POZ June 1997
POZ June 1997
In every issue of POZ, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
Nowhere Else to Go
From Detroit to Chicago to San Francisco to Atlanta -- with one visible stop on MTV’s The Real World -- Sean Sasser has nowhere else to go
Inside the Issue
Great Escapes
From bubbling mineral waters to cool seaweed wraps, spas can offer a balm for what ails you
Gotta Light?
Drug Cocktails promise longer lives. Will positive smokers kiss their butts goodbye?
The Great Sex Debate
Must gay men choose between monogamy and extinction?
Made in Japan
To genre-bending Japanese painter Masami Teraoka, AIDS is a world war too
Clipped Wings
Artist Rebecca Guberman shoots her legacy in cold blood
The Vinyl Solution
D.L. Long is a boy who plays with dolls
Into the Woods
Former hermit Steven Wolf paints the Blues
Hazel’s House
Hazel Johnson paints herself out of a corner
Open Windows
Songwriter Steve Schalchlin looks past “The Last Session”
S.O.S.-June 1997
Talking about sex in an intelligent way is tough
Mailbox-June 2007
Thanks for David Thorpe’s article “Filling Station” (February/March 2007) about lipoatrophy treatment.
Ad Lip
In-your-face poster enrages friends and foes
A Higher Standard
Groundbreaking guidelines for treatment of HIV
Just Not Like a Prayer
Research ads ripped by religious
Who’s Sore-y Now?
Herpes harbors high levels of HIV
Say What-June 1997
“In January, Hillary Clinton gained much publicity by reading to children on a pediatrics ward.”
Devil to Pay
People wih hemophilia wait for redemption
Web of Cries
The Age of Protease is anything but democratic. In fact, the new drugs fail as many as a third of the people who try them.
On Pins and Needles
Syringe-swap in showdown with city
Fatal Attraction
Ecstasy + Norvir = lethal mix
Cocktails for Kids
After long wait, pediatric protease
To B or Not to B
Vitamin B-12 levels linked to survival
Pot Doc Stalked
Hot pursuit of foothills physician
Obituaries
Christopher Boatwright, a classical ballet dancer, died of AIDS March 1 in San Francisco. He was 42.
Alexander the Great(ish)
Proving he’s no George Costanza, Seinfeld’s schmuck takes a risk
POZ Picks-June 1997
In 1995, Mutual of Omaha began selling a tour and cruise travel insurance policy that waives all pre-existing conditions.
Skin Traders
Hustlers are chic once more as sex makes a comeback at the movies. But where’s AIDS?
Absolutely Fabregas
The Spaniard, the diva and the conference in exile
Barbarians at the Gates
A Brit with HIV reports from the other side of the ban
Borders on Madness
Leader of the Free World to immigrants with HIV: “Keep out!”
A Second Look
The inventors of safe sex weigh in
Painful Truths
One veteran slut converts to sexual ecology
Before the Revolution
Another takes aim at recent activism
Riding Bareback
Skin-on-skin sex--been there, done that, want more
The Fleecing of Oprah
Long-distance lovers call on the queen of daytime
Barrier Blues
Walls that have come tumbling down are almost impossible to rebuild
Mixed and Matched
One’s positive, the other’s negative, but the relationship has an identity of its own
To Tell the Truth
Is lying to an intolerant doctor about your treatments ever justifiable?
The Borders of Health
Tips for HIV positive travelers
Road Trip Grub Tips
How PWAs can eat, drink and be merry while exploring the world
Following Your HAART
A note of caution on Sean Strub’s viral-load drops from antiretroviral therapy
TLC for Your Largest Organ
Sunscreens and prudent avoidance can help prevent health-threatening burns
Art and Soul
Patrick O’Connell paints a picture of two worlds: His art and his AIDS
Farewells
The best of underwear loses its elastic.
