Portland Mayor Sam Adam’s will not seek re-election.

Editor’s note: I’m pretty upset about this one, he’s genuinely a good guy and has been a good Mayor for Portland a city I love: check out our interview with the Mayor here and then onto his decision not to seek re-election. Read More  Read More

Positivelite: My new favorite interview.

I recently had the chance to chat with Bob Leahy of Positivelite.com and it turned out to be one of the best I’ve had in awhile. Of the interview Bob prefaces by stating: Hivster.com is PositiveLite’s hipper twin. Certainly the two share a similar focus. Bob Leahy gets to know Hivster Editor-at-Large Brad Crelia in this fascinating exchange about how to reach both hip and not so hip readers, I certainly agree and hope you’ve had a chance to read another Positivelite... Read More

Raising Brad

Many thanks to my Dad, Matt Spaur for writing this piece for Hivster. I love you and am truly grateful for all you’ve done for me and did for mom. I was a bitch to deal with, sorry for those years of hell. Brad- Read More  Read More

Blood And Ink: HIV And Tattooing

Blood And Ink: HIV And Tattooing Michael Burtch: “If there is one thing I hate, it’s people wearing Ed Hardy Wear with no visible tattoos. And if there is one question I’ve come to loath, it’s “What do your tattoos mean?”” Read More  Read More

What do Al Franken and Chuck Norris have in common?

You don’t fuck with ‘em. Watch Al Franken get all ninja on this witness (with rhetoric and logic, naturally). Read More  Read More

Joplin, Missouri: Finding Adam

First, I should really apologize. I’ve been very neglectful both of my blog and my column here at Hivster. While I normally am obsessed with the news and with social justice in general, recent events have taken over my life and turned it upside down. You see, I’m in Joplin today, writing this column in a house just a block from the devastation caused by the EF-5 tornado that struck just weeks ago, cutting a swath of destruction through the town. I never thought... Read More

Relax, relax. Maybe Bachmann’s husband thinks we all play rugby? Thanks #asshole.

This story’s rich. No, not as in cash money, but rather “rich” with irony and hypocrisy. Even though it’s been public knowledge for-ever, it’s just now being picked up by the “lame-stream” media (remember how liberal they are?). Thus, I doubt we’ve heard the last of it. So just how deep will the rabbit hole go? Pretty fucking deep. But here’s what we know for sure as of now: Michelle Bachmann’s got a gay son who was... Read More

When I grow up; my absence from Hivster.

It’s 4am and I’m sitting on my friends Gary’s stoop in San Francisco smoking a cigarette. I couldn’t sleep and after three hours of just laying in the dark I decided I needed to get some stuff off my chest. The beginning’s pretty hard for me; I don’t really know where to start, but here goes. I’m a fuck-up, have been for a long time. Living that way messes everything up and just blends together into one big pile of shit right where my... Read More

Whore, schmore. At least I can vote. I think…?

More proof positive, Keith Olbermann’s return to television couldn’t have happened a day too soon. Enjoy this Friday frolic in hypocrisy courtesy of Olbermann’s Worst Persons segment (that is, if you can call downloading copyrighted material and slicing it up “courtesy of…”). Meet Republican Ohio State Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, the man behind the Ohio bill that requires people show their driver’s licenses before they can vote. Which seems... Read More

Hivster’s interview w/ Seattle’s Mayor Mike McGinn

When I first got down to 4th avenue for the Seattle Gay Pride Parade, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn had just been introduced and was speaking to the thousands of people packing the downtown streets about The Stonewall riots that were 42 years ago this week. The Mayor talked about how back then Seattle wasn’t much different than New York. He continued by talking about the historic marriage equality bill passed Friday in New York. While doing so, he began unbuttoning his shirt... Read More