Michael Cashman says LGB people who attack trans rights ‘learned nothing’ from the AIDS crisis
Lord Michael Cashman, one of the founders of LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall, has spoken out about the loss and anger he felt after watching Russell T Davies’ seminal Aids drama It’s a Sin. Comparing the stigma that gay men, lesbians and bisexual people faced in the 1980s to the treatment of transgender people today, Lord Cashman said that “loss…
I Lost All My Gay Role Models to AIDS—Be Grateful You Won’t Lose Yours
Respect your elders, because unlike mine, they’ll live long, healthy lives. Not long ago, a gay 20-something told me that, as a 54-year-old unmarried man, I had no business giving advice to members of his generation. Unlike him, my “failure” of being single and childless, and, by proxy, promiscuous and…
Donald Trump Pledges to End HIV/Aids Epidemic in America in States of Union Speech
Since his election, the president has dissolved the Office of National Aids Policy and dismissed the whole Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/Aids Donald Trump has made a pledge to end the HIV/Aids epidemic in America during the State of the Union speech. During his first two years in office, the…
Gay Nurse Films Hilarious Sound of Music Parody to Raise Money for HIV Research
This gay nurse is going to be riding 545 miles, alongside 3000 others, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. A gay nurse has come up with a genius way to help raise money for HIV research: parodying The Sound of Music. Otis Morgan, a 42-year-old nurse living in San…
For The First Time, The CDC Admitted That HIV Can’t Be Transmitted If You’re Undetectable
Nearly half of all HIV-positive people in the U.S. have undetectable viral loads. The Centers for Disease Control has finally admitted what activists and medical experts have been saying for years: People whose HIV loads are undetectable can’t transmit the virus. It might seem like a given, but as HIV…