This year the AIDS Walk launched a Facebook site for participants to answer the question, “Who are you walking for?” Some weeks ago this writer attended a team leader informational meeting. At the end of the session the leader asked the attendees to answer the question on video. That gave me pause to think back…
(CNN) — Paris Hilton‘s comments about gay men who use a cell phone app for sexual hook ups were expressions of concern about the dangers of unprotected sex, not homophobic slurs, her publicist said Thursday. The Hollywood socialite said, “Gay guys are the horniest people in the world,” called them “disgusting” and suggested “most of…
Being Alive HIV/AIDS Services announces acceptance in the Chase Community Giving Fund, which allows the public to vote one which charities will be helped most by the fund. Supporters of Being Alive are given the opportunity to go online and vote and thereby help increase the organization’s ability to meet the needs of its clients….
We all love New York, right? Some of us visit for Broadway, the great white way of song and dance and musical theater. Others are drawn to the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and the Empire State Building. Some simply like East Coast anything: time-worn architecture, leafy green trees, hot dogs with mustard and attitude….
Positively Aware, a magazine devoted to HIV treatment and wellness published bi-monthly by Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) in Chicago, is sponsoring A Day with HIV, an annual photo essay to be published in the forthcoming November/December issue. Each day across the globe almost 7,000 people, including 900 children, will contract HIV, joining an estimated…
To quote the great Steven Sondheim, (via Barbra Streisand) “A vision’s just a vision if it’s only in your head … It has to come to life!” That was certainly the case when the San Diego Museum of Art accepted The Quilt Conversation, my summer-long project proposal about AIDS and the 1980s that involved quilting,…
No Time to Lose by Peter Piot It’s 10 minutes after the hour, and you’ve done it again. You hate missing the first part of your favorite show. Call it obsession, call it silly, but you have to see it from the start or you don’t feel it’s worth watching at all. Yes, you could…
(CNN) — I’ve known my BFF Natalie Palmer since ninth grade. She’s still my best friend 21 years later. We’ve shared some defining moments: her wedding and the birth of her two children; my coming out of the closet as a gay man; losing my mother at 23 years old; our 20-year college reunion. I…
AIDS Walk & Run San Diego has announced a series of team leader workshops, designed to provide information and support to team leaders and those interested in forming teams for this year’s event. The 23rd annual AIDS Walk & Run San Diego will take place Sunday, Sept. 30 in Balboa Park. Team leader workshops are…
The store is quiet. It is morning, and before the doors open we rush to get things ready to serve our customers. For 22 years hundreds of volunteers and storekeepers have felt the same tingling of anticipation. Gary Cheatham began almost a quarter century ago in his garage thinking of a way to help his…
