POZ September 1999
POZ September 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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NYPD Blue
Steve Yurcik was a good kid from Queens who scored a blue uniform and a beautiful wife. But fate had something else in store.
Inside the Issue
Born to be Wild
Children’s illustrator and storyteller Maurice Sendak’s writing is on the wall.
Locked Up in Limbo
Immigrants with HIV go directly to jail -- with no set sentence or even a criminal charge.
Amazing Grace
Life’s too short for regret.
Chai Guy
This rabbi has HIV, will travel
Catching Up With...Ruby Amagwula
(POZ August 1998)
Desperately Seeking Separatists
Lesbians with HIV finally have a study of their own.
Hack vs. Hacker
Don’t log on for an HIV test, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned consumers in June.
LA Snuff Film
Los Angeles police charged Juan Chavez, now 35, with killing five gay men between 1986 and 1989.
Dole Banana Peel
Viagra pitchman and First Gentleman wannabe Bob Dole asked to sign on to DC’s AIDS Action Council push to put condoms on prime time.
Say What
“This is a free country. We don’t interfere in the right of anybody to go anywhere or say what they believe.”
Feel Like a Nuttall
Has activist Kevin Nuttall gone too far?
Caps Are On
A federal appeals panel ruled that when it comes to HIV-related medical costs, insurance companies are within their rights to limit coverage
What Dubya Stands For
Texas Gov. George W. Bush wimps out on AIDS
The Disability Dis
Don’t let insurers cut you off if you still can’t work
Emotional Rescue
Research’s last frontier is all in your head
The End of L’Affaire
French high-ups escape justice in ‘80s blood scandal
Picks
Three survivors of the landmark gay writers group, The Violet Quill, are again ruffling feathers in literary circles.
Undetectablah
He may be a medical miracle, but his doc couldn’t care less.
Mother Inferior
Why dolls are all you’ll find under her cabbage patch
Not for Adults Only
For years research has shown that most adults with HIV suffer deficiencies of many vitamins and minerals.
Get Over It
Free advice and a shot of attitude for booty bothers
Lipo Handles
Sky-high levels of blood fats and reduced insulin sensitivity in some HIVers on HAART are being fought with drugs.
Topic of Cancer
Living with HIV certainly beats the alternative, but long-term survival with compromised immunity may be a costly proposition.
Success Sucks
Call it Catch 22,000.
A Load of Fit
The conventional wisdom is that drug-induced viral resistance is always evil—the leading cause of treatment failure.
Thanks for the Complement
Jon Kaiser wrote the book on combination therapy
A Loaded Question
Coombs, an internationally recognized expert on HIV measurements, analyzes multiple viral load results of POZ founder Sean Strub.
Message in a Bottle
Is your brand of water safe?
Regarding Henry
This Broadway swinger keeps AIDS up in lights
S.O.S.
The moral of this story? Activism still works, and needs you.
Contributors
A staff writer for New York magazine, Ariel Levy has covered everything the naked city dishes out.
Source of a Different Color
One out of four blacks say The Man made AIDS
Mom’s Recipe
Soul Food, a GMHC peer-prevention program, cooked up a new campaign this spring to urge young black gay men to get tested.
Three Penny Opera
If Elton vs. Tina on VH1’s Diva’s Live curled lashes, June’s round two flipped wigs.
Letters to the Editor September 1999
In “Life After Latex” (June 1999), anal sex yet again is viewed only as a gay man’s issue.
Woody Cheers on Rx Marijuana
While Woody Harrelson isn’t known for holding his tongue.
Digest This
Controversy rocked Roman Catholic Brazil June 15 when top AIDS official Pedro Chequer proposed implementing sex-education in preschools.
Obits
One of fashion’s leading photographers, David Seidner, 42, died of AIDS June 6.
Detectablues
A new viral load test shows how ultrasensitive he is to that word
Facts Behind the Fix
“Where’s the beef?” That’s the refrain of doctors who challenge the comprehensive approach to HIV care pioneered by likes of Jon Kaiser, M...
