Tag Archives: AIDS

The painfully unfunny Sarah Silverman is being credited as the author of AIDS-mocking ad jingle supposedly discarded from an upcoming World AIDS Day campaign by Gap’s Product RED department. It remains unclear whether the story is a hoax or whether Silverman actually wrote it. I’m not blackI’m not gayAnd Africa is so far awayBut what’s one more December holiday?Happy AIDS …

Spurred by Michelangelo Signorile’s withering appraisal of Merv Griffin’s legacy as a closeted gay man, the Hollywood Reporter yesterday published a column posthumously outing Griffin, something the mainstream media had failed to do definitively, despite some making references to Griffin’s sexual harassment and gay palimony lawsuits. After reading Signorile’s post and stewing over it a couple a days, I appeared …

My good friend Jerry is staying with me for a week while he’s here for work. We’ve been pals since the late 80’s. Tonight he came home from a long day of meetings and noticed my passport sitting out. “Oh, where are you going?” “I just need a renewal. I’ve been meaning to do it forever. It’s been expired for …

Elton John’s post-Oscar party raised a record-breaking $4.2 million yesterday for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, bringing the total raised since 1992 to $125 million. Among the items auctioned off were two travel packages to attend Sir Elton’s 60th birthday party and concert weekend in NYC, which went for $250,000 each. Elton’s legacy, like Bill Gates’, will be as much …

According to Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, the city’s massive condom giveaway is “tragic and misguided” and “the only way to protect against sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and AIDS is through abstinence before marriage and fidelity among married couples.” In a joint statement with Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Egan goes on to say: “Our political leaders …

My apologies for this rerun from my archives. My dear friend Daniel Johnson, who threw the most kickass Groundhog’s Day birthday parties for himself, would have been 50 years old today. His was a life that burned brightly and I am illuminated still. Daniel Johnson, 1957-1997. I Will Hold You Ten Times 1. I will hold you, Daniel 2. The …

There’s an interesting story about the AIDS Memorial Quilt in today’s New York Times that speculates on the enduring value of the quilt in a day when its message may have “lost its punch”. The quilt’s caretaker organization, the Names Project, has been mired in infighting and lawsuits for years now and the bulk of the quilt is slowly deteriorating …