How do we make sense of culture that sometimes makes no damn sense at all? — In a word, this week has been exhausting. Although I’m not much of a political pundit, I’m constantly tuned in and there is still much to be said about the way in which our current economic, social, and political affairs have played out and have most certainly have played us…

OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, THOUSANDS OF BLACK LGBTQIA folks came to Washington, D.C. to attend Black Pride, an annual, weekend-long celebration that centers the experiences, education, and wellbeing of members of the Black LGBTQIA community. I wrote about my experience for Mask Magazine, you can read it here. The momentum for the Black Pride movement emerged during the AIDS crisis and redoubled throughout…

Sex on PrEP is safe sex. Safer, some argue, for HIV prevention than sex with a condom. — On Tuesday, the New York Times Opinion section published the polemic of Patrick William Kelly, a historian at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. Kelly suggests that “The nonchalant dismissal of the condom today flies in the face of the very culture of sexual health that gay…

Pride, marriage, and inclusion are small steps; what we need is a giant leap! — If you grew up watching the Disney Channel, then you might remember Ren Steven’s (played by Christy Carlson Romano) catchy tune: “We went to the moon in 1969. Not 1968 but the year after.” July 20, 1969, the day that men walked on the moon, is a day that lives…

Since its origin in the late 1960s, Pride has referenced a coalition of grassroots organizers, community members, activists, performers, sex workers, and gender and sexual subversives who come together to celebrate the diversity within the LGBTQ+ community. Marsha P. …

In mid-2018, our nation has become accustomed to the ramblings of a certain sitting president. While indiscriminately antagonistic of most, the president was somehow upstaged by former Alabama lawmaker Patricia Todd who on Wednesday allegedly outed Gov. Kay Ivey as a lesbian via Twitter and Facebook. “Will someone out her…

In I Love Capitalism: An American Story, Kenneth Langone of Home Depot fame opens with: “This book is my love song to capitalism. Capitalism works. Let me say it again: It works! And — I’m living proof — it can work for anybody and everybody. Blacks and whites and browns…

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration expanded an anti-HIV drug therapy to cover adolescents at risk for HIV exposure. The drug, PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), is a combination of two HIV medications–tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine–that when taken daily can lower the risk of HIV communication to near zero. In…