Last month I posted about my general frustration with how the church has handled HIV prevention. Well, imagine my delight when I received an email about a Brown University researcher, Amy Nunn (really her name!), who has partnered with around 100 pastors in the...
HIV/AIDS
America Has Teabagged Itself
They say anything is possible in this country, and it just happened. A sexual act once thought impossible was performed on Tuesday when America successfully teabagged itself. Earlier this week, Editor-in-Chief of Poz Magazine, Regan Hofmann, blogged about why the...
Thank You, Neil Willenson
Camp Heartland (now One Heartland) founder Neil Willenson is a hero in the HIV/AIDS community because has helped thousands of children with HIV both forget about their status and learn how to accept it. By starting a summer for HIV positive children back in 1993, Neil...
Blog Action Day, The Need For Clean Water
I'm not sure how I found out about this, but somehow the internet and it's vast tentacles led me to Blog Action Day, an initiative that brings together bloggers and raises awareness about various topics. When I saw that today's Blog Action Day is about the need for...
I’m An Old Man
When I turned 35 this summer, I posted a blog stating that I am officially middle-aged. I got quite a few messages about how extended life expectancies have shifted that number, and how I'm not "officially" middle-aged yet. I do believe that measuring age in numbers...
Religion & HIV Prevention
I'm not a religious guy, but I do believe in something bigger than our physical bodies- I just don't know what exactly "it" is. Do I believe that humans are more important than toads? Yes. But that's because I am human and I am blessed/cursed with self-awareness and...
AIDS Walk DC: Thank You to Our Sponsors
Against the odds, Gwenn and I made our fundraising goal of $2000 for the AIDS Walk in DC this year, which is this Saturday. I really didn't think it was possible, partly because of the recession, partly because I didn't feel particularly inspired hitting people up...
Happy Birthday to a Hero in HIV/AIDS
A big ol' birthday wish to Angela Hamilton. She's the brainchild of the AIDS Walk team that Gwenn and I walk for, Team Supersnack. We met Angela in 2000, when she- like Gwenn- were involved in the Miss Virginia Organization as scholarship contestants. Though they...
O’Donnell: If You Can’t Beat It… Join ‘Em?
I haven't been blogging too much lately. Maybe it's because I've been in a fetal position, pacifier in my mouth crying for a Mother Earth to explain some things to me. Like how an anti-masturbation advocate can be one election away from a Senate seat? Or how a...
Chicken Soup… For the Positoid Soul?
I submitted a story for the Chicken Soup series a while back, detailing my journey with HIV and how I coped and survived pre-meds. Some of it was luck, some of it was an innate idea and the teachings of my parents that being down would only harm my immune system's...