A few years ago I was scheduled to get the inner workings of my brain checked out. I'm not sure what lead to the scheduling of the appointment, perhaps I confided in my doctor that I felt particularly forgetful or just not with it mentally. What I do remember is that,...
HIV/AIDS
Limping Into 2015, Literally
"To survive in this world, sometimes you must have the eye of the over-sized domesticated cat." - me My last blog post was on December 4th- I was ending the year of 2014 in arguably the prime of my life: confidant and wearing a moustache for the first time, standing...
My Sexy Freddie Mercury Shower Pic
The Freddie Mercury moustache has arrived in style on World AIDS Day thanks to Jack Mackenroth's #weareALLclean social media campaign/fundraiser for Housing Works. It's been so much fun to participate in and donate to this as I prepare to call on friends to donate to...
We Are Clean… AND the Champions (of the World)
Shawn is growing a Freddie Mercury moustache to raise money for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Donations are doubled starting at 5 am EST on Thursday, December 4 and through Saturday, December 6(Click to donate!). Also, for every $1 donated Durex is donating 5...
The Power of a Freddie Mercury Moustache
I'm in the process of doing something I've never done before... I'm growing a Freddie Mercury moustache. I'm revealing the moustache on World AIDS Day, December 1. Then, with your help we will, WE WILL rock AIDS together for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Because...
Pedro Zamora, Half A Lifetime Ago
Today marks 20 years since Pedro Zamora passed. That's half my lifetime ago, but the loss still resonates with me because of Pedro's influence on my life and my work as an educator. His relationship with Sean Sasser on MTV's Real World showed me that a loving, healthy...
Miley Cyrus & Rihanna TittyF#%k AIDS (In A Good Way)
At a recent amfAR fundraiser, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna showed up in risque and boob-revealing outfits. Which is the same thing as saying that President Obama showed up to a State of the Union address wearing a tie. Some people may have been put off- but the outfits...
THE TOWELING: A Halloween Horror Short Story
Gary lays naked on his bed in his modest NYC apartment in the East Village. The window is cracked open and a breeze comes in as he channel surfs. He shouts towards the cracked bathroom door that is several feet from the bed. "Save some hot water for me!" Gary tugs the...
My Hep Story
When people think of my medical conditions there tends to be a pecking order... HIV gets top-billing, then hemophilia (raise your voices, my fellow thinbloods!)... and at the end of the line is poor ol' hepatitis. Hep allowed me to share my story about how hepatitis...
The HIV Question on Couples Therapy
Nina and Gwenn catching up over coffee in September. Last week I tuned into Couples Therapy on VH1 because I'd heard that Bob Bowers would be making an appearance. I'm a huge fan of the One Tough Pirate, former POZ coverboy and current HIV asskicker. Though it wasn't...