Tag AIDS

HIV infection linked to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Published two days ago, this article confirms something I’ve suspected for quite some time. The article comes via ACT UP Philadelphia and John S James. James is a revered AIDS writer who has been publishing AIDS Treatment News since the early, early days of the epidemic. Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder ~ [...]

The low-down on Alveda, the black sheep of the King family

Salon.com’s War Room has a must-read on the radical religious right’s latest attention-ho anti-gay, anti-choice voice, (she’s not a real) Dr Alveda Beal King. King’s academic credentials have also raised eyebrows. She is regularly referred to as “Dr. Alveda King” in promotional material, although her doctorate is an honorary one, bestowed by St. Anselm College, [...]

Culture & Media Institute typist takes anti-Reagan blasphemer to task

Poor-Oppressed-Christian™ Matt Philbin, of the always hilarious Culture & Media Institute, thinks Saint Ronnie got shafted by Huffington Post columnist Mark Juddery in the post below. Philbin: This is how “liberal Hollywood reminds us in one brief web slideshow how the left is both condescending and intellectually dishonest.” Really? Philbin continues: Now excuse me y’all [...]

AIDS Healthcare Foundation hits Obama’s paltry domestic AIDS funding

Seeeeeeee… It’s not just Mike bitching about Obama’s National AIDS Scam. Thankfully, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been following along (for decades now). AHF: “The additional $5 million being offered today is clearly far less than the $126 million that AIDS advocates have agreed upon as the minimum amount necessary to clear the current waiting [...]

Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy under fire again

Karen Ocamb has a must-read on the con job that President Obama is trying to pass off as a National AIDS Strategy. That long-overdue policy, unveiled with mass quantities of pomp and circumstance last month, could have been jotted down on a cocktail napkin by a stoned 12th grader in about five minutes. As an [...]

Target Corp’s right-wing gubernatorial candidate targeted Minnesota AIDS Project funding

Following up on Target’s donation to a rabidly anti-gay Minnesota candidate for governor, we learn that candidate Tom Emmer tried to gut HIV/AIDS funding in the state because he was squeamish about the nature of the HIV prevention materials. Candidate for Minn. Gov. Wanted to End HIV Funding ~ POZ Tom Emmer — the Republican [...]

Iowa GOP candidate says gays should be killed, AIDS was sent by his god

Another Bible-banging Republican bigot goes rogue and is rewarded with a dainty wrist-slap from an Iowa Republican Party official. Candidate Jeremy Walters: “The Holy Bible say if your ‘GAY’ homosexual they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. This tells me alot so should we kill them NO. They Need [...]

The Quotable ERV

“WARBLEGARBLE! VAUGHN WALKER IS A HOMO!!!! HES OPENLY HOMO!!! WARBLEGARBLE ARMAGEDDON!!! WARBLEGARBLE CHRISTIANS ARE GOING TO BE ROUNDED UP!!!! WARBLEGARBLE I BET NOW THEYRE GONNA LET FAGS IN THE MILITARY!!!! WARBLEGARBLE THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION!!! WALKER HATES CHRISTIANITY!!! WARBLEGARBLE THE ACLU IS SUPPORTING THIS AND THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!!! TOWEL HEADS KILL HOMOS STUPID [...]

Countering the latest homophobic slurs from the AFA’s Bryan Fischer

Bryan ‘Hitler Liked His Gays Butch’ Fischer, has hopped back up on his the gays are unfit to hold public office soap box over at the American Family Association‘s Rightly Concerned blog. According to Fischer: “I have suggested on more than one occasion that a practicing homosexual should not serve in public office. This is [...]

Free Thinking: Lawrence M Krauss

“Surprisingly, the strongest reticence to speak out often comes from those who should be most worried about silence. Last May I attended a conference on science and public policy at which a representative of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a keynote address. When I questioned how he reconciled his own reasonable views about [...]

Cal state official urges Bristol-Myers Squibb to reduce cost of front-line AIDS drug Reyataz, ADAPs at risk

Good news! California’s state controller, John Chiang, has urged Big Pharma leviathan Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) to lower the price of its front-line AIDS drug, Reyataz — one of the most expensive AIDS treatments currently on the market. It’s doubtful this would have happened if the veteran activists at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation had not been [...]

Ronald Reagan Day

California now has a Ronald Reagan Day. That’s disgusting. Conan the California AIDS Budget Destroyer did his little photo-op with Nancy Reagan today in Simi Valley. Reagan’s AIDS Legacy / Silence equals death San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate As America remembers the life of Ronald Reagan, it must never forget his shameful abdication of leadership in the [...]

AIDS Healthcare Foundation bans Bristol-Myers Squibb sales reps over pricing

Here’s how to hit back at Big Pharma’s unbridled greed. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has banned Bristol-Myers Squibb sales reps from its clinics because the pharmaceutical giant refuses to lower the cost of the key AIDS drug Reyataz to help America’s cash-strapped AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs (ADAP). AHF Bans BMS Drug Reps from Its Clinics [...]

Obama commits to fund global AIDS fight

It’s a shame the global fight against AIDS can’t be waged with the same low-cost lip service the Obama administration has committed to fighting AIDS on the home front. Obama Recommits to HIV at Vienna AIDS Conference www.poz.com President Barack Obama recommitted his administration to the fight against HIV at the XVIII International AIDS Conference [...]

Christwire: James Hartline, the HIV-positive ex-drug addict who speaks Bible prophecy

Oh. My. Dog! James Hartline, The HIV-Positive Ex-Drug Addict Who Speaks Bible ProphecyChristWire When the 700 Club seeks answers about the latest trends in radical homosexuality, who do they turn to? When World Net Daily wants insight into the cultural wars destroying the moral foundation of our nation, where do they go? When Peter LaBarbera, [...]