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POZ September 2000

POZ September 2000

In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.

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A User’s Guide to Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Med Meanies

Inside the Issue

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Long Live The Queens

A new guide to gay men’s health covers everything from AIDS to aging to anal sex—and that’s just the A’s.

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How To Vote

Some of Congress’ biggest AIDS foes (and friends) may go down to defeat at the polls this fall.

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Pills! Chills! Thrills! Spills!

Drugs that fight HIV and opportunistic infections are lengthening life spans, but the list of troubling side effects is also growing.

Keeping Up With The Jones

Cleve Jones created the epidemic’s most enduring symbol and got ready to die.

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Alabama Bound

AIDS quarantines are alive and well in Southern prisons, where HIVers die a slow death.

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Green Alert!

Just because herbs are natural doesn’t mean they can’t be nasty. Michael Onstott tells how to mix a safe plant-drug cocktail.

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Publisher’s Letter

For me, witnessing friends seroconvert—even being the confidante of others still negative but having unsafe sex—is an emotional minefield.

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Mailbox

I was very impressed by Brett Beasley’s courage to speak out against his cousin Jerry Falwell.

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Double Identity

Like some anti-HIV meds, the fare at “identity” film festivals is often well meaning but hard to stomach.

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Say What?

“It would be better to spend money on the poor and immigrants, because homosexuals are rich, from rich families.”

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Thespian Avengers

Pregnant Patricia finds out not only that she’s positive but that she got HIV from her two-timing husband.

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Catching Up With...

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Off-Line Service

Access is an AIDS, Inc. buzzword.

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Data Drill

You’re one of the lucky ones—the local ASO has a spiffy new computer with lightning-fast access to the Net.

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Hair Comes The Condoms

June is a hazy, sluggish month in North Carolina.

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There’s No Place Like Om

Craig’s body is sprawled on top of mine and we’re both breathing heavily.

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Straight To The Heart

end to stay away from social gatherings of HIV positives because, after a few, I knew that I was looking for more than tall, dark and...

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Milestones

It isn’t your typical teenager who holds a press conference to tell people he has AIDS.

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Second Sex First

A chilling picture of women and HIV emerges as you listen to the stories.

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Dis-Advantage-S

It wasn’t until 100 women became infected with HIV that UNAIDS and Miami-based Columbia Laboratories decided it was time to end their study.

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He’s All That

When Scott Hoeninger’s high school civics class required 12 hours of community service, he gave more than 100.

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Recovery Lite

Lillian Thiemann takes a trip to see Sandra Bullock in 28 Days, where it hits her that AA doesn’t stand for Academy Award.

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Road Trippin’

Our hemo-hero rock star Shawn Decker resurfaces after a 10-month drug binge feeling bruised and confused.

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Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

While climbing meds mountain, these four HIVers fell into the antiretroviral abyss. Here’s how they made their comeback. Sparkle!

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Change of Heart

Could your anti-HIV meds put you at risk for a heart attack?

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Crossing the Liver

Liver failure could get you before HIV does, and that mountain of meds you’re swallowing doesn’t help.

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Warning: Natural Selection

The dirt on herbs

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Dandelion Whine

Helpful hints to get out of hay-fever hell.

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Teen Talk

Ah, the hallmarks of youth: acne…MTV…an active thymus?

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Skin Deep

Bitchy itchies plagued Marlene Diaz, and a too-high type of white blood cell could have spelled allergies.

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Resistance Assistance

Once upon a time, viral load tests confused the hell out of everybody.

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Dishes On The Side

Where to find the inside scoop on anti-HIV drug side effects and recipes for overcoming them

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Kentucky Woman

Right before Belinda Mason died at 32 on September 9, 1991, she told her family, “Well, bye-bye y’all.”

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Comfort Zone

I have a sweet tooth beyond your wildest imagination, and as a once-obese person, I still battle my weight because of it.

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The Funky Fungus Among Us

Planning to pop antifungals to stop a rush of thrush? A new study advises that you resist the urge.

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