All posts tagged "hiv/aids"
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Community Growth
Gigi Thomas is on call 24 hours a day. The transgender client advocate and hotline supervisor for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), in Adams Morgan,...
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Local News Briefs
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Eight out of every 10 people living with AIDS in Washington are African-American. That includes Robert Cobb, a 54-year-old gay client...
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Coffee Talk
Grant P. Thompson is not HIV-positive. But 20 years ago, everyone in the gay community -- positive or negative -- was affected by the burgeoning...
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It Starts with Human
For every 100,000 D.C. residents in 2004, 179 were diagnosed with AIDS, the highest rate in the nation. Out of the total D.C. population of...
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Soul Searching
''Back away from the blog.'' That's hard for Andrew Sullivan to do, even if his partner and fiancé is the one asking him to do...
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Moving Forward
The third in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral race. As the D.C. summer begins its annual shift into...
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Health Matters
Crystalization CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE had D.C.'s gay community buzzing in 2005, but not in the usual way. In March, the D.C.-based National Coalition for LGBT Health...
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Examining the Epidemic
With the success of treatments for HIV/AIDS over the past few years, with the near-disappearance of AIDS related causes from gay obituaries, with the continued...
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Paul Kawata
When Paul Kawata agreed to serve as executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in 1989, the organization had a staff of four...
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Adam Tenner
Headquartered in a basement along Pennsylvania Avenue SE, nearly spitting distance from the Capitol, the drop-in center and offices of Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) are very...
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Julie Scofield
Among the quotes one could only hear in Washington, add the following: ''I have a great passion for the role of state government.'' It's a...
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Party Crasher
Titan Bar held all the elements for a party Monday evening. Beyond the regular bar offerings, there was a buffet. The crowd of about 50...
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Talking Tina
Crystal methamphetamine was on dozens of people's minds Monday afternoon at the BarcelĂł Hotel on P Street. While mention of a hotel and crystal meth...
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Blonde Ambition
One could almost say Mrs. Robinson is the original desperate housewife. But there's nothing desperate about the woman currently playing her on The Graduate's national...
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HIV and LGV in MSM
With St. Valentine's Day, February is the month best associated with romantic love. Within the MSM (men who have sex with men) community, however, the...
