New Study Shows Black Gay Men Think Masculine Men are Less Likely to Have HIV

Are we the kind of boys/men we want? According to a new study by  John’s Hopkins University, the answer is no. The new study, conducted as a series of interviews with 35 young/teen Black men who have sex with men … Continue reading read more »

Obama Budget for HIV/AIDS Show Increases; Republicans Plan Cuts

Today the White House Office on National AIDS Policy hosted a conference call on the Administration’s budget request–what’s in it for people living with HIV and/or for the LGBT community. While we’ve heard in the press that the new budget … Continue reading read more »

Selling AIDS: Wiretap Mag On HIV Prevention Messaging

I recently met the author of this new piece on Wiretap Magazine called “Selling Ourselves: Questioning HIV Prevention Campaigns,” Kirk Grisham, through mutual friends and he’s a kindred spirit in trying to really push against all of the assumed narratives … Continue reading read more »

RIP: Shelton Jackson

I met Shelton once or twice. He was definitely someone we’ve lost too soon, at age 31 to complications from AIDS. He was featured a few year’s ago on The Body.com. Here’s a letter from one of his co-workers at … Continue reading read more »

Housing Works Update: Where Are All the Black Gay Men?

This article from Housing Works’ Weekly Update raises similar issues I raised in my op-ed for The Defenders Online about HIV/AIDS in the Black community, and the silence around Black gay men. Two weeks ago individuals and organizations across the … Continue reading read more »

Silence is KIlling Black Gays as Much as HIV

From The Defenders Online (the blog of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund). …28 years into the AIDS epidemic, that silence that once protected us, is now killing us. As we near Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7th, all sorts … Continue reading read more »

My Plenary Remarks at Creating Change

Hey folks, sorry  I been gone so long, but I was in Denver al last week for the 21st annual Creating Change conference, this year in Denver. Bilerico.com just published the speech I delivered at the HIV/AIDS plenary at Creating … Continue reading read more »

Young Black Gays Debate Homophobia in Hip-Hop

I founs this duo online who produce the “LesMan Show” and I am in love with smart young Black gay men producing media and trying to think thru some things. In this case, ‘Lil Wayne’s homophobic lyrics:... read more »

Blacks, Gay Men At Highest Risk for HIV

The US Conference on AIDS has begun in Fort Lauderdale, unfortunately I couldn’t afford to go, but just as well because I am going to see my southern friends at Southerners on New Ground’s 15th Anniversary. But given the CDC’s … Continue reading read more »

Head of UNAIDS: "What Took the CDC So Long?"

From AIDS2008.com I just attended the press conference preceding the opening session of the IAC, which featured many of tonight’s speakers who will give (hopefully) rousing speeches about the state of AIDS, the movement, our successes and where we need … Continue reading read more »