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Today Is World AIDS Day

December 1st, 2009

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day.  Today is a day about raising awareness of the continuing HIV/AIDS pandemic and also hold memorials for those who have died.
My first question is, well what’s going on locally.  Shamefully the Denver Post has zero articles on World AIDS Day up this morning as of the writing of [...]

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Denver DA to Charge Male Prostitute For Having Sex While Poz

November 11th, 2009

Back in July I posted about the law in CO as it relates to the sex lives of people with HIV.  Bottom line is that it’s a class 5 felony to prostitute yourself out if you’re poz and a class 6 felony to be a customer if you’re poz.  That’s pretty progressive compared to say, [...]

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Deconstructing Meth: An Experiential Workshop

November 5th, 2009

Local gay friendly church MCC of the Rockies is hosting a very special “experiential workshop” this Saturday which will allow attendees to have an open and honest dialogue about crystal meth.  The event is being facilitated by Joshua Love (pictured above) who is the MCC’s national director of Global HIV/AIDS Ministry.  The event “Deconstructing Meth” [...]

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Why Refusing To Sleep With Someone Who’s Honest About Their HIV+ Status Is Stupid

November 3rd, 2009

I’m negative and I’ve had sex on multiple occasions with people I know to be HIV+.
Frankly I would rather have sex with someone who knows they’re poz, is getting treatment, is healthy and is focused on protecting me than have sex with someone who doesn’t know their status and who doesn’t care about their partner.
Recently [...]

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Photos From Element’s Evening At Colorado AIDS Project Fundraiser Dance

October 14th, 2009

We’re on Facebook so feel free to add us.  We’ve also got more photos from last weekend’s fundaiser at EXDO on facebook.  Here’s a smattering of my favorites:

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Important Hearing On Medical Marijuana in CO Today

July 20th, 2009

Many gays with HIV/AIDS rely on medical marijuana as part of their treatment regimen to make life with the side effects of anti-virals more livable.  Today the Colorado Board of Health is having a hearing to determine if wording of Amendment 20 limits the number of patients a dispensary can serve. Specifically the [...]

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VICE Mag Interview With Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani

July 13th, 2009

[President Bush] was under a lot of pressure from the so-called “Christian Right”. This has always been a source of curiosity to me. I’ve never been able to understand that Christian thinking that somehow equates compassion with redemption. They think, “As long as it’s about innocents—mothers, victims, children, and people who have already been afflicted [...]

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Legality of Having Sex in CO Without Disclosing Your HIV Status

July 6th, 2009

This morning a popular Q&Q discussion thread on Connexion focused on not disclosing that you’re HIV+ before having sex.
And just now I received a story from the Michigan Messenger about a poz guy caught up in a public-bathroom sting who is actually in extra-deep legal shit because in Michigan it’s illegal to have sex without [...]

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Two Very Special Drag Shows Coming Up

May 20th, 2009

On Sunday May 24th Ginger Sexton is hosting a fundraiser for the Colorado AIDS Project featuring Ongina who came out as HIV+ on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Ginger BTW is participating in the online voting to be cast in season two of Drag Race.  Vote for her on RuPaul’s casting site here.
And on Friday May 29th another [...]

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