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N.Y. High School to Give Away Free Condoms After Prom
Administrators at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School in Brooklyn, New York, are continuing a national trend by making condoms available to students at the prom, MSNBC.com reports. The principal of the high school said that he wanted teens to have the option to take condoms as they leave. The prom night policy is in line with the school’s existing sex education initiatives, which distribute free condoms. Other New York City high schools allow students to request free condoms as part of HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
Thoughts? I want to stop by Bedford after work and shake this mans hand. I don’t care when and where you give teens condoms as long as they’re available. And they’re available here.
Monique Moree, Nick Rhoades and Robert Suttle speak out against HIV criminalization laws. These are incredible, inspiring, and courage people who are choosing to tell their stories about imprisonment, fear, acceptance and love. Watch it.
Click here to read more about their stories in the June 2012 issue of POZ.
Meet the Artist
When Avram Finkelstein decided to organize a small group of friends to talk about issues relating to HIV after his boyfriend died of AIDS, he never imagined it would lead to the creation of the most iconic slogan of the AIDS movement. The group came together starting in 1985 to discuss their fears and grief, but the conversations often turned to politics. People were dying, and the government wasn’t doing enough about it. To express their outrage, the group decided to create a series of political posters. The first design took them nearly a year. They scrutinized every aspect of the poster for optimal impact—from the exact color of the fuchsia triangle to the font choice (Gill Sans Bold Extra Condensed) to the words “Silence=Death.” Click here for more.
The Stigma Busting Event of the Century
What if sports athletes around the world went out and got an HIV test and then shared the results with the world?
Think of the oohs and aahs as the results came in. It would make HIV the talk of the town. And at the end of the day, a whole bunch of people would know their status and be able to take appropriate next steps. Click here for more.
Did you know: many countries around the world will deport, deny a visa, or even deny entry to a person living with HIV? Up until recently the States was one of those countries.
The Quilt in Prison
This coming July, when I stand in Washington, DC, in the presence of the enormous monument that is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, I will be looking for one panel in particular. That will be the panel I worked on while incarcerated in a high security federal prison for women in north Florida. Click here to read more.
Stories from the Quilt
The 47,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are a tangible demonstration of love and loss, life and determination. Here are seven stories from the quilt. Click here to read more.
Arsenio Scores Against AIDS
After 15 weeks, 16 celebrities and countless tears and catfights, we have finally reached the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice! But, before we can get a glimpse of the prerecorded final project, Donald Trump needs to hang up his phone call with Mayor Bloomberg and travel across town in the back of Mario Andretti’s sports car to the American Museum of Natural History where the luckiest New Yorkers get to watch the ultimate battle between Arsenio Hall and Clay Aiken interspersed with a reunion of all the celebrity contestants. Click here for more.
Requiem for the Queen of Disco
Last week, Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, died of cancer at the tragically early age of 63. Summer was a major diva and a musical icon of the ’70s, particularly to the gay community, which was finally coming into its own in this post-Stonewall era. Within minutes of the announcement of her death, my Facebook news feed began filling with obits, fan condolences and video clips of her songs. Most of the comments were laudatory, but a few people tempered their remarks by referencing the homophobic controversy she was embroiled in during the 1980s. Several of the gay news blogs I read posted items on her death; they also referenced the controversy. The discussions in the threads following those articles were long and often quite heated. It fascinated me that so many people felt so passionately about this incident from almost 30 years ago. Click here for more.
iStayHealthy
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