Category: Radical Gay Politics

Some references you might read if Gay HIV prevention is important to you! Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder Harry Hay. Edited by Will Roscoe. 1996. Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures. Eric Rofes. 1998. Latino

WHO AM I?  PART 4 Or So Now What? In trying to read the local tea leaves on this I believe I sense a growing recognition of the need to return or at least refocus more HIV prevention activities on

WHO AM I?  PART 2 Or Better than Peyote! This whole issue of how we homos define ourselves becomes very important, at least to me, because I think it is very much at the root of how we successfully address

WHO AM I?  PART 1 Or More than what I do with my dick! So where to start with this seemingly important project called “HIV prevention” in the face of today’s realities? Defining just who you are addressing the prevention

Where Are We? AIDS statistics are certainly not above being tortured, often until they scream, but it does seem that in 2002 in the USA gay men may well be re-emerging as the leading group at risk for new HIV

For those of you not familiar with the name, Harry Hay, he is considered by many to be the founder of the modern gay movement in America. All history is revision of course but it can be safely said that

CAN YOU BE AN EFFECTIVE AIDS CARE PROVIDER WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF THE DIVERSITY OF QUEER SUBCULTURES? A Mexican man I have taken care for several years asked me last week: “Do you think God loves me.” If you take

Saint Patrick’s Day has come and gone and we are all still alive. All of the turmoil around the parade has been educational. It is good for us to he reminded from time to time that a significant number of

A recent poll cited in the August 8, 1983 issue of Newsweek magazine, and done by the Gallop organization, included the following question: Do you have any friends or acquaintances who are homosexual?     Answers: Yes: 26 % No: 74 %

Ronald Reagan thinks he’s Darth Vader. Secretary of the Interior James Watt has been running amok with our natural resources for three years, but really only upsets the majority of Americans when he trashes the Beach Boys. Gay men have