The Doctor vs. #MeToo
How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.
How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.
“His life with the virus would be his witness, his public testimony. Performance as life, and life as performance.”
Charles P. Pierce GQ Feb 1993 25min Permalink
It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.
Bryan Washington Buzzfeed Jun 2019 15min Permalink
What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?
Nathaniel Penn GQ May 2019 30min Permalink
Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 35min Permalink
Twenty-four years ago, a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But even more astonishing is the life the son turned out to live.
Justin Heckert GQ Apr 2016 20min Permalink
The delicate process of telling a ten-year-old she is HIV-positive.
John Woodrow Cox Washington Post Sep 2015 Permalink
AIDS activism in the “after” years.
Emily Bass n+1 Aug 2015 35min Permalink
The debate surrounding Truvada, the first drug approved by the FDA to prevent HIV.
Tim Murphy New York Jul 2014 20min Permalink
On the criminalization of nondisclosure.
Sergio Hernandez ProPublica Dec 2013 30min Permalink
In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.
Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Aug 2013 20min Permalink
The tragic life of 70s-era supermodel Gia Carangi.
On Gia’s early years as a bisexual “Bowie kid” in working class Philadelphia.
On Gia’s heroin addiction and death from AIDS at age 26.
Stephen Fried Philadelphia Magazine Nov 1988 1h15min Permalink
Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.
Rich Juzwiak Gawker Aug 2012 15min Permalink
I've grown, over the last few months, the beginnings of concerned; he's started to suffer bouts of malaise. Nothing too regular, or too terrible: mild stomach aches, sore joints, general lethargy. In anyone else, it could be anything, etc. In Chad, I grow attuned to the slightest variation in temperature, to the distracted look behind his eyes when food isn't sitting with him.
John Fram The Atlantic Mar 2012 25min Permalink
Timothy Brown was diagnosed with HIV in the ’90s. In 2006, he found that a new, unrelated disease threatened his life: leukemia. After chemo failed, doctors resorted to a bone marrow transplant. That transplant erased any trace of HIV from his body, and may hold the secret of curing AIDS.
Tina Rosenberg New York May 2011 15min Permalink