Archive for the tag "gay"

Buffy goes gay. Or not. (05/03/08)

Gay role models are hard to find. But just when we’ve got a vampire slayer that might fit the bill, we’re told she doesn’t. Buffy, Vampire Slayer extraordinaire, has ended up in the buff with another slayerette.

Here’s what her progenitor Joss Whedon told The New York Times.
“It puts the reader in this ‘Oh my [...]

Does your doctor know you’re gay? Missing HIV diagnoses (22/02/08)

A new study in the UK inidcates that doctors aren’t doing very well at diagnosing HIV. The study looks at diagnosis in primary infection, the few weeks or months when a person first becomes infected with HIV, when the virus replicates like mad and people often feel fluey. It’s an important time to catch infection, [...]

Brideshead Revisited — the gay boy’s cut (20/02/08)

(Source: Youtube via Towleroad)

Giving contract tracing a bad name (15/02/08)

I’m aware that my ambivalent attitude towards tracing the sex partners of HIV-infected people in order to offer them testing, prevention services and treatment if necessary is unpopular in some quarters. When I look at what the Egyptian government is up to, I can really see why.
According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, Egypt [...]

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