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A Very Enduring Kiss

Twenty-one years after David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me gave voice to an era’s anger and passion, the blond, blue-eyed showman is still living with moxie.

On May 20 in New York City, the show will have a one-night, multi-actor revival to benefit Broadway Cares and The Sero Project, POZ founder Sean Strub’s campaign to turn back HIV criminalization laws throughout the United States. POZ talked with Drake, who’ll turn 50 in June, about the sudden fame he found with the show, the shame he felt around his own HIV infection in 1998, and how he has reclaimed his young, carefree spirit through a breezy new drag persona named Tawny.

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Screenings of Positive Women: Exposing Injustice and HIV is Not a Crime

Next Thursday, March 7, Positive Women: Exposing Injustice will be screened along with Sero Project’s short documentary, HIV is Not a Crime, with a panel discussion afterwards, at the SVA Theatre at 333 Eighth Avenue in New York.

Posted 2 months ago

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Uncle Poodle Presses Charges, Partner Sentenced to 5 Years

An Atlanta-based blog reports that Lee Thompson, better known as ‘Uncle Poodle’ on the ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’ has confirmed not only that he has tested positive for HIV antibodies, but that he pressed charges against his former boyfriend from whom he believes he acquired the virus.

Read more of Sean Strub’s blog… http://blogs.poz.com/sean/archives/2013/01/uncle_poodle_presses.html

Posted 4 months ago

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Treatment as Prevention: Not as Simple as It Sounds

For many of us, the concerns about “treatment as prevention” (using drugs before or after exposure to HIV to prevent infection by the virus as opposed to using drugs after infection to stop it from progressing) isn’t about whether or not it is effective on an individual basis in preventing HIV transmission. It is.

Read more of Sean Strub’s blog : http://blogs.poz.com/sean/archives/2012/11/treatment_as_prevention.html

Posted 6 months ago

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Sex and Justice Conference

There was an almost palpable longing for these related efforts to come together as a cohesive movement with a broader base. Maybe the time is right for that to happen.

Posted 7 months ago

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From Sean Strub’s POZ Blog: At a meeting in Oslo, Norway, this week, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé was characteristically frank in his comments prior to viewing my short film, HIV is Not a Crime, and hearing comments from Robert Suttle (who is featured in the film). Sidibé’s honesty is one reason why he is so widely respected.

“I was shocked, I am Executive Director (of UNAIDS), I am supposed to be very committed to all the human rights issue and trying to push this agenda… and I’m not even knowing a minimum of those unacceptable things that are happening around me. It was shocking for me and upsetting to hear the stories of Nick and Robert” said Mr. Sidibé.

Click here for more.

(Source: poz.com)

Posted 1 year ago

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Death Anus Ad from NYC Dept of Health

The New York City Department of Health’s “It’s Never Just HIV” advertising campaign, targeted to encourage HIV negative gay and bisexual men to use condoms, has prompted a conversation that is profoundly important and speaks directly to the heart of the problems with HIV prevention.

The ad features doleful, frightened or ashamed young men who are so attractive they look like characters from the television program Lost , set against a sound track appropriate for a horror film. The ad’s message is that HIV doesn’t exist in isolation; it also brings other serious health problems.

Click here to read Sean’s full blog entry.

Posted 2 years ago

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