POZ Special Issue: 31 at 30
POZ Special Issue: 31 at 30
Thirty-one long-term survivors on thirty years of AIDS
Profiles
Sean Strub
Innovator, rule-breaker, POZ founder, senior adviser to the Positive Justice Project combating HIV criminalization, positive for 31 years.
Robert Chodo Campbell
Buddhist counselor, peacemaker, founder of New York City’s Zen Center for Contemplative Care, positive for 28 years.
Kim Hunter
Manager of the Office for Women’s Health at New Jersey’s Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, ex-prisoner, freestyle cruiser, positive for 23 years
Sylvia Young
Woman of the WORLD (peer advocate program manager at Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease), positive for 16 years
Dab Garner
Teddy bear-tender (creator of Dab the AIDS Bear Project), positive for 29 years
Stacey Latimer
Gay minister (Love Alive International Sanctuary of Praise NYC), believer, positive for 24 years
Bamby Salcedo
Mexicana immigrant, transgender warrior, coordinator of the Children’s Hospital L.A. transgender youth program, positive for 16 years
Sharon Wagner
Mother and grandmother, churchgoer, cancer survivor, positive for 24 years
Peter Staley
AIDSmeds founder, crystal-kicker, ex-Wall Streeter, positive for 28 years
Jane Fowler
Graceful and gracious voice of HIV over 50, founder, HIV Wisdom for Older Women, positive for 25 years
Fred Hersch
Jazz pianist and composer, coma survivor, AIDS fund-raiser, positive for 25 years
Mechelle Jones
Crack-habit code cracker, inspirer, admissions coordinator for HELP/PSI in the Bronx, New York, positive for 16 years
Lisa Tiger
Muscogee Nation role model, speaker, mom and adopter of abused kids, positive for 23 years
Loreen Willenberg
HIV controller, former landscaper who started the Zephyr Foundation to promote controller studies, positive for 19 years
Hydeia Broadbent
HIV’s knock-your-socks-off baby girl, award-winning public speaker, positive for 27 years (her whole life)
Larry Bryant
Rebel rouser, former all-star footballer, Housing Works’ national field organizer, positive for 25 years
David Lee
Welcoming shoulder and master of social work at Culturally Compassionate Counseling, positive for 16 years
Shawn Decker
Positoid rock star, educator and author (My Pet Virus), POZ blogger, positive for 25 years
Susan Rodriguez
SMART starter (founder, SMART University, New York City), positive for 16 years
Tracy Bruce
Georgia peach of a mom and grandmother, HIV prevention specialist, positive for 26 years
Latrischa Miles
Champion adherence counselor (at the Kansas City Free Health Clinic), positive for 16 years
Eric Sawyer
Ambassador of activism, UNAIDS adviser, cofounder of ACT UP New York and Health GAP, positive for 30 years
Tom Duane
Openly gay and HIV-positive New York State Senator, community champion and hero, positive for 30 years
Jorge Delgado
Impassioned and empowered minister, HIV/AIDS ministry director at Metropolitan Community Church in DC, positive for 23 years
Jack Mackenroth
Project Runway contestant, advocate and athlete, positive for 22 years
Linda Scruggs
Program director, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families, survivor of incest, sexual abuse and cocaine, positive for 21 years
Monica Johnson
One of our favorite HEROES (she founded Helping Everyone Receive Ongoing Effective Support in Columbia, Louisiana), positive for 27 years
Imani Harrington
HIV drama-writing queen (Bitter Fruit, for example), positive for 26 years.
Dawn Averitt Bridge
The Well Project founder, mother (her older daughter was POZ’s first cover baby, celebrating an HIV-negative birth), positive for 23 years
Greg Louganis
Diving board Olympian, trainer of divers and dogs, positive for 23 years
Mary Fisher
Artist, world-rocker (her speech at the 1992 Republican Convention broke the don’t-say-AIDS barrier), educator, positive for 20 years
