All posts tagged "hiv/aids"
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Confronting the Virus
Think of it as the ''It Gets Better'' campaign for people affected by HIV. Washington-area blogger and HIV activist Justin B. Terry-Smith is asking people...
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Christopher Barnhill
Christopher Barnhill may be only 25 years old. But to hear this Metro Weekly Next Generation Award winner tell it, he's already fulfilling his life's...
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HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.
Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...
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Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection
London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...
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Whitman-Walker Touts Growth, Fiscal Health
Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced Monday that it is projecting an operating...
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Don't Tell, Go to Jail
Two bills – one already introduced, one being drafted – in the Maryland General Assembly would classify transferring the HIV virus to another individual as...
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Locals Mark World AIDS Day
About a hundred community members and religious and civic leaders gathered at dusk at the fountain in Dupont Circle Dec. 1 for a candlelight vigil...
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World AIDS Day 2011
It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...
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Battling the Blood Ban
Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...
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Clinton's HIV Address
In a major address delivered Nov. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that more than...
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An Angry Heart
Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...
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Walking for Whitman-Walker
Rain and snow flurries may have kept some away, but failed to dampen the mood of some 5,000 participants in Washington's 25th Annual AIDS Walk...
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AIDS Walk's Top 25
Whitman-Walker Health, organizer of AIDS Walk Washington, on Tuesday announced not only the recipients of the event's three major honors, but a list of 25...
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HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Head Insults Gay Councilmembers
The director of an HIV/AIDS nonprofit – now being sued by D.C.'s attorney general for allegedly diverting more than $300,000 in city funds intended for...
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Urban Empire
If gay D.C. has an ''A-list,'' David von Storch is certainly on it. Most obviously, he's got the looks and the money. Just ask Men's...
