I blogged about the It Gets Better campaign last week in regard to the bullying of the teenage LGBT community and the recent, tragic suicides linked to institutionalized bullying. My friend, Erin Weed*, posted a great blog entry on how we all can do better than...
Shawn’s Gang
AIDS is a Drag (AIDS Walk 2010 Pics)
Team Supersnack showed up in full force this year, but the belles of the ball were definitely the AIDS is a Drag crew. It looks like I'm pageant posing here, but I'm actually holding my Wal-Mart hat between my legs, I couldn't bear to wear it alongside this...
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...
Remembering Stephen Gendin
Ten years ago I was getting a few emails from a friend about a special party for a positoid pal who "wasn't doing too well". But I couldn't imagine the Stephen I knew- blue, red, green hair and all- as anything less than vibrant, and at the time, I was wiped out from...
My Reputation Buried By A Tweet?
I've worked hard to be, if not a respected voice, at least a voice of some reason in the AIDS community. I know, at times, I come across as a bit shameless. But hey, considering the shame so many who live with HIV- in silence- feel, I just consider myself a pendulum...
Introducing The Confusinator
Apparently there was a lot of muffled laughter about The Swatchmen, a superhero group I will lead into battle the day after I am cured of hemophilia. (Read the original blog here.) Well, the Swatchmen Facebook group is bursting at the seams with 48 members, one...
It’s Official: Erin Weed Joins My Gang
Everyone thought I was kidding with the whole Swatchmen thing. That the idea of starting a gang the day after they discover a cure for hemophilia was merely another flight of fancy on a blog that's been plagued by flights of fancy- or, even better- fantasy. Well, I'm...