by Bach Polakowski | Mar 21, 2013 | Guest Contributor |
By Todd A. Heywood (Senior Reporter, The American Independent) LANSING – The conversation went something like this: “You mean you would report my HIV status?” the man asked. “If it was relevant to the story, yes, yes I would,” I told him....
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 28, 2013 | Guest Contributor |
By Mark S. King The turning point could be traced to August of 1998. It was the month that, for the first time in well over a decade, the Bay Area Reporter did not have a single AIDS obituary submitted for publication. The promise of protease inhibitor medications...
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 4, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Ed Koch Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York City, has died. He was 88. The only time I ever met him was at a press conference in the late 1980s. I was an undergrad at New York University studying journalism. He was there to answer questions from the student press. I...
by Bach Polakowski | Jan 11, 2013 | Guest Contributor |
By Sunny Bjerk (Communications Manager, Housing Works) In the last printed issue of Newsweek magazine, which, after 80 years is now transitioning to an-all digital format, columnist David Ansen talks about the effects the AIDS pandemic had on artists throughout the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 13, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The LGBT blog Queerty wrote this attention-grabbing headline in response to recent news about gonorrhea: “Super Bug: Is Gonorrhea the New AIDS?” The post by Dan Avery is the result of new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...