POZ November 1999
POZ November 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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Both Sides Now
In their own words, two lovers try to make sense of how one came to infect the other with an HIV supervirus.
How to End the Epidemic
A community action agenda with some blue sky notions, too.
Inside Today
Blame It on Your Hormones
If you’re tired, you’re cranky and you’ve lost your love jones, Lark Lands know just what the doctor hasn’t ordered.
Editor’s Letter
There was a time when I felt awful about being spared from AIDS while so many other, worthier gay men were not. I am more forgiving now.
Mailbox-November 1999
The cover of your August 1999 issue featuring a construction by Barton Benes was haunting, artistic and moving.
Rock of Aegis
It could only happen in the Silicon Age.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Despite a mixed record on gay and lesbian issues, President Clinton has always allowed that he feels the pain.
Class Act
Meeting between 18-year-old and Clifton, New Jersey city councilman sparks big change
Drug Ads Add Up
Are pharmaceutical pitches breaking your bank?
Life is better with HIV, say 49% of positive folks
A study found that another 18% say life is about the same and 29% say it’s been worse since testing positive.
“Should Marijuana Be Legal for Medical Purposes?”
“The sins of an 18-year-old college student should not affect a 60-year-old cancer patient racked with agony.”
Less than 3,000 Served
Las Vegas advocacy group Fighting AIDS in Our Community Today (FACT) and city council battle it out over billboards
All the Lonely People
The ringing telephone shatters the cool August quiet.
A Squeeze-In at the Summit
Two hundred gay guys gathered in a conference room are contracting their pelvic muscles, practicing Kegel exercises.
Remembrance of Things Present
While attending the Global Network of PWAs conference in Warsaw, I took a break to visit Auschwitz.
Future Shock
For all the reams of newsprint, acres of film, heaps of data, AIDS is still a subject governed by censorship and taboo.
Cho & Tell
Margaret Cho is back, touring with I’m the One That I Want, her hilarious one-woman tell-all.
Babe in Boyland
Post-diagnosis, post-recovery and pre-menopausal, our fearless columnist finds her sex drive kicking into high gear. What’s a girl to do?
Bad Faith
Congress prepares to render unto the religious the right to discriminate against people with HIV. Doug Ireland explains the newest hate law.
Get Well Soon
“Gay=Sick” has been science’s diagnosis for centuries.
Dr. Leather Meets Mr. Right
Contrary conservative Andrew Sullivan’s marching orders from POZ were to find a man who’s the marrying kind. He bagged Tony Mills, Internation...
Ties That Bind
Size doesn’t matter when it comes to domestic violence
Supreme Sacrifice
High court limits disability protections, hanging HIVers out to dry. Arthur S. Leonard is on the case.
Pregnant Poz
Flor Monterossa had her doubts, but now she can’t wait to welcome her baby into the world.
How to Have a Healthy Baby
For moms-to-be, seven best-chance options to keep your infant HIV negative
Spare the Breast
One of HIV’s cruelest ironies is that it seeds the body’s most intimate, regenerative acts with disease and danger.
Stop PCP Pills?
Is it safe for me to drop it?
The Big Queasy
How to stroke a stomach that just won’t quit
On the Rebound
Don’t discount potential for hormones, diet, nutrients, herbs and other complementary therapies to counter damaging side effects of therapy.
From the Gut
The next research frontier: HIV’s intestinal hiding place. Peter Anton goes to the source.
Hoop Dreams
In 1991, Magic Johnson woke up middle America to AIDS. At the time it seemed like the full-court press would save the day.
Arts
Duke University Press keeps AIDS in print with Paula Treichler’s How to Have Theory in an Epidemic.
Milestones
I met Karl Lange in 1994 on my first day as a volunteer counselor at Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang.
