POZ February 1999
POZ February 1999
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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They Shoot Barebackers, Don’t They?
Tony Valenzuela is AIDS activism’s most misunderstood man.
Inside the Issue
A Ride on the Wild Side
An HIV negative prevention activist goes through the latex looking glass to discover who’s doing it raw, and why
Secrets & Lies
Telling kids they have HIV is a parent’s nightmare.
Brain Drain
For those with nasty neurologic infection PML, the news is hope.
All in the Family
Photographer Steve Hart finds love and despair in the South Bronx
Is Stoning Next?
Judge orders hustler to air HIV on TV
Tee’d Off
School nixes safe-sex shirt
Say What
“Kids Innocent Victims in AIDS Fight.”
Heart to HAART
How to find love in an epidemic
S.O.S.
“Safer Barebacking” is in the grassroots, take-charge-of-your-own-life tradition pioneered by Michael Callen.
To the Editor
The November 1998 Sick and Tired column by Stephen Gendin was revolting (“Stop the World, I Want to Get Off”).
POZarazzi: Stardust Memories
Movers, shakers and troublemakers
The Stiles Files
For the past year, POZ has tracked the shoddy treatment of prisoners with HIV in the Lone Star State.
You’ve Got Mail!
E-mail junkies short-circuited last fall when the following live-wire hit the Net, supplying ammo to the anti-druggie brigades.
Ad of the Month: Oh, Good Lords!
“Making love is a beautiful thing. Dying for it is stupid, stupid, stupid,” said actress and former porn queen Traci Lords in an interview...
Cry Cannabis
Oakland draws a line in the sand
An Affair to Remember
...for all the wrong reasons
Techno Truth
Adherence is easier said than done.
POZ Planet: Vital Stats
Just in time for World AIDS Day, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization issued a grim report on the global epidemic in 1998.
Behind the Eight Ball
CD8 cells take center stage as research aims for remission
Voter Fraud
The new “nice” Congress looks even nastier than Newt’s
Show & Tell
Sometimes Cupid shoots an arrow straight to our hearts and other times he kicks us right in the ass.
POZ Picks
After weeks of plotting, you’ve finally lured that special valentine into your love den. Mazel tov!
Northern Disclosure
Canadian Supreme Court upholds criminalizing HIVers for consensual sex.
The Wizard of Roz
Rosalind Moore-Bey could save souls.
Obits
Rick Hanenburg, who died of AIDS August 13 in Atlanta, “was a unique man—well-bred, well-educated and well-pierced."
Ever Laughter
Our hemo stud is looking for Drew love on Cupid’s Day
A River Ran Through Him
A tale of two columnists
One Toke Over the Line
Many PWAs struggle with the nausea, vomiting and suppressed appetite sparked by certain AIDS drugs or HIV progression itself.
Talk Therapy
Come to terms with treatment strategies
New Drug Watch
A new nuke, a gen-two protease and more
The Party’s Still On
Our best guess is that the word heard is likely to be control, not cure.
The “No Nukes” Movement
In studies to date, these problems with nuke cross-resistance have only been seen in 1 percent or 2 percent of participants.
Vits Help the Rits Go Down
If you use ritonavir (Norvir), taking vitamins may increase your ability to tolerate the drug.
Female Trouble
A new study adds to the mounting evidence that when it comes to the biology of HIV, sex matters.
Not My Type
Stephen Gendin’s genotypic and phenotypic tests show resistance to most HIV meds.
Where to Find It
Want to hear more from Tony Valenzuela?
Big Daddy
Michael Kearns left Hollywood, embraced fatherhood and never looked back.
Aunt Evelyn’s Letters
New Yorker Barton Benes saved thousands of letters that his Aunt Evelyn wrote during their daily correspondence in the ’70s.
Verse: Eulogy for Brad
I dreamed you hadn’t died. I saw you freckled and pale (I guess it was the Irish in your blood).
