POZ May 2001
POZ May 2001
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
Diagnosing In The Dark
A complex mix of symptoms and a shrinking number of aids physicians can add up to an OI (opportunistic infection) ID crapshoot.
Inside the Issue
The Gospel According To St. Rufus
The AIDS community is shaken by a new federal report that 30 percent of twentysomething black gay men have HIV.
What the World Needs Now
South African HIVers counter doomsday images with profiles in radical courage. Gregg Bordowitz reports.
OI Vey!
With their brave new immune systems, HAART-takers are eager to toss their prevention pills. Bob Lederer reports that the sky isn’t falling.
Assume the Position
In late June, San Francisco usually looks like the queer Mecca everyone always calls it.
Catching Up With: Justin LiGreci
(POZ September 1998)
Free to Be...
(S)he’s in there, men, your inner gender illusionist, just waiting to be unleashed.
The Art of the Matter
Ellis Eisner paints the days of HIVers by numbers
I Just Called To Say...
Doug Allen meets, discloses to, and loses boy
Sign Of The Times
A hundred-plus protesters rallied in January outside the Central California Women’s Facility.
Milestones
Former amfAR prez Mervyn Silverman joined the board of Childreach to help launch the Hope for African Children relief effort.
Fertility Rights
Being positive means never being papa, right? Wrong.
Three Scoops
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Change of HAART
New federal guidelines catch up with top AIDS docs’ practice of not hitting early with antiretrovirals.
Comfort Zone
How else can I say it? I have gas. I take Crixivan [indinavir], and Crixivan farts can clear a room.
Singing the Booze
Need to kill that killer hangover? Nurse pours on the charms that will get your juices flowing again.
Dubya’s Debut
When Bush comes to shove, the GOP is gunning for HIVers, so Doug Ireland advocates ACTing UP again -- and fast.
Brats ’R’ Us
Bullying and bawling are the MO at the PWA playground. Emily Carter has just two words for us: Grow Up!
Almost Famous
Shawn Decker tunes in to reality-based TV series The Real World only to find that with HIV, the reception he gets is all static.
Second Coming
AIDS never kept River Huston out of other people’s beds, but it took an adventure in abstinence to bring her to orgasm on her own couch of..
S.O.S.
The most radical and almost the only AIDS activism on planet Earth these days is the campaign to get AIDS drugs into African HIVers’ bodies.
Mailbox
Thank you for sharing stories about the other “F” word, faith, in the February/March issue.
Hearing AIDS
Sealed with a hiss: Reagan’s first speech about AIDS in 1987 was way too little, way too late.
