By: Andrew Shaughnessy, Manager of Public Policy PROMO Missouri @AndrewShag AIDS.gov states that certain body fluids from an HIV-positive person can transmit HIV. The body fluids mentioned are: Blood, Semen (cum), Pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), Recital fluids, Vaginal fluids, & Breast milk. Nowhere on this list does it mention saliva. Missouri laws, similar to several States, criminalizes behaviors that theContinue reading “HIV Transmission -> What We Know & Why States Are Getting It Wrong”
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The Bisexual Community and HIV/AIDS
As part of last fall’s National Black Justice Coalition Conference, “Out on the Hill”, I attended a White House meeting on Gay and Bisexual Men and HIV/AIDS. I came away from the meeting impressed by the level of concern that the White House and other partners in the fight to eradicate HIV/AID are consistently demonstrating.Continue reading “The Bisexual Community and HIV/AIDS”
The Bisexual History of HIV/AIDS, in Photos
“And I just want it known that there is someone out here remembering him with tenderness in my heart and tears in my eyes.” – Iris De La Cruz, Kool-AIDS On Ice 1981 Dr. David Lourea, a co-director of The Bisexual Center (founded in 1976), was also a pioneer in the fight to end HIV/AIDS.Continue reading “The Bisexual History of HIV/AIDS, in Photos”
LGBT Wellness Roundup: October 5
As published on Huffington Post’s new LGBT Wellness blog, see original at: http://ow.ly/DhVNO Each week HuffPost Gay Voices, in a partnership with bloggers Liz Margolies and Scout, brings you a round up of some of the biggest LGBT wellness stories from the past seven days. For more LGBT Wellness, visit our page dedicated to the topic here. TheContinue reading “LGBT Wellness Roundup: October 5”
New Tips From Former Smokers Ad Features Effects of Tobacco & HIV
Felecia King Project Specialist The Network for LGBT Health Equity This week, the CDC launched the next phase of the Tips From Former Smokers Campaign, and this time they are tackling the issue of tobacco and HIV. The ad features Brian, who smoked for 30 years, and suffered aContinue reading “New Tips From Former Smokers Ad Features Effects of Tobacco & HIV”
New Study Looks at Smoking Cessation among People with HIV
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. What makes smoking cessation successful among people living with HIV? That was the question posed at an event last week at the American Legacy FoundationContinue reading “New Study Looks at Smoking Cessation among People with HIV”
I Did It: Lunch With a Total Stranger
Liz Margolies, L.C.S.W. Founder and Executive Director, National LGBT Cancer Network As published on Huffington Post’s new LGBT Wellness blog, see original at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-margolies-lcsw/i-did-it-lunch-with-a-total-stranger_b_5090289.html When a white, atheist psychotherapist has lunch with the founder of Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM), they each get food for thought. We met by email when someone forwardedContinue reading “I Did It: Lunch With a Total Stranger”
“Home-Queer-Home” Rural Organizing
By Alex Aldana Blogging Scholarship Recipient Recap on Saturday’s SONG Rural Organizing workshop A wrong turn down the second floor, in the hopes I could find the nearest wash room, and listening to the echoes of vivid voices on this particular room,, made me forget about my personal deeds in the toilet to whatContinue reading ““Home-Queer-Home” Rural Organizing”
Respect
by e.shor The discussion of HIV has “traditionally” been centered around gay men in the LGBTQI community, but in the last ten years we have found more information on the intersections of HIV with communities of color, transgender folks (mostly transgender women, but not exclusively), and people over the age of 50. I mention theseContinue reading “Respect”
HHS Tobacco Strategic Plan Launch: Eyewitness Account & LGBT Inclusion Details
by Scout Director of National LGBT Tobacco Control Network Reporting from George Washington University Auditorium Launch of the HHS Tobacco Strategic Plan Houston We Have An Easy-to-Read Liftoff As your intrepid guy about town, I zipped down to DC to attend the live launch of the first-ever HHS Tobacco ControlContinue reading “HHS Tobacco Strategic Plan Launch: Eyewitness Account & LGBT Inclusion Details”
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