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Don’t Worry, Thom Brennaman. We Know Exactly Who You Are.
(Tim Boyle/Getty) It has been ages since I have heard someone say the word “fag.” God knows the word is regularly weaponized on playgrounds and hurled from passing cars. I suppose that members of...
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Mark Addison Smith Creates Art from Eavesdropping
New York City artist Mark Addison Smith respects your privacy, he really does. He just can’t help himself. If he overhears you say something fascinating, he might need to turn your words into art....
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Peter Staley Just Unmasked Anthony Fauci and It Is Fabulous
You know this will be an unusual interview, even for Instagram, when the host brings an enormous glass of wine to his lips and toasts his guest. “Let’s get into it,” Peter Staley says, and in the...
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I Can’t Take Down My Holiday Decorations Fast Enough
Who knew I had this final burst of energy, so wearying have the months been. But there I stood, running on one cup of coffee and without a bite of breakfast, tearing ornaments from the tree and...
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The Viking Terrorist Deserves Ridicule. Not Sexualization.
Alleged domestic terrorist Jake Angeli Humor is subjective, and born out of our desire to process complex emotions. “Comedy is my only weapon,” Mel Brooks once said, a man who has made a comedy...
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Rush Limbaugh Mocked AIDS Deaths. These HIV Activists Outlived Him.
Rush Limbaugh once mocked AIDS deaths by playing disco music while gleefully reporting who died. Now that Limbaugh himself is dead, here is my first (and last) episode of “Rush Limbaugh is Dead,” in...
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HIV Genetic Data is Tracked and Shared. It’s Creepy and Dangerous.
If you are a person living with HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and your local health department probably already have your HIV genetic profile. They have been examining it...
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When Our Masks are Removed, What Will Be Revealed?
Last night I sat with my husband and a member of our pod (is there a more 2020 expression than that?) as we watched a perfectly sweet and entertaining movie that gets pretty sad at the end, and...
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He Wrote That First AIDS Report in 1981. He Has a Lot More to Say.
Michael Gottlieb, MD (photo: Elizabeth Nathane) This June 5, 2021 marks 40 years since the famous report in a CDC publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), in which Dr. Michael...
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Review: Peter Staley’s Memoir “Never Silent” is a Real Life Thriller
Cover art detail from Never Silent by Peter Staley Activist Peter Staley’s much-anticipated new memoir, Never Silent, opens with almost unbearable nail-biting suspense, sweeping us into the...
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