with Bill Maher's stupidity, helped to inspire this blog post.
Magnetic (Serodiscordant) Couples on TV
As someone who is HIV positive and in a relationship with someone who is HIV negative, I was excited to hear that a serodiscordant (“magnetic”) couple was going to be included in season 4 of Shuga, the fictional series based on real world experiences with HIV. Femi is...
Back to the Future Day
So today is the day- the infamous day of the future highlighted in Back to the Future. October 21, 2015. I saw the movie in the theater, and just rewatched the film last month. It still holds water! Now, we don't have flying cars as predicted by the franchise, but...
A Month of Superheroes: Charles Sanchez and Team Merce
This week saw the big finale of the 8 episode original HIV comedic web series, Merce. I was so intrigued when I first heard about Merce last year, via an Indiegogo campaign - could a comedic story centered around a guy living in NYC work? I believed. I donated. I...
Judd Winick: The Hero Who Crashed The Real World
I've written extensively about how much The Real World San Francisco influenced me- you know, the season of MTV's reality show that featured Pedro Zamora and his life with HIV. I wasn't talking about HIV openly when that aired in 1994. I loved seeing Pedro meet new...
A Month of Superheroes: John Oliver
The new issue of POZ is out, entitled "Suppression Superheroes". You can check it out by clicking here. Inspired by this issue, I want to spend the next month highlighting some folks who I deem to be superheroes among us. They'll range from people I've met in flesh in...
Merce- Original HIV Comedy Series!
Now that 40 has sunk in, and I have recovered from my birthday festivities, I wanted to post an entry about one of my favorite new things: Merce! It's so over-the-top campy and kind-hearted, with a story that is centered around the middle-aged Merce, an HIV positive...