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Patrick Califia

Patrick Califia is an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality (formerly known as Pat Califia, Patricia Califia and Patrick Califia-Rice).

Articles

To Kiss and Tell

Our intrepid shrink, Patrick Califia, puts three disclosure doozies on the couch

The Lying Game

For HIVers who tell fibs about their status to get others into bed, therapist Patrick Calif reads between the lies

Cunning Linguist

Neggie boyfriend won’t go downtown -- what’s a viral Venus to do? Therapist Patrick Califia gives the blow by blow.

Love Handles

Falling in love but feeling infectious? Therapist Patrick Califia helps you get a grip on HIV intimacy issues.

Vagina Monologues

The fact that girl-to-guy transmission is nearly nonexistent has turned five women who thought they had killer vaginas into...

The Waters of Babylon

Puritanical, self-loathing gays vs. suicidal advocates of extreme sex: Much mud was slung in the San Francisco bathhouse wars of 1984.

Magical Mystery Cure

For 20 years we have bled, sweat and wept for an end to AIDS. Patrick Califia-Rice asks what we talk about when we talk about a cure.

The Medium Is The Message

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Love Me Gender

Transgendered people with HIV are making the system work for them.

The Way We Live Now: Pat Califia

Writer, Sex Radical

The Necessity of Excess

More and more of late, I find myself thinking about the late ’70s and early ’80s.

Lord of the Guys

International Mr. Leather flaunts his family values

The Symphony Plays On

Edmund White on being a lone wolf and longtime survivor, teddy bear and rapist...and why he stopped speaking to Larry Kramer

Working Girls

Nevada’s prostitutes can get licensed, tested and taxed

Harlot’s Web

A sex radical bares all about AIDS in the Commercial-sex industry