The 32-year-old statute was enacted during the height of homophobic panic about HIV and AIDS.
Tag: HIV
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Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house
Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, which was felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
Posted inNews & Politics
When crime goes viral
Activists say Illinois’s law that makes it illegal to expose others to HIV is racist and homophobic. Now they’re close to changing it.
Posted inArts & Culture
Pink Orchids and The Green Bay Tree look back at the bad old days of 20th-century queer life
The AIDS crisis! The evil gay villain!
Posted inNews & Politics
The hidden ME too: 100,000 people in Illinois could suffer from debilitating disease
Chicago researchers are searching for a cure for ME, which is more widespread and serious than previously thought.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
‘Help, my penis is bent up at a 90-degree angle!’
WTF? A urologist explains. Plus: Dan counsels a lad newly diagnosed as HIV positive and a married man with an uncooperative member.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Should a hookup who lied about his HIV status get a second chance?
Dan weighs in. Plus: tips for a sexually frustrated young wife and a sexually frustrated young woman
Posted inBlogs
If Trump cuts HIV funding it could devastate public health, LGBTQ groups warn
A failure to reauthorize the Ryan White Care Act, coupled with the possible repeal of Obamacare, could be devastating for people living with AIDS.
Posted inArts & Culture
Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
No vasectomy, no more open marriage?
A wife wants her husband snipped—or else. Plus: a solution for the sexually fickle, a possible dastardly dick, and a self-described straight 64-year-old who wants to try “the gay side of life”
Posted inBlogs
LGBTQ people were especially screwed by Illinois’s budget impasse
Even with the stopgap deal, government inaction was bad news for queer and trans people.
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The alleged David Cameron-Brexit-O’Hare-pizza connection, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicagoan Raj Fernando is at the center of a Trump-Clinton feud.
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Orlando shooting renews debate on blood donations from gay and bisexual men
Men who’ve had sex with men in the past year are still prohibited from giving blood. Researchers and politicians in Illinois say that needs to change.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Savage guide to taking a man’s virginity
Dan Savage’s advice on taking the virginity of a 25-year-old Muslim virgin, coping with a BDSM master who thinks he owns you, and more
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Is a sister’s privacy more important than her health?
Dan on family health secrets, gender-neutral fashion, and how to get the group sex experience you deserve.