» Eviscerate Now!
"The Senate is near to pass ng a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief - a bill whose priorities are based on myth, just like virtually all anti-AIDS efforts worldwide…" Thus begins Michael Fumento's sickening op-ed on how our government's "wasting" money on HIV/AIDS, because straight white Americans aren't the most at-risk. And since the lives of blacks, Africans, gays, Asians and the rest of the gang don't matter, Congress should curtail this "abominable unfairness." Fermento's so sick, even Jesus is flipping him off. [NY Post] |
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A Queerty Exclusive!
In fact, Root would probably reject to being called a politician, unless it's - to use two of his own terms - as "the anti-politician" or "a citizen politician." While that may be true, as the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential nominee, Root and his running mate Bob Barr are hoping to make a political splash. The duo, both of whom were once Republicans, most likely won't win the White House, but most observers agree that their ticket threatens John McCain's candidacy, becoming this year's Ralph Nader. Root bristles at such talk, insisting he's in it to win it - and to set the dominant parties straight. |
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He and his cronies did, after all, use us for political gain and continue to poo-poo on the idea of same-sex marriage. Despite all that, however, Bush does deserve some lavender love, says activist David Benkof:
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Forty-nine year old Michael Neal had been instructed by the Department of Human Resources to inform all of his partners of his HIV status, but the hardheaded Neal simply refused and admitted to hitting up sex clubs sans condoms. The DHS repeatedly told Neal to report to them about his sexual antics, a request with which Neal didn't comply. According to testimony in the ongoing trial, Neal wasn't simply unsafe - he was malicious: [Neal] organised sex parties and wore a genital piercing to deliberately spread the virus to other men, a jury has been told. Neal now faces 34 charges, including knowingly infecting two people with HIV and attempting to infect 14 other men. |
» Bad Medicine.
South African Matthias Rath has been ordered to stop selling his "AIDS curing" multivitamins VitaCell. One activist celebrated the ruling thus: "This judgment is a victory for the rule of law and the scientific governance of medicine. Over the last decade in this country that rule of law has been contested by our minister of health and the president, and a culture of impunity has been created such that charlatans like Matthias Rath can get away with deceiving vulnerable people such that those people end up progressing to AIDS and dying." [Mamba] |
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And, unfortunately, they also have a big of a gay rape problem: "[Marcus Day of the Association of Caribbean Heads of Corrections and Prison Services] attributed the spread of HIV/AIDS infections in prisons to homosexual relationships among otherwise heterosexual men and homosexual rape, situations he said were rife in Caribbean prisons." On a related note, thanks to the AFP journo who made the article’s accompanying picture so digestible! |
» Dissection.
Despite what WHO says, AIDS remains one of the most challenging medical crises in human history. While death rates are dropping in some areas, one has to take a look at who's dying, where and why, which is exactly what journo Gary Taubes has done. Gruesome breakdown: "Though many of the most prominent deaths..tend to be of gay men, the percentage of the dead who contracted the disease through gay sex is now reportedly as low as 15 percent (with a large proportion still reported as unknown). Intravenous-drug users make up the biggest group, 38.5 percent, and women account for almost one in three of total AIDS deaths." [NY Mag] |
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» Blinders.
"A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared. In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/AIDS said there will be no generalised epidemic of AIDS in the heterosexual population outside Africa." [Independent via JMG] |
» Uganda Update
Ugandan gay activist and friend of Queerty Frank Mugisha sent us this update on the three AIDS activists arrested last week for protesting the government's unhealthy anti-gay policies: "The 3 Ugandan LGBT activists that were arrested at the HIV Implementers' Meeting in Kampala on the 4th of June 2008, have been released on bail this morning. The charges against them HAVE NOT BEEN DROPPED. They have been charged with Criminal Tresspass, under Section 302 of the Uganda Penal Code. All have pleaded "not guilty" and were released on a bail of 500,000 UGX ($310 USD)…The case was adjourned to the 20th of June 2008." Mugisha also encourages you to send protest emails to Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni [museveni@starcom.co.ug] and Minister of Justice Dr. Edward Kiddu Makubuya [mojca@africaonline.co.ug]. |
» Blockage.
"Lesbian and gay and sexual health groups from Jamaica, Zimbabwe and Egypt have been excluded from a major international conference on HIV/AIDS organised by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN meeting is intended to review progress in the fight against AIDS." [Pink News via GNW] |
» Au Naturale?
"Australian researchers said Wednesday they have developed a means of producing a "natural condom" which could prevent the spread of AIDS. The Melbourne researchers said they believe men could reduce their risk of contracting the HIV virus, which causes the deadly disease AIDS, by applying the female hormone, estrogen, to their penis once a week. University of Melbourne researcher Professor Roger Short said that use of an estrogen cream could quadruple the thin layer of the protein keratin on the skin and thereby provide a natural defensive layer. "You create what you could call a natural condom," [said] Short." [BreitBart] |
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