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HIV-Positive Wellness Can Be a Cooperative Push

HIV-Positive Wellness Can Be a Cooperative Push

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | It was a very adventurous time,” explained Jared Becker, co-founder of the New York Buyers’ Club. There was only a moment’s pause before George Carter, another co-founder added, “It was a desperate time.” The challenging period in question was the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the mid-1980s into the early ‘90s. [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Should We Forgive Bill Clinton?

Should We Forgive Bill Clinton?

BY DOUG IRELAND | So now, Bill Clinton told us this month in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, he’s against the Defense of Marriage Act he signed into law in 1996. We’re supposed to be grateful. But “the powerful odor of mendacity” (to borrow Tennessee Williams’ pungent phrase) has always hung over the ex-president, [...]

March 26, 20135 CommentsRead More

At LGBT Forum, Mayoral Rivals Hit Quinn on Sick Leave, Term Extension

At LGBT Forum, Mayoral Rivals Hit Quinn on Sick Leave, Term Extension

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The conventional wisdom is that Christine Quinn has the queer vote sewn up in the Democratic primary for mayor, but the crowd of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender voters at a March 20 debate let the City Council speaker know that they disapprove of some of her decisions. “I think in the [...]

March 21, 201318 CommentsRead More

Infant “Cured” of HIV Holds Promise for Other Newborns, Perhaps No One Else

Infant “Cured” of HIV Holds Promise for Other Newborns, Perhaps No One Else

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Doctors and researchers say they have cured a Mississippi infant born with HIV with an aggressive treatment regimen that began a day after birth. The triple-drug combination was continued for a year and a half until the mother stopped bringing the child in for treatment, according to the New York Times. When [...]

March 5, 20131 CommentRead More

Oldest Group of HIV-Positive Americans Bankrupt, Ending Operations

Oldest Group of HIV-Positive Americans Bankrupt, Ending Operations

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The National Association of People with AIDS, the largest and oldest membership advocacy group made up of Americans living with HIV/ AIDS –– who now number 1.2 million –– has ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy. “Leaving the stage is bittersweet: bitter, because NAPWA so wanted to be here to see the [...]

February 15, 2013No CommentRead More

City Steps Up Meningitis Alert Amidst Callen-Lorde Criticism

City Steps Up Meningitis Alert Amidst Callen-Lorde Criticism

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in addition to the 12 it reported on September 27, New York City’s health department expanded the target population for its meningitis vaccine campaign in a November 29 announcement. And the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, the Chelsea clinic that has vaccinated about 700 [...]

December 5, 20122 CommentsRead More

This Christmas, Support Our Community

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Last year at this time, our cover story at Gay City News was titled “How Do We Move the 97 Percent?” It wasn’t a piece about Occupy Wall Street. Instead, it explored the findings of the Movement Advancement Project’s (MAP) annual National LGBT Movement Report. According to that study, “Even an optimistic [...]

December 5, 2012No CommentRead More

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I was at this party the other day, when the people I’d sat down with decided I’d become inconvenient. They wanted to invite this other girl to go out with them, but not me, so what to do? Being awkward or just assholes, their solution was to suddenly ignore me. Pretend [...]

December 5, 2012No CommentRead More