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Issue: 143

Boxing – My Positive Place

MUNY MUDARIKIRI looks at the sport of Boxing and the role it plays in his life and those of others with HIV.

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Bare-faced cheek!

Russell Fleet addresses the complex issue of barebacking and tries to break it down – without the use of black or white.

Just when I thought I’d learned to keep my mouth shut and the subject was closed, the barebacking debate rears its head again. When I wrote about this before, it made me at least as many enemies as friends and I expect this time will be no different. So rather than taking a position on it one way or the other – yes, I have been known to be versatile – I thought I’d just give you a straight-from-the-heart personal view of how the whole barebacking debate impacts on me as a gay man with HIV. Maybe it lands like this for you too, maybe it doesn’t, but I hope this gets read by some of the people who are running this show, just so they can get some sense of how they’re going about it is affecting some of us.

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Caroline Guinness-McGANN

Lola

Caroline Guinness-McGANN says goodbye to her beloved dog – Lola, the natural entertainer.

spring has Sprung. There is nothing like the changing seasons to bring on bouts of reflection and I have been doing this a lot recently. A few weeks ago my precious dog, Lola, died. She had reached the grand old age of 14 and had been with me through so many momentous events in my life.

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Russell Fleet

And now on PNTV, Grumpy Old Queens, starring...

Russell Fleet takes a look at being 45, HIV positive and single on Planet Gay!

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Caroline Guinness-McGann

Here’s wishing everyone a Divine ’09!

Caroline Guinness-McGann waves goodbye and good riddence to G.W. Bush and looks at what President Obama’s intended changes mean for the HIV and LGBT community

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Caroline Guinness-McGann

The way we were

Caroline Guinness-McGann goes back over 20 years to the first World AIDS Day and the first fundraising concert for HIV & AIDS

In 1986 I was approached by Tony Whitehead – Founder of the fledgling THT– to produce the first fundraising concert for HIV & AIDS. The proposed date for the concert was 1st April 1987 which was ‘International AIDS Day’. Both the date and the title changed a few years later to World AIDS Day on 1st December.

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Russell Fleet

WAD – ugh!

What is it good for? Absolutely nothing – say it again.
Russell Fleet tells us his problem with World Aids Day.

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Caroline Guinness-McGann looks

HIV vs Age

A few months ago I received an 'invitation' to participate in a conference on HIV and aging. It was made clear that scientists, doctors and researchers wished to address this issue as it is not something they would have anticipated in the era before ARV's. My interpretation of the letter they sent me was their need for a 'guinea pig' and I obviously fitted the bill. I was a little insulted as the

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COLUMN: SAM COTTON

Threatening Status Quo

Naturopathic treatments don't deserve the bad reputation they get and should be considered as part of a step towards changing your life, argues Sam Cotton.

Naturopathic medicine can be just as effective as allopathic medicine.

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NATASHA BELL

Missing you

From her gregarious Greek holiday, Natasha Bell relives her International AIDS riots, sorry, conferences...

Look, there’s your friend Bill Clinton at the AIDS Conference. Not there this year are we?"sneers my husband pointing at the television. I affect nonchalance, but inside I’m effervescing bile. No, for the first time in 6 years I’m not there, I’m here in holiday hotel hell in Crete, with bingo in the evenings and Bavarian renditions of Agadoo ringing in my ears.

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Russell Fleet

The Wizard of Poz

Had a very interesting holiday at the end of August, I went to Poland. Not the obvious holiday destination I grant you, but I had good reason. I was visiting my friends, a lovely couple, Jakub and Andrzej (names have been changed to protect the innocent) whom I met about three years ago through a social networking site. My profile rather brazenly declared my HIV status and Jakub found it by chance. He contacted me saying he had been diagnosed just over two years or so, didn't know anyone else with HIV and had a lot of questions.

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