NYC "False Arrests" & White Gay Innocence

NOTE: I have made some changes to this entry based on some feedback I got from Duncan Osborne, reporter for Gay City News. Gay City News, a NYC-focused weekly newspaper that focuses on the LGBT community, recently published a series … Continue reading read more »

Black Gay To Serve on Obama Policy Council on Faith-Based Initiatives

From Gay Politics.com--Fred Davie, the openly gay president of Public/Private Ventures, has been named to serve on President Barack Obama’s Policy Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Davie will work to provide objective, nonpartisan advice to the president on a … 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 »

2008: Year of the Black Queer!

2008 is the year of the Black Queer! OK. That sounds really cheesy. But I was thinking about what my end of year blog entry would be, and while watching the finale of the Keyshia Cole reality show on BET, … Continue reading read more »

315 Palestinians Dead: In the Name of What?

Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister on Meet The Press: “We are targeting Hamas, we are not looking for civilians to kill more than that. …We are trying to avoid any civil casualty…We are trying to make all the effort in … Continue reading read more »

Gender-based Violence: Three Stories

In the past several days there have been three stories that have been very disturbing to me, separately, and all as a result of the proximity in time-at least as news stories. This week, the three NYPD officers were all … Continue reading read more »

New Study: 95% of HIV Positive Don't Transmit HIV

Even though we’ve talked over the last year about the new HIV infections rate (incidence) in 2006, I haven’t given any thought to the issue of transmission-how many people actually transmit HIV to an HIV negative person every year? And … Continue reading read more »

World AIDS Day: We're Still Living With AIDS

(originally written for the NGLTF Policy Institute) December 1, 2008 8:40 am Today, many of us will dust off those red ribbons, and “remember” to remember the people who we’ve lost, and who are currently living with HIV/AIDS. Some of … Continue reading read more »

How I Feel Right Now

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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 »