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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 and other reforms for gay people seemed impossible, the Democratic National Convention has confirmed... 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 without many foreign sex-worker and drug-use activists; a group arguably the most affected and... 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.  He shouldn’t be here today.  Read More  Read More

Turning The Tide: The beginning of the end at XIX AIDS International 2012

A quick update: The conference is in full swing and the mood is definetely celebratory–networking; workshops; press conferences and panels. It’s amazing the International HIV/AIDS conference hasn’t been in the United States since 1992 and I think its return and the recent HIV travel ban being squashed adds to positive atmosphere here in DC .  One more quickie before I go back and check it all out : Met super Hivster,  Jamar Rogers, the amazingly... Read More

AIDS Memorial Quilt rain out surprise: amfAR’s LifeRide

amFAR LifeRide Cyclist with their panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt Brunch then the Nation Mall to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt. That was the plan but rainy weather shut it down. The nasty weather didn’t hamper the dedicated amFAR LifeRiders from traveling 1800 miles to gather on stage to read out the names of those lost over the last 30 years to  HIV/AIDS — and raising $115,000 to find a cure along the way. Read More  Read More

Hivster.com on Take Action News with David Shuster

Check out my talk with Daniel Marans, Executive Producer of Take Action News. We talk about the need to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS and the harm it causes, despite the major advances in survival and quality of life for people living with the disease in recent years. Also talk about opportunities to advocate for people with HIV/AIDS, including supporting a resolution in Congress that would make discrimination against people with HIV or AIDS illegal. Currently, many states have... Read More