Posts Tagged ‘HIV’

Take the survey: assessing health care for queers, transfolks and people living with HIV

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog

I’m sure you’ve heard about the pressing need for health care reforms. Queers, transfolks and people living with HIV continue to face discrimination, lack of resources and medical providers with less-than-adequate training. Lambda Legal is conducting an online survey to assess and document the needs of these communities in order to promote relevant health care [...]


just because you think you’re HIV-negative…

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • May 13th, 2009 • Category: Blog

From Aidsmap via Carnal Nation
New research in the online journal AIDS shows that more than 50% of HIV transmissions among gay men are from main (as compared to casual) sexual partners and 46% of infections were from partners who thought that they were HIV-negative. That’s pretty scary- lots of people out there are telling their [...]


more developments in the world of HIV and sex education

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Four different articles on related topics came across my inbox today.
First, according to MSNBC.com, 3% of Washington DC residents are living with HIV or AIDS. As if that weren’t appalling enough, “almost 1 in 10 residents between ages 40 and 49 are living with HIV, and black men had the highest infection rate at almost [...]


new info on women and HIV

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Dec 17th, 2008 • Category: Blog

From 3News in New Zealand

Until now, sex educators and researchers have been assuming that in order to transmit HIV, there needed to be some sort of break in the skin. That made a lot of sense given that HIV is a blood-borne disease and that it can be transmitted through blood contact.
There’s now research that [...]


Talking with Your Kids about Sex (a resource guide)

By admin • Jul 3rd, 2007 • Category: Sex and Parenting

I’m sure that a lot of us don’t remember our parents sitting down and talking to us about sex. I certainly don’t. But, back in the 70s and early 80s when I was a youngster, the internet was not yet a blip on a screen, the Love Boat was the raciest thing I was allowed [...]


Porn HIV Scare May Signal Coming Changes

By Dr. Carol Queen • May 21st, 2004 • Category: Sex and Culture

Darren James’s fellow adult industry performers speak well of him, calling him “a real gentleman.” Women liked working with him, and his professional standards were higher than those of many up-and-coming porn stars: he got tested oftener for HIV than the customary once-monthly checkup. This requirement, adopted by most porn companies in the 1990s after [...]


Holy Condoms!

By Sarah Burgundy • Nov 21st, 2003 • Category: Sex and Culture

The Guardian in London first reported it on Thursday October 9, 2003 — according to “Vatican: Condoms Don’t Stop AIDS” by Steve Bradshaw, “the Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which HIV can pass. The church is making the [...]


HIV in the Porn Industry

By Dr. Carol Queen • Jul 21st, 1998 • Category: Carol Queen

Nina Hartley is Good Vibrations’s best friend in the adult movie industry, and I talked to her just a few days after the news had been released that one of porn’s leading men, Mark Wallice, had tested HIV-positive. That by itself wasn’t such big news — straight adult performers have tested positive or developed full-blown [...]