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8 Tips for LGBT People to Lower Holiday Stress
Feeling stressed and/or depressed lately? You're not alone. The holiday season is reported to be "problematic" for about forty-five percent of the general population, and there may be added concerns for LGBTIQ persons. There is often so much pressu...
In Sickness and in Health
I've never been prouder to live in Washington, D.C. than this week when the DC Council voted to recognize same-sex marriages. Come next spring, D.C. will be this country's only major city in which marriage equality is the law, Congress' intervention ...
Bush\'s African Baby Boom
Time and again, I’ve written about how the disastrous consequences of the Bush administration’s HIV/AIDS policy agenda in Africa. Yes, Bush increased aid to Africa. Yes, the Bush administration’s global AIDS policy has been cited a...
Americans are getting fleeced
I've been sick these past two weeks, and, if you're sick in France, you have to get a note from your doctor. Part of deal when everyone's covered is that you don't get to just call in sick. I had the flu followed immediately by tracheitis. If I were...
What\'s missing from World AIDS Day
I've been sitting at my computer all morning, reading through the advocacy discussion on World AIDS Day. Usually on these kinds of commemoration days there is an overemphasis on quick internet activism- a Facebook status update is all I expect out of...
Today is World AIDS Day
As if I could ever forget them, ever, in my lifetime. The men, women, and children who died of AIDS over the course of this pandemic. Some were the men I was supposed to be growing old with right now. We should be having barbecues in the summer and ...
World AIDS Day: Remember the Children
Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has impacted many people we know and many communities of which we are part. Since I write a parenting blog, however, I want to highlight some recent statistics about AIDS and children. The numbers, of course, don't captu...
World AIDS Day: Remember When It Used To Be Important?
I do. I remember December 1st as a day when people gathered in terror and grief with candles and tears listening to words that couldn't begin to touch the pain and anger and sadness. I remember when it was a time for all kinds of people to gather ...
PhRMA Report: 97 Treatments in Development for HIV
Don't get me wrong. I'm grateful, really I am. I routinely swallow pharmaceuticals that keep me alive (and cost over $2300.00 a month)-and because of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), I don't pay full price for these meds. I know that if I'd ...
Victory Garden: Celery and Season\'s Greetings
With Thanksgiving is almost upon us, not to mention Christmas and New Year's, it's time for the final racking of brains over which stuffing recipe to choose. Every LGBT person I know in L.A. is planning on forgetting the economic and political crisi...
Cha-Ching! The Insurance Companies Win?
So lemme see if I have this right... women are to wait until they are 50 for a mammogram, till 21 to have a pap smear, and all the research that showed otherwise is in the toilet? Do you hear the wheels of the insurance industry crushing women's bon...
If S/he Were Positive, Would You Stay?
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