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  • 8 Tips for LGBT People to Lower Holiday Stress

    Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 16:30 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 17:30 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 16:30 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 13:00 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 17:00 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 16:00 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 15:00 in health issues

    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?

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 13:00 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 13:00 in health issues

    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

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 14:00 in health issues

    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?

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 16:30 in health issues

    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?

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:00 in health issues

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