Tag Archives: AIDS

Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About Ellen DeGeneres And AIDS

“She is openly lesbian and obviously is an activist on the issue of homosexual rights and has taken a very active role in pushing the homosexual agenda. So for her to be the person who’s out front and the face of the Obama administration in the whole fight against AIDS I think is inappropriate. There are plenty of Christian nations …

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AIDS Memorial For NYC?

The Queer History Alliance is petitioning the leaders of New York City for a memorial park honoring the city’s over 100,000 AIDS deaths. Via press release: The Queer History Alliance, a year-old grass roots non-profit dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of LGBT history, is leading a campaign to establish an AIDS Memorial Park and Learning Center at the campus …

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TODAY: Protest March To St. Vincent’s

Occupy Wall Street protesters will march at 3PM today to the former site of St. Vincent’s, the public hospital which closed in a suspicious bankruptcy last year. Via press release: St. Vincent’s was a Catholic-run hospital, which had a charity mission to serve the under-insured and uninsured. St. Vincent’s lacked the corporate clout to negotiate fair reimbursement rates from profit-driven …

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Today In Christian Love™

According to a new book being promoted on Christian sites, if your son ends up dying from AIDS, that’s what he gets for defying God. “He would get of the opinion that God loves us unconditionally no matter what we do,” Rhodes explains. “I told him that that is true but when we live outside of his bounds and we …

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ADAP: Beyond The Numbers

From the National Minority AIDS Council: The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has released a new video highlighting the crisis facing our nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs. Currently, more than 7,400 individuals in 10 states who have been placed on ADAP wait lists, while another 17 states and Puerto Rico have instituted various cost containment measures, including reduced formularies and …

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Michelangelo Signorile Vs. Anti-Gay
North Carolina State Senator

North Carolina state Sen. James Forrester’s anti-gay lies and general asshattery have been featured here on JMG several times, so you’ll likely enjoy his evisceration at the hands of SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile. Forrester is one of the sponsors of his state’s coming referendum on same-sex marriage.

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Happy Birthday, Sylvester

Sylvester James would have turned 64 today.

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Ricky Loved Madonna

As longtime readers know, there are a handful of short stories from my archives that I repost annually. Today is Madonna’s 53nd birthday and this story makes its sixth appearance in memory of a departed friend. Ricky Loved Madonna Today is August 16th. It’s Madonna’s 48th birthday. That’s not something of which I’d ordinarily make note……… Twenty years ago today, …

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HomoQuotable – Larry Kramer

“Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague. Please know that no country in the world, including this one, especially this one, has ever called it a plague, or dealt with it as a plague. Please know that there is no cure. Please know that after all this time the amount of money being spent to find a cure is …

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Liz Taylor Leaves Estate To AIDS Charities

Most of Elizabeth Taylor’s massive fortune will go to the two AIDS charities with whom she was most famously associated. Screen queen Elizabeth Taylor has left behind a fortune worth at least $600 million, much of which is expected to go to the AIDS charities she championed for decades. Her famous jewelry collection, valued at an eye-popping $150 million in …

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Photo Of The Day

A shrine to Elizabeth Taylor has sprung up in the West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey, where Taylor was known to drop in. This weekend the bar will donate proceeds from sales of their Blue Velvet martini to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. (Via – TMZ)

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Barry Manilow On Liz Taylor’s’ AIDS Work

Barry Manilow has never come out (as far I can know), but in last night’s interview about Elizabeth Taylor he acknowledged that “I had lost half of my phone book” to AIDS. Manilow revealed that Taylor was so grateful that he agreed to perform at her first AIDS fundraiser that she sent him a pot of gardenias every year on …

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amfAR’s Tribute To Elizabeth Taylor

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Elizabeth Taylor: Early AIDS Hero

Good As You posts the above 1985 news clipping as a reminder that Elizabeth Taylor was among the first and most vocal celebrities to demand funding for AIDS research, a move she made at great risk to her career, considering the tenor of those dark, dark days. Taylor went on to cofound the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and …

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San Francisco: Earlier HAART Treatment Appears To Reduce New HIV Infections

According to a story posted on AIDSmap.com, San Francisco is seeing a decrease in new HIV infections because HIV+ people are going on medication sooner and therefore have a reduced period of infectiousness. Dr Das presented more evidence from San Francisco to show a strong correlation between reductions in community viral load and the falling number of HIV diagnoses. The …

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Denounces PrEP Study: There Is No Magic Pill

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is denouncing the study of using existing HAART medications as a daily preventive for HIV infection. From their website, No Magic Pills: AIDS Healthcare Foundation takes the matter of HIV prevention very seriously. We are concerned about the implications of a recent study of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s drug Truvada using 2,500 gay …

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The Failure To Act

Here’s a touching account of the early years of AIDS and the Reagan administration as told by the son of a then-budding lesbian activist.

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White House Press Conference, 1982

Laughter about dead queers. At the White House. It was five long horrifying and desperate years later before Reagan finally personally addressed the AIDS epidemic, when he came out against a public prevention campaign, saying, “Let’s be honest with ourselves, AIDS information can not be what some call ‘value neutral.’ After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don’t medicine …

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Tears And Rage

The post below this one reminds me of one of the very first I wrote for JMG. Originally posted here on June 8th, 2004. Yesterday I watched Ronald Reagan’s body being ceremoniously placed for viewing in the Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The honor guard, comprised of all military services, moved with stiff dignity while placing Reagan’s flag-draped coffin …

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The True Legacy Of Ronald Reagan

Today Alex Pareene notes at Salon that Ronald Reagan was far more concerned about the potential of aliens attacking from outer space than he was about the AIDS pandemic, which he completely ignored. Reagan frequently spoke on the threat from little green men, an issue he brought up at the United Nations and one that he even discussed with Russian …

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