A Very Belated Hivster Christmas

Nothing completes the holiday season like good music. We here at Hivster wish you all the best for the coming New Year! Our gift to you is this little compilation. Read More  Read More

Thank you Hivsters! Happy New Year. Let’s rock it in 2012!

  I just want to wholeheartedly thank all of you for your help creating something, fresh, new and unique. Your all FUCKING winners in my book! Read More  Read More

A boy can hope.

I’ve wished this for quite awhile and have heard this story brought up numerous times. Who know? If it does happen I know us Dem’s would have a nice, lengthy stay in the White House. Not to say we won’t already, I can just see a good 8 years after Obama’s re-election. This is my 2012 wish, please pray/meditate/whatever you do, and make this happen for me. I would be the happiest boy alive! Read More  Read More

Mom.

The holiday’s always bring out the worst in me. At the worst times. It’s 3:18am and I need to write. My mom passed away 12 years ago July at 37. Every year about this time I fall apart. Luckily, I have a place to get it all out, here. Christmas 1993, Connye, my mom gave me a journal so we could write each other. I want. No, I need to share it with whoever will reading this and I’m obliged to you for suffering through my pain. Read More  Read More

Comparing Apples to Assholes: Rick Perry’s Desperation

Perhaps as a queer or queer-affirmative person, you’ve been feeling like me - ignored at the start of the 2012 election cycle. Sure, Michelle Bachman’s “hey gurl” husband provided a moment of pathetic tragi-comedy befitting a Samuel Beckett play. Or, maybe you’re teaching logical fallacies in a logic class and you were thinking to yourself, “gosh, I wish I had a contemporary example of a false analogy or a faulty comparison to show... Read More

Interview with Dean Hamer, Producer, Directorm and Director of Photography for Out in the Silence.

Scientist turned filmmaker Dean Hamer joined the journalism field after being invited to discuss his research on AIDS, human sexuality, and behavior genetics on numerous television news shows. He set out to communicate complex scientific and social ideas through compelling documentaries. Read More  Read More

Depressives vs. Alcoholics (and the bi-polars don’t count) pt. 3

III. I wake up to bright lights shining in my face. I see nurse Ratchet standing at the door. “C’mon, let’s go. PT in ten minutes.” She states rather curtly. “What?” I question rather groggily. I rub my eyes and look out the window. It is dark outside. The soft round floods of orange beneath the outdoor lamps are barely enough to cut through the darkness. “What time is it?” I ask, looking back at her. “Oh four hundred. Put these on.” She holds out a pair... Read More

MTV’s Staying Alive + HIVSTER

I found out I was positive March of 2010. I got a call on my cell in between classes from my doctors office, “I needed to come to their office as soon as possible, to speak with Dr. Smith.” Instead of waiting the day out, I called my friend Mario and asked if he’d take me up there. Read More  Read More

Depressives vs. Alcoholics (and the bi-polars don’t count) pt. 2

II. “I should have waited until Monday.” I mutter to myself while I stare out the window. I am not sure how much time has passed, but I can see soldiers heading home for the day. Shifts are over. “Must be 5 o’clock.” I continue muttering. This room is disturbingly quiet – except for the air conditioner’s motor and the loud click of the seconds hand on the mounted clock. I might have been feeling confused, frustrated, or annoyed recently, but this room feels like... Read More

REMEMBER.

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