POZ April 1999
POZ April 1999
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
L.A. Confidential
HIV panic seized straight porn last year. Now, with high-tech testing and condom catchup, the industry is rushing to prevent an epidemic.
The High Cost of Living
The latest round of HIV meds may fatten up pharmaceuticals—and bankrupt drug assistance programs.
Fat Chance
Whether old-fashioned wasting or newfangled lipodystrophy, relief is possible
How to Make Art in an Epidemic
Visual artists turn from street posters to quiet elegies
Inside the Issue
Back to Life, Back to Reality: Ron Rosa
The New York Times calls it a “unique affliction,” a trauma matched only by death-camp survival.
Back to Life, Back to Reality: Michelle Lopez
The New York Times calls it a “unique affliction,” a trauma matched only by death-camp survival.
Back to Life, Back to Reality: Don Kao
The New York Times calls it a “unique affliction,” a trauma matched only by death-camp survival.
Back to Life, Back to Reality: Roy Mead
The New York Times calls it a “unique affliction,” a trauma matched only by death-camp survival.
Back to Life, Back to Reality: Linda Grinberg
The New York Times calls it a “unique affliction,” a trauma matched only by death-camp survival.
S.O.S.
Shortly after the packed, contentious community forum on barebacking that POZ cosponsored with GMHC and New York City’s Lesbian and Gay...
To the Editor
We knew we were taking on a touchy subject with the February 1999 “Boys Who Bareback” issue, and your deeply...
The Last Dance
GMHC won’t party like it’s 1999
Truth or DARE
New Jersey can’t stopper syringe-swapper
Piece of Mind
The NIH banks on HIVers’ brains
Poster of the Month: Absolutely Not Enough
ACT UP/NY ripped off the Absolut ad campaign in January for its latest wheatpasting drive to deliver a message in the bottle.
Hang a Right
Feds finger inmate’s suicide
Out in Africa
PWA murder spreads terror
Mutual Disgust
Insurance giant thwarted
8 Years to a Vaccine and Counting
For a December AIDS photo-op, Clinton met with his AIDS Advisory Council and AIDS czar Sandra Thurman.
Say What
“She empathizes so much with pain and suffering that it throws her off course...”
POZarazzi: Shock Troops
Movers, shakers and troublemakers
High Time
Medical marijuana is rolling along as antidrug legislators dig in
POZ Picks
It’s perfectly all right to be flip about Chuck Nanney’s recent work.
Obits
Mark Bucko, 38; Paul Corser, 37; Simon Tseko Nkoli, 41
The Seven-Year Itch
When your body-as-temple becomes a little shop of horrors
Varsity Blues
A very queer straight man makes a Hail Mary pass for community
A Woman Under the Influence
How a good fella put a spin on her virus
Integration Now
After years of doctors’ narrowly focusing on drugs as the be-all of HIV treatment, one aspect of AIDS is inspiring a more integrated...
Get Over It
Free advice and a shot of attitude for what ails you.
A Pocketful of Protein
Seizing the time-honored Trojan Horse strategy, scientists from Washington University School of Medicine have found a way to sneak...
Under-Celling PWAs
It’s the virus, stupid. Still true, but HIV’s main effect may not be what we’d thought.
Brain Storm
Memantine, a drug long used in Europe for dementia in the elderly, may help restore impaired brain-cell function in PWAs.
Reefer Rap
Tips for medical marijuana mavens
Get Baked
Someone’s in the kitchen with Mary Jane.
All You Can Eat
No wasting! Pour on the calories, stoke up the appetite.
Raging Hormones
Testosterone shots have shut off Stephen’s home-grown stock
Het Connect
Socials and support for positive heteros
Where to Find It
Liquid lunch, anyone?
Frequent Flyer
New Zealander Chris Arneson keeps coming back for more
April Showers . . .
April Showers . . .
Payback Time
April 15 is Tax Day. Here’s a guide for the chronically noncompliant.
From Fruits to Nuts
Every guy on the go needs a Little Black Book, and one of the best comes courtesy of Queer Corps.
When Adam Met Eve
What good is sitting alone in your room? Your newest ex-lover or best friend may be just a mouse click away.
Aunt Evelyn’s Letters
New Yorker Barton Benes saved thousands of letters written in the ’70s by his Aunt Evelyn, a Florida widow and confirmed crank.
