POZ August 1998
POZ August 1998
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Feature
Tales of the City
The bad girl of writing Roiphe clan, Emily Carter took a dark journey, but now at 37, she’s one of the generation’s brightest talents.
Inside the Issue
Ask Amelio
One early Sunday morning a reporter called to ask me questions about women with AIDS.
Petunias
Everyone who worked around the harbor knew he was in love with Ryan before he knew it himself
The Mere Future
"Sacred knowledge in the hands of fools destroys.” -- Upanishads
Record Time
Loneliness can be a full state or an empty one
Veronica
Alison had not slept right for days.
The American People
Two excerpts from his upcoming novel
Switching Channels
From couch potato to TV mogul
Takin’ It to the Streets
Prostitutes find a real gem in Ruby
Have A Ball
Sandra keeps a severe house
The Grass Is Greener
Brian Heater’s a little bit country?
S.O.S.
An experience I had a few months ago haunts me. I was in Thailand, where HIV transmission rates soar and the epidemic rages.
To the Editor
Through the Wire
Pass the AZT
Judging by the recent rash of apothecary-style restaurants and bars in London and New York City, protease envy is alive and kicking.
Deadly Dad
Man injects son with HIV
Stuck in the Riddle
KS risk rises with herpesvirus 8 infection
Survey Says...
Docs-to-be more willing to treat HIVers
Let’s Talk About Sex
Miss America Kate Shindle dares to
Name Game
Initials spell longevity
Vive la France!
French government pumps money into safer-sex porn
Gets His Goat
PWA locks horns with FDA
Going Downtown? Dam It
Taste-and-see latex approved for cunnilingus
Dr. Dementia
Murder defense fails
Voices Carry
Other Countries gave shelter to the epidemic’s black gay male writers
Obits
Billy Ray Blasingame, 55; Steve Smith, 38; Danny Ray Snook, Jr., 32
And Now For Something Entirely Fiction
It’s August, and time for a vacation from the virus.
Tita Aida
The Almighty: If the fever does not go away, fasten your seat belts, girlfriends, and wait for St. Jude to cross your legs.
Death Becomes Her
“Obscene artist” Karen Finley wants you to remember
In the Hot Seat
Advocates have access, but industry sets the agenda
Oh, Viagra!
An ode to daddy’s new little blue helper
You Can’t Take It With You
So he takes it to the limit
Clean and Sober
An addict with HIV kicks at the dark
Know Your Writes
As the fiction in this issue of POZ attests, there’s power in the written word—to enlighten or inspire, provoke or console.
Pills, Chills and Thrills
Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet
TB or not TB
Easier-to-take Treatments
Move It!
Remedies for constipation
Risky When Rushed
Head’s up before mixing viagra, poppers and protease
It’s All About the Journal
Write your way through trauma and triumph
Heart of the Matter
Abnormal blood fats may foretell heart trouble for PWAs on protease
Stink Balms
Full of gas? Give digestive enzymes a try
Angel and Insects
Imani Harrington says, “Pass the grasshopper skins, hold the PCP prophylaxis”
Pier 48
Barton Benes’ five-year correspondence with his Aunt Evelyn is surely one of modern art’
Say What
“People with AIDS have been using steroids therapeutically…"
