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Prevention Experts, Community, Sound Alarm on LA’s Meth Crisis
COVID-19 may be fueling an increase in meth use, not reducing it.
Artist Devin N. Morris Explores COVID and Isolation Through His Art
Today there are many Black queer artists creating in isolation, consciously (or not) documenting their progression through this pandemic where previous generations couldn’t.
This Best-Selling Author Is Writing Life Into Queer Black Boyhood
TheBody contributor George M. Johnson discusses their debut best-selling memoir, ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue.’
Alabama HIV Activist Talks About His New ‘Fictionalized Memoir’
Tony Christon-Walker’s Walking in Truth: Fatherhood is Part One of a trilogy he’s planning about his life as an openly HIV-positive Black gay man in the Deep South.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Another Instance of Black Death in America
Black people are left to die so that the American dream can continue to thrive.
For Trans People to Access PrEP, Systemic Barriers Have to Go
Clinics and AIDS service organizations have a responsibility to make sure their programs are welcoming and accessible to trans people.
5 Ways the ‘Greenleaf’ HIV Storyline Missed an Opportunity to Educate Viewers
The popular drama on OWN doesn’t even get the basics of HIV right.
To the ‘Greenleaf’ Writers and Tyler Perry: HIV Is Not a Plot Twist for the Sake of Drama
There are no monsters, just viruses.
Did a Racial Power Imbalance Lead to a Pair of Firings at a Michigan HIV Agency?
CARES is among many nonprofits serving people of color but with mainly white leadership. When and how will that change?
The New York Times’ 1981 ‘Gay Cancer’ Story Continues to Distort Early AIDS History
As we remember the 39th anniversary of this landmark news story on the unfolding of the HIV pandemic, we must correct the record.