Mike Tidmus

Thanks to Wayne Besen, the founder of Truth Wins Out, for the heads-up. It appears that SPLC-certified hate group founder and professional anti-gay douchnozzle, Dr Scott Lively, is soliciting email so he can promote his pivotal role in instigating Uganda‘s exterminate the gays legislation – a bill he’s, once again, aggressively pushing. Uganda Instigator Scott [...]

The secretive association known as The Family is undoubtedly America’s most dangerous evangelical Christian organization. Here’s the kind of murderous harm they’re up to with their mafia-like reach: The Family had already caused the jettison of one of Africa’s most successful anti-AIDS programs, Museveni came under pressure from America to use abstinence instead of condoms. [...]

Shenandoah Baptist Church’s Pastor Jeff Owens: Burn and shoot fags! (video: Joe Jervis at Vimeo) [ updated: see below ] According to Pastor Jeff Owens‘ own website: Pastor Owens is ‘a soulwinner, fervent preacher, and takes an uncompromising stand against sin; but the hallmark quality of Dr. Owens is his genuine love and concern for [...]

Here’s blogger Joe Jervis‘ take on ACT UP’s in-Obama’s-face anti-AIDS demo that took place yesterday — Thursday, May 13, 2010 — at the St Regis Hotel, New York, New York. Joe. My. God.: NYC: Eight Activists Arrested At Massive Protest Over Obama’s AIDS Funding joemygod.blogspot.com Eight AIDS activist were arrested in Manhattan late Wednesday night in a [...]

Towleroad: Eight arrested at massive rally in NYC as activists demand Obama fulfill global aids promises (photo: via Towleroad) “Obama is not my president. Obama is not your president. Obama does not like AIDS. Obama does not like gays. Now what are we going to do about it? Because we continue to sit on the [...]

Hoa Quach, writing at San Diego News Network, has a piece up on the truly pathetic, and probably criminal, state of HIV/AIDS care at a couple of flagship HIV service providers in San Diego County: Clinics, HIV services come under county scrutiny By Hoa Quach Allegations of misused federal funds, poor patient treatment, and a [...]

Big surprise! Not. In the early aughties, Uganda was considered a model African AIDS program. Then it all went South. Suddenly, you had well-funded Ugandan Christian pastors like Martin Ssempa, with links to pop-pastor Rick Warren, burning condoms in Jesus’ name and much worse. You had the American fundies during the Bush nightmare getting their [...]

Paving the Way: Harborside Medical Marijuana Center, Oakland California (video: HunCivLibUnion at YouTube)

Gary Bauer is a malicious little maggot who typifies everything that is wrong with America’s dishonest, hypocritical, gay-loathing so-called Christian reich. Here’s a quote from the former US Surgeon General under Ronald Reagan, Dr C Everett Koop: “Gary Bauer [Reagan's chief advisor on domestic policy] … was my nemesis in Washington because he kept me [...]

Activist: The times of Vito Russo is the documentary being made about Russo by Jeffrey Schwartz (video: automatpictures at YouTube) Automat Pictures: In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBT representation in the media. He went on to write The Celluloid Closet, [...]

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV – let’s get rational (video: TED Talks Director at YouTube) TED: Armed with bracing logic, wit and her “public-health nerd” glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations — [...]

“Friends have warned me to be careful of disclosing my HIV and not tell random people. We’ve all heard the countless horror stories of abuse, ignorance, violence … so what the hell is going on? Why do I have this nagging feeling the gay scene is losing touch with what’s really important – compassion for [...]

Off That (Rationalist Anthem), by Baba Brinkman (video: babasword at YouTube) Can’t get enough of that hip-hop skepticism about whack cures, AIDS denialism and dumb-ass superstitionism? Check out Baba Brinkman’s Natural Selection Rap and Brinkman’s astonishing performance at last December’s 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Hammersmith Apollo theater in London. (tips: [...]

The Historic (And Sometimes Insane) Health Care Debate In 10 Minutes (video: Ben Craw at The Huffington Post) The Huffington Post’s Ben Craw has assembled a somewhat disjointed but fascinating ten-minute montage of yesterday’s hullabaloo around healthcare reform. Jon Walker, at Firedoglake, points out some of what was left out in a post called: Signed, [...]

Kathleen Parker, writing at the Washington Post, has piece called Who will stand against Uganda’s brutal anti-gay law? Parker notes that amid the onslaught of rotten domestic news, the proposed Ugandan exterminate-they-gays bill might not get the attention it merits: Corrupt politicians count on the brevity of the American attention span, but certain items demand [...]