Hivster in the New York Times.

Back in October the New York Time’s profiled me, my activism work and Hivster.com. “BRAD CRELIA was rushing around the vast media room at an international AIDS conference last summer in Washington, interviewing people for a series of articles on Hivster.com, a Web magazine he founded for people who are HIV positive. The ease with which he moved through the crowd made... Read More

How Capitalism Will Kill Us All

I’m Back. Brace Yourself. I left Hivster some months ago, and my. What months they have been. Since my split with Hivster, I moved back from Eugene to Seattle. Occupy Wall Street– and all the controversies and educational It’s not just my hair that’s changed. opportunities that sprang up with it– happened, and I began working with Occupy Seattle in... Read More

Reflection, Resistance, and the Art of Giving Thanks

Have your pie and eat it too. Thanksgiving. Hrm. So in recent weeks I’ve gotten a lot of flack for my political musings. Though I didn’t write about the election here on Hivster, this November and the seemingly endless months that preceded it were a source of long, drawn-out consternation for me. As the country tried to decide between the devil we don’t know and... Read More

Happy Veteran’s Day

Broke? Stuck at home? Join the Army! See the world!  God, I was stupid at 18. A lackluster high schooler– I was one of those “He’s just so smart but never applies himself!!!” students– I ended my time in K-12 by taking a fabulous month-long trip to Europe and then sitting around my sister’s house wondering what I would do with my life. I didn’t... Read More

I Was Wrong About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Getting Fired, Giving Some Interviews, Taking Action Before Occupy and all its myriad (and at times catastrophic) effects on my life, I was a one-trick pony of sorts. My focus in activism was a narrow one, born from personal experience and thrust onto the national stage. In 2004, after one tour in Iraq and staring another one in the face, I made a decision to come out of the closet.... Read More

Targeted

Acceptance? Tolerance? Assimilation? This is an unusual time to be LGBT or queer identified. The queer liberation movement, started as a vilified and victimized movement of people coming together to fight for their right to live and love, appears to have finally reached the mainstream in undeniable ways. Where at one time the idea of politicians taking up the cause of marriage equality... Read More

Sally Ride And The Glass Closet: Did She Break It Soon Enough?

Shattering Ceilings, Even In Death In the past week, a quiet announcement of an astronaut’s death brought the world a first: Sally Ride, once lauded as the first American woman in space, has also been illuminated in her obituary as the first astronaut to have been publicly outed as having a same-sex relationship. Read More  Read More

It Took 22 Years And We Still Haven’t Gotten It Right.

The theme of the first International AIDS Conference in the United States in 22 years is “Turning the Tide Together”, which is somewhat fitting–23,000 delegates from 195 countries have gathered in our nations capitol to “begin the march towards the end of the AIDS epidemic”.  Leading scientists, policymakers and advocates are making this march noticeably... Read More

13 Arrested In DC During International HIV/AIDS Conference

As Brad covers the excitement of the International HIV/AIDS conference, now in Washington DC after a long American hiatus due to travel bans on those with HIV, others outside of the conference have taken the opportunity of its historic return in order to protest on behalf of the plight of HIV patients here at home. Read More  Read More

‘I’m Still Standing and I Shouldn’t Be Here Today’: Elton John at The International AIDS Conference

Sir Elton John at The International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC I don’t think a HIV/AIDS conference would be complete without an address from Sir Elton John.  John, who started The Elton John AIDS Foundation nearly 20 years ago, spoke passionately about his battle with drugs and alcohol and the self-destructive lifestyle he led before he became sober 22 years ago.... Read More