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The Gift
Bob Leahy with the infamous 2003 video about the phenomenon of deliberate HIV Infection aka bug-chasing. Is bug-chasing, or gift-giving real, imaginary or too small a phenomenon to take notice of? I...
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Freddie Mercury: Forty Five Years A Charisma Queen HIV Pop Music Icons: (1)
Dave R: Freddie Mercury’s death was a shock to many but a surprise to few gay fans. Despite his eccentricity, hedonism and rock god, high camp; his huge talent meant that he was genuinely mourned as...
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Designing and disclosing on Project Runway
Mark S. King on the three HIV-positive designers who have disclosed via the TV reality show Project Runway If you’re considering how to best disclose your HIV positive status to everyone you know,...
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From CATIE’s winter edition of The Positive Side comes this piece from PositiveLite.com contributor and social media coordinator Wayne Bristow This article previously appeared in The Positive Side, a...
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Fancy a bit of porn? Part one
From FS Magazine: What happens when you ask two porn actors and two porn producers about the effect gay porn has on our everyday sex lives? Especially when one actor and one producer specialise in...
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Side By Side, part four
Ed Wolf has landed in Russia, minus luggage, to present We Were Here at an LGBT film festival. Here’s his first day in St. Petersburg where he makes contact with the film festival organizers Part...
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DJ Relentless expands his fundraising
Our resident DJ writer is finding new ways to help Toronto PWA Foundation, starting in February 2014 is off to a great start! I have decided to take my fundraising up a notch. Of course POZ-TO 15 is...
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Metamorphosis
Bob Leahy reviews the funny, scary and athletic version of the Franz Kafka novel currently playing at the Royal Alex Theatre in Toronto, a show that will both amaze and be full of meaning for those of...
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Sylvester: Don’t Call Me A Drag Queen, I’m Sylvester Bitch!. HIV Pop Music...
Sylvester was a larger than life, self-created disco phenomenon. He thrust drag performance into mainstream faces and apologised for none of it. His death from AIDS cut short a talent that may well...
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Fancy a bit of porn: Part two
FS Magazine asked its followers online to fill in a fun, fast and completely anonymous survey about their porn habits. Over 1,000 people filled it in with some very interesting results This article...
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Side by side, part five
Ed Wolf continues his narrative about taking the AIDS documentary We Were Here to Russia. A bomb scare interrupts the LGBT festival for a day so he goes sightseeing in St. Petersburg instead Part...
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Poz ukulele player and guest writer Terry J. Groom is taking to the streets – and the recording studio - to combat HIV stigma. My name is Terry J. Groom. I began my career in 2011 and have since gone...
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Side by Side, part six
Ed Wolf at the LGBT film festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Things are not going smoothly as a screening is interrupted by a bomb scare. Part Six: Angels Welcome Monday, November 25th My hotel room...
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Side by Side, part seven
Ed Wolf in St. Petersburg, Russia for an LGBT film festival goes to visit an HIV/AIDS agency and later to yet another screening disrupted by a bomb scare and marred by threats of violence Part Seven:...
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Twelve HIV-Positive tattoos you must see
From a simple plus to swallows festooning a red ribbon, eleven men and one woman share their thoughts on their poz tattoos. This article by Diane Anderson-Minshall previously appeared in...
View ArticleTelling one soldier’s story
David Phillips: “When the 2014 Oscars air, I will be rooting for “Dallas Buyers Club” and its cast.” About "Dallas Buyers Club": “Ron Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo cowboy with a devil-may-care...
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HIV Pop Music Icons: (3) Klaus Nomi: A Masked Genius
Dave R: “Undeservedly not universally well-known; Klaus Nomi was an original performer who defied being labelled. He was set to take the New York pop culture world by storm until AIDS cut his life and...
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Side by Side, part eight
Ed Wolf recounts the day of the screening in St Petersburg, Russia of the AIDS documentary We Were Here for an LGBT film festival that has so far been beset by bomb scares and fear of violence. Part...
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Meeting Major Tom
Bassett owner Bob Leahy meets the delightful co-stars of the Harbourfront World Stage show “Major Tom" that is opening February 26 in Toronto - the UK’s Victoria Melody and her own loveable basset...
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Why isn’t my sex life more like the porn I watch?
FS magazine and the issue of why the porn we gay men watch and the sex we have in real life are often a mismatch This article by Gareth Johnson previously appeared in FS magazine, a publication of...
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