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ADAP Watch, May 31, 2012 (1)

More than 90% of those now wait-listed are in five Southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and North Carolina. All five have legitimate state budget shortfalls. All five, however, also have increasingly serious rural HIV epidemics, and extending immediate ADAP drug assistance to everyone who qualifies would be a useful step towards slowing the spread of the virus. The additional cost to the states would be trivial in the context of their whole state budgets – eliminating state ADAP contributions altogether would not materially improve their fiscal situations, and doubling them would not make them materially worse.

May Photo A Day: Where I Stand (3)

Monday, May 21, 2012 … Sunday, May 20, 2012 was the   29th Annual International AIDS Candlelight Memorial … My mother and I were lucky enough to attend I say lucky because while these memorials are held globally, there are only about 2 dozen held in the US AIDS Resource Group of Evansville’s  service  at St Mary’s… Read More ›

May Photo A Day: Weather (0)

Monday, May 28, 2012 Hot! That’s all you can say about the weather today… It was 88º at 11:am … So, missing Portland and the culture of community fountains as cooling spots and gathering places like these … … Chloë Angel and I went on a quest to find all the water fountains with~in walking… Read More ›

June Photo A Day: On Your Plate (0)

Sunday, June 3, 2012

May Photo A Day: Unusual (0)

Thursday, May 25, 2012 Unusual… What is that? really? How do you capture unusual? What do I do that is Unusual ??? … Perplexed I went on with my day LOOKING for the unusual … I couldn’t capture the new UNUSUAL  behavior Chloë Angel has picked~up from her dog cousins since visiting them earlier in… Read More ›

Look What My Dumb A$$ BroughtHome (0)

Thursday, May 17, 2012 … Last night while walking Chloë we ran across this green glass top table in someone’s garbage. I wasn’t too interested. However, on one of our walks today, we ran across it again. This time I decided to go ahead and bring it home. … When I picked it up, I… Read More ›

gratitude: look what came in the mail (2)

Thursday, May 24, 2012 I was blessed enough to have a few days off in a row; four to be exact! The benefits of working part~time, I tell ya! So, being no fool, I took advantage of this stretch and called my cousin Deanna. We made arrangements for me to hang out with my found… Read More ›

Conceiving a Child While HIV Positive (0)

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Vanderburgh County Civil Rights Ordinance (0)

On Monday, April 9, 2012, the Vanderburgh County Commissioners will hold a second public hearing regarding proposed amendments to the Civil Rights Ordinance now in place.  As it stands employers, landlords and such are free to discriminate based on age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity (either real or perceived).  Now as much as I hate it, I get it that sexual orientation and gender identity may… Read More ›

May Photo A Day: Technology (0)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 yes, I know I am way behind on these… When trying to figure out what exactly to take a picture of for this post, I considered several things … … All of these, while technology seemed not exactly what I wanted to post… They seemed soulless to not capture any part… Read More ›

Eva (0)

and we would have driven. Driven straight to hell waiting for whatever adventure was before us…. I will say, once we got there, your mother would have looked for the biggest freak and try to make out with him. Lisa would try to get with his best friend. I would run around looking for the queer boys and fall in love with anyone of them and all of them if they talked to me. Anne would look for any guy in a band or tortured artsy type and flirt or try and hook up. Lori, she would follow your mother around and keep who she liked to herself, for fear that Denise or Anne would make moves on him. And she would take mental notes of everything… and we would meet back go back to Washington and walk around town as if we were the coolest people to have walked the earth. And plan the next trip.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Blue (0)

Thursday, May 17, 2012 … I love this old abandoned blue building. It is about two blocks from where I live. Every time I walk by I think how great it would be to buy it. I imagine myself renovating it updating it to make it as green as possible without taking away from its… Read More ›

Caine’s Arcade (0)

I just finished listening to this story on NPR’s All Things Considered: Caine’s Cardboard Arcade (click the link to listen) that led me to this: photo courtesy of Caine’s Arcade fan page on Facebook. go ahead and LIKE it https://www.facebook.com/cainesarcade?ref=ts It made me smile, so I had to look it up on YouTube. Here’s the… Read More ›

Rise Up to HIV (0)

What Does It Mean to Rise Up to HIV? Below Are Examples
Getting tested for HIV; knowing your status
Advocating for a just, HIV/AIDS-related cause
Anything that raises awareness of HIV/AIDS
Volunteering in the HIV/AIDS community
Using your voice and telling your story to educate others
Using your voice and story to help reduce stigma
Participating in an AIDS walk
Donating to an HIV/AIDS-related organization
Organizing an HIV /AIDS-related event
Offering your hand in hand to help someone with HIV/AIDS
Working in the HIV/AIDS field
Someone who is HIV negative
Writing about your experience, strength and hope living with HIV/AIDS

Sexual Exposure Chart (0)

Every year more than 15 million cases of STDs are reported in the U.S. This chart shows on the left the number of sexual partners and on the right the number of people exposed to. This is assuming that everyone has the same sexual partners as you. Related articles JustGetTested.com Recommends Confidential Blood Testing During Sexually… Read More ›

Weekly Photo Challenge: Together (4)

I am a simple guy… so I took a simple picture. and a not so flattering one either… but hey! that’s OK… … As per my M.O. : a little back story… … In 2006, my mom moved from the Post~Hurricane Katrina devastation of Mississippi to her mother’s (my grandmother) home in Indiana.  It was not… Read More ›