Tag: HIV

A man has admitted to deliberately infecting himself with HIV so that he infect other men. Arkansas resident Stephen Koch, 25, admitted in court that he intended to contract HIV to infect other people. “Just so I can get my brain around this, did I understand the state correctly?” Circuit Judge Robin Green asked in court, reported Queerty. “Mr. Koch intentionally contracted the HIV virus so he could then infect others? Was that the reason?” To which Koch replied, simply: “Yes.” He deliberately exposed...

The flag also honors those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have passed away A new Pride flag design has gone viral for the creative way it includes queer people of color, the transgender community, and the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. The “progress Pride flag” is the work of queer, nonbinary, demisexual artist Daniel Quasar. The retooled design takes the traditional rainbow flag, created by Gilbert Baker, and adds arrow-shaped stripes that incorporates the transgender Pride flag, as well as adds brown...

Bassil marched alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Toronto Pride In a new digital short for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), director Nimisha Mukerji provided a space for queer Syrian refugee Bassil to tell his incredible story of survival. Awake & Dreaming opens on Bassil asking the audience to let him tell them “about a place where Muslims and Christians lived together as neighbors, where women could get an education…where you could feel safe inside your home.” “Now imagine that place...

Black men in America are in danger of many things. For those engaging in gay sex, there’s also the very real fear of contracting HIV. This is especially true for Southern black men engaging in sex with other men. While many have the misconception that HIV/AIDs isn’t as prevalent in the US as it was in the 80s or 90s, the disease is in fact now mostly found in communities of color. The Guardian reports that there’s a one in two...

Misinformation and fear led Drs. Jonathon Rendina and Jeffrey Parsons to explore whether gay and bi men actually believe that undetectable = untransmittable.. Last September, on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared that men with HIV who have an undetectable viral load—levels of HIV in the blood that are below the threshold of detection—are unable to transmit HIV to their partners. This is often summarized with the phrase Undetectable = Untransmittable or U...

Darryl Rowe was found guilty of five counts of GBH and five counts of attempted GBH A hairdresser found guilty of ‘deliberately infecting’ his Grindr dates with HIV was sentenced to life in prison today (18 April). Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh was guilty of five counts of GBH and five counts of attempted GBH. He infected at least five people after attempting to infect at least 10. Rowe now must spend a minimum of 10 years in prison. Pressured into bareback sex Other victims...

"I know Corey would have loved to have helped someone, but some poor family has lost out." After suffering a horrific car crash last month, New Zealander Corey Eteveneaux was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He died four days later, but his family’s grief turned to outrage when they learned Eteveneaux’s heart valves and corneas couldn’t be accepted for donation because he was gay. In New Zealand, men who have sex with other men are excluded from donating blood...

Big congratulations are in order for Corey Johnson, who just became elected speaker of the New York City council on Wednesday. Corey, who is openly gay, is the first person with HIV to be elected in this position, which happens to be the second most powerful elected official in city government outside of the mayor. “We believe in New York where no one is targeted simply because of who they are — Muslim New Yorkers, immigrants, the undocumented, African Americans, Jewish...

Dancing on Ice star Matt Evers has come out. The 41-year-old professional ice skater — who’s coming back to the ITV series on Sunday after a four-year hiatus — talks openly about his homosexuality in Attitude‘s upcoming travel issue. He’ll be paired up with Candice Brown, the Great British Bake Off winner, when he returns to the show this weekend. Once married to a woman, Evers reveals his uncle died 20 years ago from an HIV/AIDS-related illness and had been “banished” from...

The poignant story appeared on the AIDS Memorial Instagram page A heartbreaking posting to the @the_aids_memorial Instagram account is going viral and provoking comment. The account features images of people who died from HIV-related illness, along with memories recalled by loved ones. Every posting is poignant but also often celebratory – remembering the many lives lost to AIDS. This includes many gay men. A posting this week came via Steve Sobota, remembering his friend John Tenenbaum. The posting ran as follows ‘#JohnTenenbaum born Oct 18,...

A new Australian study has revealed that HIV-positive men whose virus levels are undetectable due to treatment do not infect their HIV-negative partners. The study was undertaken by The Kirby Institute of the University of New South Wales, which presented its findings Tuesday at the IAS Conference on HIV Science in Paris. NBC News reports: From 2012 to 2016, the study regularly checked in with 358 serodiscordant gay male couples (where one has HIV and the other does not) from Thailand, Brazil...

Raspado has long been an advocate for ending HIV and fighting stigma in the Philippines The first man from Southeast Asia to win Mr Gay World is not just a pretty face and wants to help the LGBTI community. John F. Raspado was the first Filipino to win the prestigious competition when he was crowned Mr Gay World 2017 in Madrid on Wednesday. On top of winning the title, Raspado also swept many of the top categories including; Best in Swimwear, Best...

Is it the last release before the unveiling of the iPhone 8? The iPhone is seeing red, and that’s a good thing. Apple revealed that special red editions of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will be available starting this Friday as part of its continued partnership with the (RED) program. The charity partners with brands that contribute portions of their profits to help fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa by providing testing, counseling, treatment and prevention programs. Apple has worked with the program...

According to a recent survey, roughly a third of people in Britain are convinced you can contract HIV by using the toothbrush of an infected person. The study by YouGov also suggests one in 10 people think you can catch HIV by a hairdresser’s scissors, which… we’d never heard that particularly myth before. The findings were released on December 1st as part of World AIDS Day to demonstrate that “inaccurate myths” are still very much entrenched in society in 2016. The Irish...