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Lecture in Fort Lauderdale- July 30, 2009email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: Nelson Vergel's HIV Blog - June 18, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Massachusetts Needs an Integrated, Comprehensive HIV Testing Planemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
More than 8,000 of the estimated 25,000 Massachusetts residents who are living with HIV do not yet know their HIV status. About one third of people who are newly diagnosed with HIV each year have already progressed to an AIDS diagnosis making it more difficult and costly to manage and treat their disease. These statistics are especially alarming in a state that has pioneered health care reform and has arguably one of the best HIV service systems in the country.  It is imperative that we find new ways of identifying people living with HIV and connect them to care.  Effective, integrated HIV screening in a variety of setti...
Source: AIDS Action Committee's Blog - June 17, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Monique Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Why I Really Fight HIV...email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Like some people there are times when I wonder about the meaning and purpose of my life. I think to this very blog. Tonight I sat down and read every single post and every comment all over again. WOW! I was a pretty bitter and angry person at times. Other times, I saw a scared little boy, afraid he was going to miss out on all life had to offer. What kept me writing? I looked back at some of your comments and have included 10 that I have received from you, my readers:Anonymous said...You are very brave to be so open about your (well, ok...our disease). I am in complete isolation and "out" to nobody about it. Thanks for blo...
Source: Still arriving. - June 16, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Broadway Bares 19email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
BROADWAY BARES 19.0 “CLICK IT!” Presented by M·A·C VIVA GLAM Sunday, June 21: 9:30 PM & Midnight Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street)  Tickets are on sale for the 2009 edition of BC/EFA's hotly anticipated summer event: Broadway Bares 19. Created in 1992 by Tony Award® winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray and Peep Show in Las Vegas), the event features the hottest male and female dancers on Broadway and has become one of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS' signature events. Broadway Bares 19.0 “CLICK IT!” will ha...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

CerealArt Print Portfolio to benefit YouthAIDS, Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Cerealart has published a print portfolio in an edition of 25 with works by Michael Bevilacqua, Jeremy Deller, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Simmons, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas and Kelley Walker as a benefit for YouthAIDS work in Uganda along with Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow. Each print is 16 x 20 inches and handsigned and numbered by the artist. The Portfolio of 7 works in an edition of 25 is cased in a linen box and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the organizations.The war in Northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lor...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Broadway Bares 19email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

CerealArt Print Portfolio to benefit YouthAIDS, Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

kearns attends AIDS hero olivia cater’s memorial monday 2pm (1164)email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Services for Oliva Cater will be held at the United Methodist Church located at the northwest corner of Highland and Franklin in Hollywood on Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 2pm. Please join us with Darnel for the Service in the Sanctuary at 2:00 and then after in the adjacent Grand Hall for further celebration with Olivia and Darnel’s greater family… chers— her name was & still is olivia she was an LA AIDS empowerment regular was & still is a shining light born in zimbabwe a costumer & seamstress & grieving mother for her 18-month-old AIDS-dead infant son (dad on the down low) too too long ag...
Source: aids-write.org - June 15, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism contains rks original photography, graphic art cri Source Type: blogs

Stonewall Was a Riot!email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Queer Riffs on Life Since 1969Monday, June 22nd at the Stonewall Inn53 Christopher Street. Doors open 7:30pm. Show starts 8pm.Performers include: Staceyann Chin, Dred, Anthony Escobar, Holly Hughes, Rosamond King, Lisa Kron, Chic & Sassy. MC: JZ Bich DJs: Sara Graham of Bust Magazine and DaddyStonewall Was a Riot! celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots at the scene of the crime, kicks off Pride week 2009, and launches OutHistory.org's "Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest." Stonewall Was a Riot! is a fundraiser for OutHistory.org. The suggested minimum donation is $20. Please RSVP to outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 14, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Stonewall Was a Riot!email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 14, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Summer fun writing blitzemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
No cottage? No vacation? Want something different to do this summer? Linda Dawn Pettigrew and I will be offering three writing events at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (427 Bloor St. W., west of Spadina, Toronto.) The first, July 14, will introduce short, enjoyable writing activities on the topic of Identity. The second will explore Gratitude, on [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: writing Source Type: blogs

Bread passed along for my journeyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography mental health poetry Mary Oliver Source Type: blogs

kearns celebrates 58th birthday w/LA city council, reads “power to change the world” (1163)email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
[tuesday, june 9, 2009] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. my name is richard kearns. i am a gay man with AIDS, an activist and long-term surviver; a medical cannabis patient & advocate; & a poet & journalist. it is my joy to stand before you today another year older; i am now 58.. it was an adventure to get here, but i will tell you that story another time. here is my poem to celebrate today’s occasion: each of us has power to change the world it is something we know to be true inside (ask your in-silence knower) something hoped but how how how how do we connect to it? what ...
Source: aids-write.org - June 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: aging and HIV/AIDS aids & bubonic plague & 1918 flu aids.org americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids champ citizen journalism contains rks origin Source Type: blogs

AIDS Vigil to mark its 25th yearemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The AIDS Memorial Cawthra Square Park, Toronto Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 9:00PM Hosted by Quinn Johnston, Billy Newton-Davis, Shari Margolese For More Information | 416.392.6878 Ext 4012 | www.the519.org The public is invited to attend the 25th Anniversary of the annual AIDS Candlelight Vigil, on Thursday evening, June 25, 2009, at 9:00 p.m.at the AIDS Memorial in Cawthra Park. [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV activism grief AIDS Memorial Church Street Community Centre The 519 Toronto Source Type: blogs

June 12/09 Sober Pride Fab shot, Hildy makes it in again.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Hildy - The A list Mascot - photo by my friend Brandon, and that’s his boyfriend’s lap. Last night, all doped up, I popped in my last DVD to watch. Having been so strung out post-mouth op, and plain tiredness, I picked up some duds. Or at least they weren’t capable of holding my interest. The final one was “The Day The Earth Stood Still” well, it was more like the “The Day 135 Minutes Stood Still” When someone is f.ed up and over medicated from psych drugs and you’re still not into the movie, something is wrong. The other two were just as bad for me, “Passengers, and Killshot” (With Mickey R...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments Ramblings most recent FAB Francis Framer Hildy mascot Source Type: blogs

Sex Positive - The Movieemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Sex Positive opens Friday June 12 at The Quad and plays for one week.SEX POSITIVE explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M- hustler-turned-AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic as a community leader, demanding a solution to the problem before anyone else would pay attention. However, it was not Berkowitz' voice alone that sparked contention. More at www.sexpositive-themovie.comQ&A's are Fri, Sat, and Sun at 7:45pm, and 9:45pm shows. Reviews:NY Magazine ...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 11, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Sex Positive - The Movieemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 11, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

June 11/09 Francis Farmer Relapse Offical Diagnosisemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Thank you to my friend Brandon for the Hildy photos. It’s been a week where I’ve not want to think too much.  And when I don’t want to think, I resort to the dogs. This is because I was offically diagnosed as Francis Farmer again, the relapse. It’s not due to the regular meds but the antidepressents. My doc looked at me this morning and said, “You are alarmingly spacey.” That was after I showed him the stitches inside my mouth from sewing back up the gums. “Those are stitches? Let if go on the record that you officially made your physician nauseous!” I decided not to tell hi...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 11, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments most recent antidepressants Frances Farmer Source Type: blogs

Reme Hort Mann Foundation - Silent Auctionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ Artists A fundraiser during gay pride week— open to everyone! Wednesday, June 24, 6 - 9 pm 28 Wooster St (@ Grand St), Soho Free wine and liquor bar + food DJs Telfar and Nita Aviance Silent Art Auction $20 tickets, at-door only100% of the proceeds from the sale of artworks support cancer patients and visual artists and the creation of a new fund to sponsor events, presentations and lectures by artists from the gay community. Reme Hort Foundation
Source: VisualAIDS - June 11, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Reme Hort Mann Foundation - Silent Auctionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

June 10/09 Buster’s Inventory, or mine should I say.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Since there has been some interest in my Buster Step 4. I’ll share some of it. The very day after getting him at 8 weeks, I had a bad reaction to Septra and was quite sick. I farmed out my bigger dog out to a friend, and kept Buster. He slept with me night and day. I could just put him down on the puppy pads, which made having him there easy. I carried him around with me in my housecoat so he didn’t have an accident, this gave me the feeling as if I was mother carrying around her new born all the time. My health went down hill for a very long time of a series of more downs that ups. I was resistant to all the medicatio...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments most recent 4th Step Buster Dog training Source Type: blogs

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY VISITS NATA VILLAGEemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Nata Primary School got a warm visit from two professors, eight university students and one husband from Lake Superior State University in America to donate clothing, shoes, sports equipment and candy for the Orphan and Needy students. Their visit was short but enjoyable, during the distribution of all the items they collected in the States. More than 126 Orphan and Needy students received a pair of shoes, one t-shirt or jersey, one toy, one tooth brush with tooth paste, and a hand full of candy. All students were accompanied by their care givers during this great event. The distribution...
Source: The Nata village blog - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: natavillage Source Type: blogs

Michael Lownie in Union Square, SFemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Michael Lownie's public sculpture, "Always Hope" is on display at Union Square (corner of Geary & Stockton) in San Francisco through September 2009. After that it will be installed in the lobby at Intel's World Headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.photo: David Yu
Source: VisualAIDS - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Hunter Reynolds @ Momenta Artemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Momenta Art is pleased to announce that Hunter Reynolds' show, Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter will be extended one week and will now close on June 22, 2009. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday, noon-6 PM.EventsThursday June 11, 8 PMFiddle Sticks, A Performance by Rafael Sánchez with Kathleen White & Zach Berkley on bass. Readings by Elias Comfort.  Poems by Cilantro Joe.  AND Stupid Spacy Dancing by Hunter Reynolds with gowns by Ethan Shoshan.Friday June 12, 7 PM Artist Talk with Hunter ReynoldsSunday June 14, 3-6 PMHunter Reynolds will present a remote story-telling/conversation performanc...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Fairy Tales: Personal Legend, Urban Myth, Gay Exhibitionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Casa Frela Gallery47 West 119th Street, NYC June 13 - July 13, 2009Reception:  Saturday, June 13,  4–7 PMFairy Tales features drawings, paintings and sculpture by six gay artists: Brian H. Crede, Anthony Gonzales, Joel Handorff, Seth Ruggles Hiler, Tai Lin and Branden Charles Wallace. image: Brain Crede, Golden Boy, 2008
Source: VisualAIDS - June 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

President Obama takes support of gays for granted – shame!email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
What a disappointment. An otherwise principled guy (so many of us thought) sides with the ball-scratchers and Prop 8-backers who voted for him. Will it take multiple trips to any number of combinations of Supreme Court Justices of the future to wrest equality from the government, as it did here in Canada? I hope not. [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Barack Obama Human Rights YouTube activism homosexuality politics - USA social justice Source Type: blogs

Luis Carle - The Divine Journeyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Michael Lownie in Union Square, SFemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Hunter Reynolds @ Momenta Artemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Fairy Tales: Personal Legend, Urban Myth, Gay Exhibitionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

“Sex With Ducks” creators interviewed; Robertson ‘clarifies’ comments that started it allemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
CNN’s Jeanne Moos finds out that Pat Robertson was not talking about gay marriage in his reference to ducks a while ago. He was talking against the Mathew Shepard hate crimes bill that extended that legislation to include crimes of violence involving sexual orientation. Gee thanks, Pat, that makes it much better! [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube activism fundamentalism homosexuality humour politics - USA same-sex marriage sexual orientation social conservatives Source Type: blogs

June 10/09 Having to do a Step 4 on my PTSD Dogemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Damn, just when I thought I’d covered all my bases, I’m back to a 4. Well at least a mini-four on a subject I never thought I’d have to write. Some may not be too knowledgeable on this non-stepping form of aerobics. The 4th is, one of steps of a 12 step-recovery program. Here you take an inventory of your life, your relations, resentments, and fear. Just a nice look at some of the garbage in our past lives not just to face it, but to know where to go to look at cleaning up some prior messes. Once you done this, the next step is to tell someone face to face. (This is the dummies version). Little did I know...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments Recovery most recent 4th Step Dog trainers GLBT Source Type: blogs

Positive Paintings by Boris Torresemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Boris Torres: Recent  PaintingsJune 1 - September 4, 2009Opening Reception, Thursday, June 11, 6PM-8PM The Center 208 W 13th Street, NYCIn this recent  work, Torres has created two distinct series of paintings that  together display his clear-eyed and compassionate approach to  portraiture. In Positive Paintings, six large-scale  works of self-identified HIV positive men and women, Torres depicts  how character comes from a variety of sources, including home,  sexuality, health, love, and pride. While in What is Real and What is Not, a series of smaller works presented in the  Campbell Soady Gallery, Torres layer...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Positive Paintings by Boris Torresemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Source: VisualAIDS - June 8, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Emory University looks at same sex civil marriage bans and HIV ratesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
In an interesting story, bans on same-sex marriage can be tied to a rise in the rate of HIV infection a new study by two Emory economists has found. In the first study of the impact of social tolerance levels toward gays in the United States on the HIV transmission rate, the researchers estimated that a constitutional ban on gay marriage raises the rate by four cases per 100,000 people. You can read the full story here
Source: AIDS Action Committee's Blog - June 8, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Keith Tags: admin agenda HIV prevention HIV Health HIV Testing media Source Type: blogs

June 8/09 Digging into my gums does not compare to my head.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I’m writing this before I head off to bed. In the morning I head over to the endontist to peel back the old gums again and stitch then up. This was last done in March. Just before dinner I realized that I hadn’t started the antibiotics two days prior. Immediately I took two for a loading dose, and the rest will be a wing and a prayer. Right now I feel like barfing. But I tell you, in no way to I feel put out by it as I watched a friend today who’s been in the hospital due to a siezure which has turned out to be something in his brain. I say something because they don’t know. Fortunately he was able ...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 8, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Trauma most recent Dentist GLBT Pain Source Type: blogs

June 7/09 Glamorous Interruptus.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Tomorrow’s dental surgery had put an immediate kubosh and performed an act of glamour interruptus, earning airmiles by going to St. John’s. Truth be told, for a few weeks, more like a month now, I had begun to feel that urge to consume substance. At first I labeled these feelings “cravings” specifically targeted at doing particular things. I begun to grab cigarettes from friends calling it “harm reduction.” Then suddenly it hit what I call the “pit of want” or more visually a black hole implanted in the middle of my soul that simply wants to consume, and consume anything be i...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 7, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Recovery Trauma What the Fuck most recent Oprah Very Funny & Glamorous Source Type: blogs

Prideemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Human Rights activism autobiography family homosexuality media personal journal recovery sexual orientation spirituality Source Type: blogs

I answer CP24’s question, “What does Pride mean to you?”email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Human Rights activism autobiography family homosexuality media personal journal recovery sexual orientation spirituality Source Type: blogs

June 5th Hildy begins her career as a harness model.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A couple of head shots for her portfolio, and the breeder in Rivière-du-Loup so she can see how her little girl is doing.
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments most recent harness top model Source Type: blogs

NATIONAL MEASLES AND VITAMIN-A CAMPAIGN IN NATA VILLAGEemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
No child left behind is Nata's theme for the first round of vitamin-a supplementation in June 1st-7th. The Ministry Of Health is conducting a Measles and Vitamin-A National Compaign. During the campaign, all children aged nine months to five years will be given a dose of Measles vaccine. An oral dose of Vitamin-A will be given to all children aged six months to five years. All parents and caretakers are urged to bring their children to the vaccination posts during this campaign. The Ministry of health hopes everyone in Nata Village will take ...
Source: The Nata village blog - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: natavillage Source Type: blogs

Derek Jarman's Blue screening at 92Y Tribecaemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Film ScreeningBlueDirector: Derek Jarman. 79 min. 1993. 35mm.92Y Downtown 200 Hudson Street at Canal Thursday June 11th, 7:30"Blue is the last of iconoclastic queer filmmaker Derek Jarman’s 12 features, completed only four months before his death and after his vision had been subsumed by constant blue light. The film's continuous blue screen becomes an absorbing canvas for audiences' visions, as Jarman's poetic, angry, wistful and sometimes humorous accounts of his illness create an atmospheric wall of sound. For me, the collective experience of viewing this film in a theater is unmatched."—Matt WolfThis scree...
Source: VisualAIDS - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

June 4/09 Hildy’s 11th Month B-day and her BB obsessionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
So I’m over my glamour interuptus moment I had yesterday when I called off my trip to St. John’s.  Hopefully today will feel different. God knows why, but I woke up at 6:30 which is an ungodly time for me. I enjoy the mornings and they are more productive, if they were just not followed by the afternoon crash and burn state I arrive at sometime after one. Buster has gone off to dog training/boarding school, I prefer to call it Codependency Rehab.  The trainer took him by the leash and tried to get him to walk forward as I left in the other direction. His collar was riding up on his ears as he dug in his four ...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 4, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Canine moments most recent BB Chihuahua GLBT harness Hildy leather Podiatrist Source Type: blogs

Living in the east on west coast timeemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
At just after 1 a.m. EDST I am now contemplating hauling ass to my bed, although any number of distractions could keep me from there. I see my nearly new therapist for the second time Thursday and, if last week is anything to go by, I will be glad it’s a late afternoon appointment. A [...]
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 4, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: bipolar music Source Type: blogs

Sunil Gupta @ Stephen Bulger Galleryemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
 Sunil GuptaJune 5-July 18, 2009Reception: June 11 at 3-5pmScreening: "I Want to Live" video on Saturday June 13 at 3pmStephen Bulger Gallery1026 Queen St. West, Toronto416-504-0575The exhibition, Mr. Malhotra's Party, will feature portraits of queer Delhiites and include a screening of "I Want to Live".
Source: VisualAIDS - June 4, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Nelson Santos Source Type: blogs

Frequent Flier to Hell and Backemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
All of the warning lights in my head have come one and it's time for action. This latest wave of crippling anxiety, depression and obsessive thinking has it's roots way back in my early childhood. As I look honestly back, I've had clinical depression and anxiety most of my life, mixed in with long periods of normalcy. Clinical depression and OCD also ran in my family who are all long dead.I began seeing a counselor which to some might seem a form of weakness, but I look at it the opposite way, sometimes you need a little outside help. I'm also scheduled to see a psycopharmacologist about the possibility of some "temporary"...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - June 3, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

June 3/09 No Frillsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
This may have to do with the fact I’ve been feeling shitty again. There has been some complication with the dental surgery I had a few months ago. Not only has this gotten me tired and cranky, I will have to cancel heading off to St. John’s in order to have my gum removed and sewed back on again. Plus, I’ve been told I’ll have to wait for yet another year to get into an orthopedic surgeon, leaving me to seriously consider paying for this to be done. This is the easy part, the decision and paying, the hard part will be having two feet in pain with broken bones, all the while trying to look after myse...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 3, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Ramblings most recent GLBT No Frills Toronto Source Type: blogs

OFFICIAL OPENING OF NORTH GATE LODGEemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
This was Nata’s greatest ever party! Nata, that little village at the crossroads to Maun and Kasane, had never seen anything like it!It seemed that the whole village turned out for the official opening of the swish North Gate Lodge and then went to the Nata Bird Sanctuary lookout point at Sua Pan to a mega party well into the night on Saturday.It was a day and night villagers will never forget as lodge owner Seloma Tiro and his staff, led by general manager Peter McClelland and his wife Susan, deputy general manager, pulled out all the stops to make it a huge success.The event at...
Source: The Nata village blog - June 3, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: natavillage Source Type: blogs

June 2/09 I had crabs at Nautical Nellies & Snuggie Gala Videoemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Où, où, est ma génération. Sexy coma, Sexy trauma, Sexy coma, Sexy trauma. Coma de sex, de styxes, d’esthétique … The lyrics to Mylène Farmer, so romantic aren’t they. It’s always hard to come with shit post trip. The post-arrival home it fraught full of exciting activities such as housework, dog shit, getting groceries etc. This afternoon I have my first meeting with a voice training coach. Many years ago I did this through the Equity Showcase Theatre. It was a voice training for the theatre course, and boy I needed it. At the times microphones scared me and I even spoke quieter. Afterward I...
Source: acidrefluxweb.com - June 2, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Finch Tags: Acid Reflux Reality Show Acid Reflux Reality Show Video Featured Travel most recent newtag Source Type: blogs