“Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened."-- Sir Winston Churchill
I am usually less judgmental but I guess that's not the space I'm in today... PrEP is all about unprotected sex - and while I... read more
"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love."-- John Lennon
I am going to have to disagree with Mr. Lennon – I think it matters greatly “who” you love – for we need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our... read more
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us." -- Stephen Covey
While I have a great relationship with my physician – he doesn’t influence my treatment adherence. I remember once he told me that if I didn’t take my meds as... read more
We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction. We might regularly ask ourselves:
• "What do I really want to do?"
• "What brings me greatest happiness?"
• "How can I bring more of these into my... read more
"If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole." -- Mark Victor Hansen
My closest friends would describe me as grateful, spiritual, and gregarious. I am a person that lives life with a positive vision for what my life entails, what it should be. I believe... read more
We need somebody who's got the heart and the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges... read more
“Work should be in order to live. We don’t live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.”-- Matthew Fox
Though we are living and thriving longer with HIV – not everyone can manage the medications and people are still dying of AIDS. It is a lot of work to Live Well with HIV... read more
"If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart."
-- Marshall B. Rosenberg
As a person thriving with HIV I’m not sure I really have a judgment on which prevention method is more effective for someone... read more
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination." -- John Schaar
The prevention messages have to continue to become more sex positive and... read more
The theme of Gay Pride NYC 2012 is “Share the LOVE.” Alan Reiff, the Co-chair of Heritage of Pride said, “Our hope is that this theme promotes the importance of shared equality for the straight and LGBT community.”
Since June is Gay Pride month I am glad that the theme for NYC Pride 2012... read more
