I Was Wrong About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Monday, April 16, 2012
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. I marched into my Commanding Officer’s office and delivered a carefully prepared statement (already vetted by a lawyer) to his desk declaring: “I will return to serve in Iraq but I will do so as an openly...
India Proposes Strict Laws to Prevent HIV Bias
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Legislators in India have proposed new laws preventing discrimination on the basis of one’s serostatus: The HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Bill says a person whose spoken or written words may lead to hostility or hatred against an HIV-positive person could go to jail for two years. The new rules will outlaw not only incitements to violence against HIV-positive individuals, but also workplace discrimination. If it passes, employers would be outlawed from enforcing HIV testing before hiring. In 2006 it was estimated almost 6 million people were living in HIV in India, so a large population...
The Lulz Continue…
Saturday, April 14, 2012
It appears that the hacking of National Organization for Marriage continues, as Brian Brown’s Twitter account has been hijacked: As of yet no-one has claimed credit for the hilarious attacks on NOM’s online presence. Maybe someone who chooses to remain Anonymous? Read More
A Nightmare For NOMTweets
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Advocates for marriage equality woke up this morning to be delighted by a hilarious scandal enveloping a hate group’s online persona: National Organization for Marriage has been hacked. It started with a Tweet from the NOMTweets Twitter account apologizing for a scandal in which it became public they had attempted a wedge between gays and the black community: Then their Facebook page put up a different apology: Hmmm. What gives? Have Brian Brown and Co. finally come around? Or have they been hacked? LGBT blogs started to take notice, with Towleroad reporting a blog post going up...
Porn Is Safe… For Now.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Porn-makers nationwide can breathe a sigh of relief: America’s latest wanna-be savior has dropped out of the Republican Party Presidential race: The presidential campaign of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) came to an end today at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. With his family behind him on stage, Santorum said he made the decision with his family in recent days. “We made a decision over the weekend that, while this pres race for us is over,” he said, announcing that he is suspending his campaign, “we are not done fighting.” Read More
How Capitalism Will Kill Us All
Monday, April 9, 2012
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 their media team. Taking twelve credits and then Occupying full-time has basically been the focus of my life for the past six months. Brad asked me to start writing for him again, and along with re-establishing my column, he...
New Music to Spring You into Summer
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Music has the uncanny ability to define times. Everyone remembers the first time they heard their favorite song. Well, we hope these eight albums paint vivid memories for your summer months. Read More
Sometimes you have to tell yourself to STFU and move on.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Over the course of two years, most of my writing dealt with loss, addiction, depression and learning to cope with living with HIV. These are important issues and every piece published meant a lot for me. PersonallyI hopefully helped someone going through a similar situation and my pieces fit our mission of ”[Giving] voice to anyone living with or affected by HIV… [believing]that living life to the fullest is essential to everyone, especially those who are HIV+.” Read More
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New Music to Spring You into Summer
Music has the uncanny ability to define times. Everyone remembers the first time they heard their favorite song. Well, we hope these eight albums paint vivid memories for your summer months. Read More Read More
Culture
These Emo Kids DO Have Something To Cry About.
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Some truly upsetting news coming out of Iraq this week where groups “alternative” kids are been singled out for being “emo” and literally beaten and stoned TO DEATH.
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Sometimes you have to tell yourself to STFU and move on.
Over the course of two years, most of my writing dealt with loss, addiction, depression and learning to cope with living with HIV. These are important issues and every piece published meant a lot for me. PersonallyI hopefully helped someone going through a similar situation and my pieces fit our mission of ”[Giving] voice to anyone [...]
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