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Boys in chairs: the queer cripple and the corporeal conundrum
Andrew Morrison-Gurza writing for OurAgenda.ca says “It is my hope that this (will give) you a glimpse into the world of the Queer Cripple and the issues that we encounter when trying to navigate the...
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Fear of queers
New PositiveLite.com writer Andrew Morrison-Gurza is HIV-negative but shares a lot with poz men and women. Today - the emotional impact of being ‘different’ within the LGBTQ+ community My desire to be...
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Bedding Andrew
Bob Leahy in an extended conversation with Toronto neg guy Andrew Morrison-Gurza about life with a disability, sex on wheels, his film “Bedding Andrew” and what he shares with people living with HIV...
View ArticleDeliciously disabled & disrobed
Our HIV-negative disability expert Andrew Morrison-Gurza – the disabled dude in the nude here - says “when I am naked, I am free. What nudity means to this person with a disability.” photo credit:...
View ArticleTouch me
Our neg guy on wheels Andrew Morrison-Gurza on how the experience of touch affects persons with disabilities like himself As I am lying there naked in bed, my mind has drifted off elsewhere. I am...
View ArticleThat time I had sex with another queer cripple
Our neg guy on wheels Andrew Morrison-Gurza says he’s never been more excited in his whole life He was my first. I have never been more excited or more utterly terrified of anything in my whole life....
View ArticleHIV drug costs: potential for 90% reduction in costs coming soon?
Insurers in the United States are liable to pay up to four times the price paid by the UK’s NHS for branded antiretrovirals. From AIDSmap.com, Keith Alcorn of thebody.com on the need for more pricing...
View ArticleWhy we need to rethink HIV prevention
The game has changed and we need to change tactics. From FS Magazine, Ian Howley asks, "If you don’t care about yourself, why would you care about remaining HIV-negative?" This article previously...
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Addicted at work - an insider speaks
Bob Leahy talks in-depth to Eric Cashmore, a person living with HIV who works at a northern Ontario AIDS Service Organization about Eric’s ongoing struggle with his addictions, and about the help he...
View ArticleLive from the OHTN Conference HIV Endgame II, What’s Hot with Peer Researchers?
Maximizing Support: Highlights from the Supporting Peer Research Asistant Effectively workshop Hosted by James Watson Tuesday, November 22nd @ 2:30pm EST This in demand workshop offers an exciting...
View ArticleMy brave new post antidepressant, post social media world
"Clearly something is shifting. A need of meaningful personal relationships has been elevated to priority level," says post-meth, post-antidepressant Brian Finch At my chiropractor’s office as I was...
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Respected Canadian community advocate Ron Rosenes on the radio
Ron Rosenes interviewed about the Patient Zero myth by Anna Maria Tremonti for cbc radio's The Current Listen to the whole program on cbc radio's The Current, here. Anna Maria Tremonti: I have Ron...
View ArticleVideo: Mark S. King aboard the 2016 HIV cruise retreat
"I support anything that builds important community among people with HIV, and that includes vacations that have real value beyond the perks and the destinations," says Mark The spirit of the annual...
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Are we 'Generation Bareback'?
Bareback sex is on the rise in the UK and elsewhere. From FS Magazine, Stuart Haggas reports on the possible reasons and on what it all might mean for HIV prevention. This article by Stuart Haggas...
View ArticleSmoking more harmful than HIV for people taking effective treatment, US...
Dr Rochelle Walensky: "It is time to recognise that smoking is now the primary killer of people with HIV who are receiving treatment." For AIDSmap, Keith Alcorn reports. Smoking has the potential to...
View ArticleOne man's fight against HIV stigma, expressed in verse.
HIV poetry by Alex Sparrowhawk " I’m Undetectable, non-infectious But telling some of you is fucking pointless." The Seven-Year Itch The early days weren’t the typical honeymoon period And I...
View ArticleNHS England loses appeal – it must consider providing PrEP
Nonetheless NHS England may still try to put obstacles in the way of NHS provision of PrEP, as AIDSmap.com's Roger Pebody reports. Not all the UK press has been enthusiastic At the Court of Appeal in...
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Going on vacation
The simple act of saying that he’s going on vacation in the US raises multiple issues for Editor Bob Leahy, from guilt to politics to religion. (When did life get this complicated?) But he’s going...
View ArticleWhat is sex really like for a gay trans man?
On top of worries about disclosure or transphobia, sexual health can be a tough field to navigate for a lot of trans people too. From FS Magazine, Aedan Wolton This article by Aidan Wolton previously...
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