POZ June 2000
POZ June 2000
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Friend of Tinky
Brett Beasley wrote letters, made calls, even posed nude to get his cousin Jerry Fallwell’s attention. No dice.
Inside the Issue
Brothers’ Keeper
The Kansas City Star confirmed what gay Catholics have known for years -- yes, Virginia, priests are living with AIDS.
The New AIDS Look
Sick of singing the lipodystrophy blues but don’t want to stop the drugs?
Hate Thy Neighbor
The Christian right’s attack on HIVers has gone from splashy media blitzes to quiet state-level lobbying.
Publisher’s Letter
I was saved when I was 12.
Mailbox
Emily Carter’s words about depression were so very true to me (“Woman on the Verge,” March 2000).
Death Of A Diva
Ofra Haza 1957-2000
Israel’s Madonna
Although Ofra Haza had released many albums in Israel during the first half of the 1980s, her international success story begins with...
Catching Up With...
(POZ December 1994/January 1995)
Big Prison Break
Three years ago, in Shumate v. Wilson, a California court ruled that HIV treatment and other medical care in two of the state’s women’s...
NEG/POS
A doctor in Loudon County, Virginia, stole painkillers and syringes—and then returned them, used, for patients.
The Maine Event
In February, Maine became the first in the union to receive a federal waiver allowing Medicaid coverage of asymptomatic HIVers.
Say What?
“What if somebody [with HIV] needs the restroom, or spits, or gets into a fight?”
Shout Out
“When you experience your own mortality and your own fragility, then I think something opens in you.”
Everybody’s Business
Wall Street and people with HIV often make better enemies than friends.
Bookmark This
We asked two executive directors from different- as-night-and-day AIDS orgs for their fave websites.
Family Portrait, With Fidel
My hotel room’s balcony affords a view of the park, dotted with Elián Gonzáles posters fading in the harsh sun.
On Making A Hard Sell
Steve Mare keeps The File in his desk.
The Riddle Of Limerick
I’m so big that if I run out of condoms, I have to use a rubbish bag,” a six-foot-something student proudly proclaimed in my first HIV...
Winter White
Belle of letters Edmund White talks to Editor in Chief Walter Armstrong about his new novel, The Married Man.
Stay On Course
Dave Gilden on the return of the HIV dissidents: Don’t let it divert us from our destination— immune-based drug research.
Shattered!
Jane’s simple; Camille’s complex. Both are in trouble. Emily Carter reflects on two tales of adult abuse.
Helping Hands
The night after a Reiki session, one HIVer fell asleep without his usual pain meds for neuropathy.
Smoke Alarm
A new study by researchers at Ohio State University shows that smoking-induced emphysema is occurring at strikingly higher rates in HIVers.
Mixed Messages
What’s in store for you if after starting HAART, your viral load goes down but your CD4 cells don’t rise, or your CD4s rise...
PEP Rally
Post-exposure prophylaxis just might reduce the risk of infection, but counseling is crucial.
Herb Of The Month
Ginkgo Biloba
Traveling The Light
Pack up your troubles—and a few must-haves—for those changes in latitude and attitude.
Comfort Zone
Liquid ddI changed my life!
E-Mail Bonding
There are some lists you may want to get on—for HIV info and support.
What Big Enzymes You Have
Heart attack? Drug reaction? Relax. Stephen Gendin’s Popeye-size CPK just means he’s been hitting the gym.
Next Up?
The lowdown of what’s in the pipeline
Hot Off the Stress
Women with the double whammy of HIV and recurrent genital herpes have been known to roll their eyes when advised to avoid stress.
6.30.89: Art Throb
Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in March 1989. He was 42.
Have HIV, Will Travel
Getting away from it all takes some pre-vacation pains.
