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The My Fabulous Disease Holiday Spectacular!
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
(I can't resist posting this each Holiday Season. The video below is my very favorite, of the more than 70 I have produced over the years. Enjoy!)
My mother's home here in Shreveport, Louisiana, was fraught with excitement last week. Christmas decorations littered the living room, the almond scent of cookies filled the air, and last minute phone calls and arrangements made it all feel like a major production was underway.
And there was. The event that had everyone scrambling was held on a Sunday afternoon, when siblings and extended family arrived for the taping of The 'My Fabulous Disease' Holiday Spectacular.
I am an extremely blessed and fortunate man.
When I was young, I remember watching "The King Family" on television (right), a big happy bunch that sang really well and wore lots of matching outfits. I was starstruck, and always wondered if that King family might bear some relation to mine. And if they didn't, would they let me come be on their show anyway?
Well, today, I'm proud of my own family for displaying our dubious talents, and by going a big step further by discussing the importance of supporting those of us living with HIV/AIDS. For far too many, the difficulty in disclosing our status — or the result of doing so — has distanced them from the people they need most during times of challenge.
The Holiday Spectacular includes some family greetings, a cooking segment with Mom (you'll want that divine almond scent wafting through your home, too), some holiday drag, a surprise here and there, and even an appearance by the big man himself, Santa Claus.
You may remember my mother from "What it Feels Like for a Mom," a bracingly honest video created for Mother's Day. You might also remember my gay brother Dick, who made an It Gets Better video with me. He was also one of the main subjects of the award winning "Once, When We Were Heroes" posting I made for World AIDS Day several years ago. But today, you're also going to meet sisters, nieces and in-laws who have special holiday greetings just for you.
Enjoy the holiday special, my friends. I hope you'll share it with anyone that could use some holiday cheer, or needs a reminder that they are loved. And as always, please be well.
p.s. As promised in the video, here is the recipe for Mom's Christmas Cookies. I'm certain they're fantastic for your t-cells.
(Note: Mother uses a MIRRO Food Press, a device that must have been manufactured during the Eisenhower era, judging from the faded instruction manual she still keeps handy. I found one on E-Bay for you for less than four bucks, or you can use a more modern appliance, if you must. I don't guarantee the cookies will taste the same!)
Time: 10-12 minutes… Temp: 375F… Yield: 7 dozen
1 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/8 tspn salt
1/4 tspn baking soda
1 tspn almond extract
2 1/4 cups sifted flour
Green food coloring
1. Cream shortening, adding sugar gradually
2. Add unbeaten egg, dry ingredients, flavoring, and a few drops of food coloring. Mix well.
3. Fill the cookie press and form cookies on ungreased sheet. Sprinkle with sugar and bake.
4. Frost and sprinkle something fabulous on top of them (this is Mom's provocative departure from the original recipe. That's just how she rolls.).
Tags: acting, Aging, aids, culture, drag, family, gay, gratitude, help others, hiv, recovery, Recreation
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HIV+ Gay Men Have Their Say in "The Infection Monologues"
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
A variety of gay men spill their guts about their lives and HIV diagnosis. They are bracingly honest, sexually explicit, heartbreaking and hilarious. They are the men of The Infection Monologues, a theatrical event getting a 10th Anniversary staged reading at the Human Rights Campaign this Wednesday, December 2, 2015.
The event is FREE, with food and drinks starting at 6:00pm and the performance at 7:00pm. You can RSVP right here.
Created by the enormously influential gay anthropologist Eric Rofes (Reviving the Tribe), and written by Rofes and writer and advocate Alex Garner, The Infection Monologues provides a snapshot of the lives of gay men living in the epicenter of the crisis, and is based on hours of real-life interviews.
Eric Rofes died far too soon, taken by a heart attack in 2006 not long after The Infection Monologues premiered. Alex Garner has continued a respected career as a journalist and HIV advocate, currently leading a national PrEP education effort for the National Minority AIDS Council.
Alex and I had a chat about the play, the politics of barebacking, gay "respectability," and putting gay sex back into the social agenda.
First of all, Alex, congrats on having this work of art revived after ten years.
Thanks, Mark. We are excited to be able to breathe life into this script again. I always learn something new when I reread it.
Can I give a shout-out to the late, great, gay anthropologist Eric Rofes, with whom you wrote the play? His book Reviving the Tribe changed my advocacy forever. I recently read it again.
I can't say enough great things about Eric Rofes. None of this would have been possible without his insight and vision. His impact is ongoing and his books changed me, too.
I invited Eric to lead a gay men's town hall forum in Atlanta in the mid-1990's. He was the first person I knew to say publicly that bareback sex was critical to his sexual experience. He said it that night, and it was like a bomb went off in the auditorium. I thought the attendees would riot.
Eric was ahead of his time but such a needed voice about gay sex and gay men's health. Those early years of the bareback debate were so raw and emotional — no pun intended.
I'm wondering if the themes in The Infection Monologues have remain constant, or if we've seen any progress at all…
The themes remain constant in so many ways but the world has changed drastically. The themes of stigma, disclosure, dating/relationships, and sex are just as relevant and compelling today but scientific advancements — treatment as prevention and PrEP — have radically changed the landscape.
Does it feel like something is missing not talking about PrEP, then? I think the stigma underscoring PrEP among gay men has really always been there.
I don't think it feels like something is missing. I think it feels like a specific moment in time. The more things changes the more things stay the same. Much of the stigma associated with PrEP is the stigma associated with condomless sex. The bareback debate has simply evolved because of PrEP and unfortunately some PrEP users utilize PrEP as their shield of respectability: "I'm responsible" or "I'm protected so it's ok when I bareback." I have zero interest in respectability politics.
The voices in The Infection Monologues are such complete human beings. Funny, flawed, horny, scared. Tell me the process of how those voices came to be.
Eric was a great researcher and he conducted initial interviews of men who seroconverted after 2000. We used that research, as well as my own lived experience to create the three core characters. The additional characters were developed from writers in Los Angeles who drew from their lived experiences.
I'm all about telling the story of what happened to us — and what continues to happen. But these days it feels like so many of our wounds in the gay community are self-inflicted. Is that a fair observation?
I don't think that is a fair observation. I don't like that term. So much of our struggles are still institutionalized, whether it's around homophobia and stigma, poverty, transphobia and sexism, lack of education, religion, etc. I believe we haven't focused enough on our resiliency. As a community we endured the worst epidemic in modern history yet the lessons from that seem to be unknown. How did we survive? How did we find community, support, hope? How did we lose or find our humanity and how did we decide they were not going to destroy us. Ours is such a struggle of resistance and I think much of that has been understood simply in the modern marriage equality context.
Some advocates draw a straight line from the AIDS crisis to marriage equality. Do you agree?
I do see a straight line but not necessarily in the same way. The advent of anti-retrovirals allowed us to be healthy, presentable, and respectable. The movement could drop the messy, icky part and the part dealing with our sex, and focus on love and respectability. Strategically it was a brilliant move, but the impact was a desexualized movement. We now have the opportunity to make sex, pleasure and intimacy a top priority of our lives and our politics.
In my everyday life, I'm often torn between wanting to "tell the story" at every opportunity of what happened to us, and thinking I should just shut up already. Something about the trauma we experienced comes back to me, in some way, every damn day. So of course, the choice is to keep talking.
Who are we if not a collection of stories? That is art at its core and for those of us who have been marginalized, stories are a way to exert our humanity.
I'm honored I get to read the role of the "older" gay guy in the play. Actually, I'm actually older than the older gay character I am reading. Don't get me started. I'll use concealer that night.
(laughs) The "older" gay man is a very important perspective in the epidemic especially because he seroconverted after having lived through the war years. So much great complex emotion there.
Congratulations, Alex. It's nice having a dialogue about the monologues.
Thanks. And I hope that others will explore creative ways to tell the stories of our complex and fascinating community.
Tags: aids, barebacking, culture, gay, hiv, physical, politics, PrEP, Recreation, Sexuality, testing
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The Charlie Sheen Moment You Probably Missed
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
The subtle moment came during the second segment of Matt Lauer's explosive interview with actor Charlie Sheen. It impressed me so deeply I actually backed up my recording and watched it twice more.
Sheen had already endured the first segment of his time with Lauer, during which he resembled an uneasy hostage trying to charm his captors. Gone were most of the features of the train wreck we have come to know as Charlie Sheen: the mania, the twitches and glazed eyes, the bloviated pronouncements delivered with the bravado of a crack cocaine messiah.
That public meltdown was in 2011, a millennia in celebrity years. The humbled, visibly nervous man on The Today Show had his back against a wall, forced to reveal his HIV positive status on the eve of venomous tabloids doing it for him.
And so, the immensely privileged actor found himself in a position known all too well by those of us who live with HIV: having to disclose our status and pray to God the response will be at least civil, if not empathetic. Except, of course, Sheen did it under the blaze of studio lighting, with high definition cameras searching for any betraying signals on a face layered with makeup and apprehension.
The moment that transfixed me came after an endless commercial break – several minutes of corporate pigs at the trough, lapping up the ratings slop of Sheen's misfortune. Sheen had already made his HIV disclosure and had begun building a case against the extortions of his former sex partners and confidantes. It wasn't the most relatable storyline with which to lead, but it was presented through a veiled, undeniable personal agony.
And then, Lauer announced he had messages from Twitter he wanted to share, fresh off the internet presses, containing reactions to Sheen's HIV disclosure from the town square of cyberspace. Sheen's face changed. On live television, in front of a blockbuster audience the world over, Charlie Sheen would now hear exactly what people thought of him, his story, and most unnervingly, his HIV status.
Lauer began to read. "Laura says, 'You have brought me to tears. I am profoundly touched by your honesty…'" The camera had moved to a graphic of the tweets and Sheen was not visible. Lauer was continuing with a second message. "For the first time in a long time you can be proud of yourself," he read, "Now you're really winning."
The camera cut to Sheen, who fumbled out a "wow… that's lovely," although he still seemed to be holding his breath. Lauer continued with a third message. "Now you own your truth," the message read. "Good on you, Charlie Sheen. Respect."
And it was in this moment, as Lauer finished the third of three consecutive responses, all of them supportive, that the camera revealed something barely perceptible but achingly human.
Charlie Sheen raised his shoulders slightly in a shallow intake of breath, and then let it out, shifting in his chair as if to mask it, while his eyes found a place of exquisite, emotional relief that no mere actor could ever muster.
It was the sigh of a thousand gulps of air, the release of months of secrecy and loneliness, of doubt and the very real fear of what lies beyond the words "I am HIV positive."
It was then that I recognized the man on the television screen. He was every HIV positive person who has ever had to make a revelation that holds the acceptance of our loved ones and co-workers and friends in its precarious balance. And, at least in that instant, fate was merciful to Charlie Sheen.
The backlash, as if duty bound, has begun. Much has been breathlessly reported about the veracity of Sheen's statements, the lawsuits, the blame and recriminations, and even his residual tiger blood bluster that he might be the man to deliver a cure. None of the nonsense to come can nullify the fact that the critical words "undetectable viral load" have been written, spoken, and defined more in the last few days than in the entire history of HIV advocacy.
There will be plenty of time to assess the fallout of Charlie Sheen's disclosure, for better or worse. For now, I remain struck by the eyes of a vulnerable man during his singular, desperate moment of grace.
And in them, a glimmer of hope for us all.
There has been so much inspiring public advocacy and reporting amid the obscene hysteria of much of the media firestorm. Some of the media pieces I especially appreciate include a USA Today piece on this teachable moment, a Daily Dot article on the insanity of HIV criminalization, Lambda Legal's critical reference guide to speaking about Sheen, the CNN Headline News segment I did with Rae Lewis-Thornton about what it is like living with HIV in the here and now, TheBody's insightful fact-checking of the Sheen interview, and Gus Cairn's Huffington Post piece about our new, reluctant HIV poster boy. There are surely many more to come.
Tags: aids, culture, hiv, physician, recovery, testing
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Why I Wiped HIV Off My Face
Friday, November 6th, 2015
Some years ago, I told someone that I was HIV positive before I agreed to his invitation for a date. "Yeah, I know," he casually replied, and then he looked a little embarrassed, as if he shouldn't have said it. It was too late, of course; I knew exactly what he meant. He could tell my HIV status by my face.
I had The Look. The sunken, wasted cheeks of someone living with HIV. It became a common manifestation in the 1980's and persisted until the medications that caused the condition, known as facial lipoatrophy, were changed or abandoned for better treatment. (That's me, right, in 2008.)
Today, facial lipoatrophy is almost exclusively limited to long-term HIV survivors who used medications like d4t and ddi more than twenty years ago.
I'm one of those long-term survivors. I am proud of my history advocating and living with HIV. But as uncomfortable as it may be to admit, it's a lot easier to live openly as a person with HIV when you don't look like it.
When the symptoms began to appear, it meant that the choice to share my status, as an activist or on a personal level, had been taken away. My HIV was written across my face for all to see.
I felt ashamed, and then conflicted. For someone who has been fighting so hard to reduce HIV stigma, what is there to be ashamed of, exactly? Many of the physical signs of HIV treatment – from weight loss to fat redistribution to facial wasting – are worn as battle scars, if not badges of honor, by thousands of people living with HIV. My disease is mirrored in my physicality. What's wrong with that?
Eventually, I realized that correcting my facial wasting was no different than improving my t-cell counts. I wasn't making a political statement, I was improving my health and well-being.
And so, I began a journey that would include multiple visits to a specialist and more than $20,000 worth of various "facial filler" products injected into my face. My biggest advantage was the physician I chose: Dr. Gerald Pierone, arguably the most experienced person in the country on facial fillers and a contributor to TheBody.com. (That's me, at right, last week.)
Along the way I chronicled my journey through video blogs. They span more than six years, explicitly show the treatments in Dr. Pierone's office as well as before and after footage, and include a wealth of information and advice about getting facial lipoatrophy treatment, the products involved, and their relative costs.
Here are three of those videos that are probably the most helpful.
A Facial Wasting Update
February, 2010
In this video, below, I chronicle my third visit to Dr. Pierone, who checks up on my progress with temporary fillers Sculptra and Radiesse, and offers his own perspective on my treatment regimen. It is a good introduction to facial lipoatrophy and the treatment available.
I'm Gonna Wipe That AIDS Right Off My Face
July, 2011
Once again I return to Dr. Pierone for a check-up, but this time I inquire about a new, semi-permanent filler now known as BellaFill (formerly Artefill). This video also includes a lot of information about patient assistance programs for the temporary fillers.
Treating My Facial Wasting with Artefill
January, 2013
Switching to this permanent filler, now known as Bellafill, was the best decision I made. No more disappearance of the temporary fillers over time! Although this semi-permanent filler does not have a patient assistance program and can be quite expensive, I must say that the results have been dramatic and long-lasting.
One thing these videos make clear: facial fillers are not the fountain of youth, no matter what The Real Housewives may think. You can clearly see my own aging process through the years in these videos. What they do show, however, is my face as it would have been: aging naturally as if HIV wasting had never been an issue.
If you have any questions, I would encourage you to direct them to Dr. Gerald Pierone in the Ask the Experts forum at TheBody.com. I cannot recommend his expertise highly enough.
And as always, my friends, please be well.
Tags: aids, gay, hiv, lipo, physician, Radiesse, research, Sculptra
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Two Minutes of Advice for Those Testing HIV Positive
Saturday, October 10th, 2015
This is a clever social media campaign: Healthline, an online health community, has asked people who have been living with HIV to create videos for those who have recently tested positive, known as "You've Got This." Think of it as "It Gets Better" for those with HIV.
Of course, I had to create a video in my own peculiar way — something that demonstrates the sense of humor that has served me well over the course of 30 years living with HIV. Maybe my video will help someone you know.
To be honest, I barely remember testing positive in 1985, when the test became publicly available (my doctor and I estimated my infection may have occurred as far back as 1981). I was already self-medicating with a growing drug addiction — it was Los Angeles, I was young and stupid, and people started dying; cocaine seemed like a reasonable response at the time — and the test result felt like my license to continue using.
Today, it's hard for me to recall a time in which I was afraid of becoming infected. I only know a life living with the virus, and my fears of HIV itself are long past. So I should probably approach any advice for the newly infected with care. They are experiencing a profound event that happened to me a lifetime ago. I hope my light touch will give them a needed lift or bring them a smile.
It's easy to make the mistake of assuming new infections only happen to younger people, and I even make an apologetic joke in the video about my being "old." The fact is, most new infections in the United States happen to people over 30, not under. We might want to check ourselves when we bemoan infections among "these kids today" (although of the various age groups with new infections, those under 30 remains the largest).
To participate in "You've Got This" with a video of your own, visit the Healthline site for details. Or leave your own words of advice in the comments section below!
Meanwhile, please be well.
(This post originally appeared in September of 2013, but my advice hasn't changed a bit — please do consider drag — so I thought I would post this again.)
Tags: advocacy, aids, drag, gratitude, help others, hiv, physician, testing
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Catching Up with the First Miss America to Champion AIDS Awareness
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
When Miss Florida 1992, Leanza Cornett, competed for the crown of Miss America 1993, she didn't just have gay hearts aflutter over our love for pageant competitions. We adored her because she proudly chose an AIDS awareness platform — and she meant it down to her lovely bones.
When she won, she made good on her promise to bring HIV issues to an audience that wasn't used to Miss America hanging out with dying gay men or performing condom demonstrations.
My interview with the groundbreaking title-holder is proof that, more than twenty years later, she is as feisty as ever. Our chat includes her HIV advocacy memories, some backstage dish from the pageant, recovery, sex, her love for the gays, and whatever happened to that jeweled, delicate crown.
Tell me about your exposure, as it were, to the AIDS crisis prior to becoming Miss Florida in 1992. Was it already on your mind?
The first time I heard the word "AIDS" I was 11 years old. It was 1982 and I heard a newscaster say the word and what I remember most was that it was a disease that was killing people. I was in my very small Appalachian hometown of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and I went into full panic mode because I had eaten almost an entire box of what I thought was candy, called "AYDS" at my grandmother's house. (AYDS was a chocolate diet suppressant, I found out later). So, as an 11 year old, I thought I was surely doomed. Fast forward, as years progressed so did the disease and thankfully so did our knowledge. When I was 16, I began working professionally in theater and met someone living with AIDS, an actor and a friend. Suddenly, the news story had a face, a name and a relationship with me.
During 1991, the year you were crowned Miss Florida, nearly 30,000 people in the US died of AIDS, and it was the leading cause of death among those age 24-44. It's sometimes easy to forget the nightmare of those statistics.
By 1991, I was volunteering at two different places in Florida. Hope and Help, was an HIV service organization in Orlando. I did everything from answering phones to taking clients to doctor appointments. That's where I met Guy Carswell, who became my best friend. I took him to appointments where he would have his Karposi Sarcoma (KS) lesions frozen off. I left every appointment with him in tears but also feeling incredibly empowered that the doctors were making strides toward a cure.
I saw an article in the Orlando Sentinel about a couple who had decided to take in foster children that were born with HIV. Jim and Charlene White turned their home into a non-profit organization called Serenity House and I began volunteering twice a week, taking care of those sweet children. Some were newborn infants and a few were toddlers. It was that year that I competed in Miss Florida and won. So yes, it was very much already on my mind and a huge part of my life.
Was AIDS your platform for the Miss Florida pageant?
No, and I regret that. I listened to people who said I'd never win, it was too controversial. I always felt like that was a compromise I should never have made. But, in the long run, if it had been something standing in the way, I may never have had the national platform I ended up with. Funny how things work out.
Tell me about how you decided to use AIDS as your Miss America platform, then. I have to assume it wasn't a popular choice. Did you get pushback from your sponsors or pageant officials?
I had decided to champion AIDS as my cause going to Miss America no matter what. I met with the Executive Director of Miss Florida and told her and the rest of the Board that it wasn't an option for me to do or speak out for anything else. The Florida board and everyone I worked with supported me wholeheartedly. I was surprised, simply because in 1992 the only people you heard about as activists were groups like ACT UP.
I absolutely must know about the final moments, among the finalists, before you were crowned and when you name was called as Miss America 1992. Please, spare no emotional detail! I live vicariously for this sort of thing.
I knew I was going to make Top Ten at Miss America, not because I was super egotistical or clairvoyant, but because a hairdresser had seen the list and I was on it and she told me. I even knew where I was in the placement — number six. So I was pretty thrilled with just that alone. Once I made it to the Top Five and I got to speak and answer questions about my platform on stage, that was the cherry on top. For me, personally, that would've been enough.
Thank God for video because I honestly don't remember those final moments except for what I witness in watching it back now. I remember saying to Miss Iowa (Cathy Herd) that she would make a great Miss America. Everyone thought she would win — she was a double preliminary winner. I remember when Regis Philbin announced me as the new Miss America that it must be a mistake. I was wearing white gloves and I remember thinking that they were borrowed and I didn't want to get makeup on them when I wiped my tears. I thought about the boyfriend who'd broken up with me and hoped he and his whole family were watching. I was just stunned. Completely stunned. Have never been so shocked in my whole life.
Hold on one minute. Your boyfriend broke up with you before the pageant? Is the best revenge winning Miss America?
No, he broke up with me my first year of college, and funny enough, we're still friends today. But he broke my heart and I wanted to see him squirm, that's for sure.
I happen to have a sash and crown in the back of my closet, for the 2015 Miss Summer Serenity Pageant, a camp drag thing they do in Washington to benefit people in recovery like me. So, take that. I didn't cry when I won, I was very regal. Although those sharp stays in the crown were killing me.
I love it that you have a crown and sash…everyone in recovery deserves that but I'm especially glad you won!
Are contestants by and large sincere and gracious behind the scenes, worse, or somewhere in between, like all of us?
I think by the time most contestants get to Miss America, the catty ones have been weeded out. Girls are girls just like gays are gays (laughs) but it's kept in check during pageant week. It felt less like a competition and more like putting on a great show. I'm still friends and communicate often with several of the girls from my year.
I know gay men who can rattle off former title-holders, their states, and what color they wore for swimsuit. I remember actual squeals coming from my gay friends when we saw you backstage at the Shanti Tribute to Peter Allen in 1993. We're talking high-pitched sirens of delight.
I'm very, very proud to have been able to speak out on behalf of People Living with AIDS and gay men who probably suffered the most, especially during those early years. I think I confused the lesbians, because they typically hated Miss America, but loved anyone who stood up for AIDS. I was a conundrum!
Of course, your appearance at that event for Shanti was a bittersweet moment for me, as you know I have written about. You accompanied our founding director, Daniel P. Warner, to the event, and he was covered in KS lesions. You handled yourself with such graciousness toward him, holding tight to his arm.
Because I was so closely involved as a volunteer prior to ever winning, I felt really comfortable with a hands on, no-holds barred approach. I was criticized and questioned many times along the way. I remember I was photographed at a hospital kissing a child who was HIV positive and it made the front page of the paper. I got so much mail over that!
Thanks for referring to us as "people living with AIDS" during that time. You know your language.
I was reading an article published in People Magazine about the AIDS epidemic and the journalist kept referring to the people she was profiling as "victims." I wrote a letter to People, correcting the journalist and explaining how important it was to write about "people living with AIDS" as opposed to victims. They published the letter, and a few months later I was in attendance at a Ryan White Awards banquet and Greg Louganis was a speaker. He cited my letter to People and thanked me for standing up for PLWAs. It was a God-shot for me, proof that standing up and speaking out reaches to so many places.
Speaking of God, you're a woman of faith, and so many people with AIDS were traumatized by some of the rhetoric by religious fundamentalists during the early years. I'm thinking Jerry Falwell, for instance. How did you reconcile that, or explain to conservatives the importance of ministering, in the truest sense, to those living with the disease?
Great question. Well, I don't know anyone who hasn't been traumatized by religious fundamentalists at some point, no matter if it had to do with AIDS or anything else. I definitely felt the sting of that while I was in the thick of advocacy. Thankfully, I have a lot of Biblical training and knowledge, and anytime I felt I had to reconcile anything, I could always refer to the love, the merciful love that Christ shows to all of us. I understand that even more, in recovery, because that gift of powerlessness — knowing that we can't control what people think or say or believe — it's very freeing. The most important thing is to love, to show tolerance. I recall telling a minister once, when he criticized me about how vocal I was, that perhaps he should just pray for me and leave the rest to God.
It feels like we still get hung up talking about sex even today, which only benefits the spread of HIV, yet you were teaching people how to use a condom 25 years ago. Is our reticence about sex still the biggest obstacle?
I think we've certainly come a long way when it comes to talking about sex, and sexuality. As a parent now, I think the biggest obstacle is knowing when to have an open discussion with kids, because they are much more open minded about almost everything — race, gender issues, sexuality, differences. I think it's incredibly important to have age appropriate, honest conversations with children as early as possible. This helps them grow into tolerant, open minded adults, which is what the generation before ours, and our own as well, missed out on. I also think that adults need to be exposed to that same honest talk, through schools, clubs, churches… Talking about sex has never scared me, but the results of NOT talking about it absolutely scare the hell out of me.
You were part of the ceremonies when the entire AIDS Quilt appeared on the Ellipse in Washington, DC, in 1992. I still can't walk through a display of the quilt without losing it. What kind of impact did it have on you then?
Oh my goodness. That was one of the most powerful moments I've ever experienced. I traveled quite a bit with the Quilt and worked so closely with NAMES Project. Yes, the impact stays with me.
Did you make a panel?
I did make a panel for Guy when he passed. It still remains one of the most emotionally charged and difficult thing I've ever done. Labor of love doesn't even begin to describe it.
How do you feel about the arrival of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the pill that prevents HIV infection? For me, it's the kind of thing we prayed for back in the day, but the uptake among those at risk of infection has been slow.
Wouldn't the landscape of the disease be so very different if that had been available "back in the day?" I know I would take it, and I would encourage anyone who's sexually active to do the same. I think any kind of shame in taking a preventative pill would pale in comparison to the possible ramifications for not taking it. That's not to say that there should be ANY shame in contracting and living with HIV/AIDS. Men and women who I respect, admire and love with all my heart are living with the disease, but would, I'm pretty certain choose not to if they could.
You're in Florida now, hosting a morning show called The Chat. How's life today, and does HIV advocacy still have a presence in it?
Life is so good. I'm on a leave from the show for now, so I can spend some time with my two boys and family in California, but I'll be back! The show is formatted like The View, with very opinionated, funny, smart women and it's really fun and informative, too. I stay involved with HIV/AIDS organizations. I don't have the national platform like I did in 1992-93 but whenever I'm asked to do anything, I say yes. I advocate as much as I can and will for as long as people remain uneducated and people living with HIV/AIDS are ignored or mistreated.
Many gay men like myself can take a kind of bittersweet pride in having stepped up at a time when it felt like the world had turned against us. And you were our ally when you didn't have to be. I hope you still take a lot of pride in that.
I really do. And thank you. It's one of the best decisions I ever made to step into the ring and fight with all of you, gay and straight alike. I'm so proud of what we have accomplished and continue to accomplish. It isn't lost on me that I was, as Miss America, invited into places that other activists weren't. Churches, schools, Rotary Clubs, private organizations, the White House. I am so very proud to have been able to use my title to make a difference and have the absolute time of my life doing it. The friendships that were born through advocacy are some of the most important and meaningful relationships I have. I worked with some real rock stars. I'm very grateful.
When was the last time you put your Miss America crown on? If you haven't done it in many years I am going to be really disappointed.
Honey, every time I vacuum that crown is on. Haha! No, actually I put it on while doing The Chat last year. It's here in California with me now, and since you mentioned it I may just have to put it on today just for fun.
Oh yes, please. You know I love you for that.
Ironically, my producer on the show put it on and broke it! It was so funny. She was mortified. So, a little super glue and it's all good.
Lucky for us, your spirit is unbreakable. Thank you Leanza, for so many things.
And thank you. Your spirit and passion is contagious and inspiring. I mean that.
I inspire Miss America! I'm telling everyone. Take care, and think of me when you vacuum.
You take care as well, and thank you!
(Crowning photo from Miss America 1993 DVD; Portrait photo courtesy Miss America pageant; Photo of Daniel P. Warner and Leanza Cornett by Karen Ocamb; present-day photo by Renee Parenteau Photography)
Tags: aids, culture, drag, gay, help others, hiv, PrEP, recovery, Recreation, Sexuality
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VIDEO: The 2015 United States Conference on AIDS
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
Not to get all southern gothic on you, but I depend upon the kindness of strangers. Especially when producing video blogs at conferences.
"Excuse me, would you please just hold this camera and point it at me while I talk to these people?" I must have said that sentence at least 40 times during the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), held recently in Washington, DC. Every single interview you see in my video blog below was shot by whomever was wandering by at the time. Thanks, y'all!
The video contains three AIDS czars, one stripper pole, a ferocious batch of trans protestors, and more inspirational front-line workers than you can shake a stick at. My congratulations to the National Minority AIDS Council for their famously creative production of the weekend.
The spirit shared by the advocates, healthcare providers, and organizations who convened for USCA was electrifying, and just the boost many of us need to keep our energy up and our dedication renewed.
Oh, and special thanks to the CDC's Act Against AIDS campaign for letting me take over their Instagram page during the conference (follow them here), and to Gilead Sciences for sponsoring the "Mind the Gap" session on social media and inviting me to host it.
I love what I do. I love the work you're doing, too. As always, you are welcome to re-post my content, share it, take the YouTube video above and post it within your page, whatever might help share the messages of this amazing event and the awesome people who attended.
Thanks, my friends, and please be well.
(The photo above was the selfie the Social to Mobile speakers took at the end of our session, and includes – left to right – YouTube star Davey Wavey, blogger Guy Anthony, Michelle Samplin-Salgado of AIDS.gov, Luvvie Ajayi of the Red Pump Project, Miguel Gomez of AIDS.gov, myself, and Michael Crawford from Freedom to Marry.)
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'Small Town Rage' Documents ACT UP in the Deep South
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
When Alana Oldham was only 17 years old, she found out the meaning of activism. A close friend had received an AIDS diagnosis and he wasn't expected to live very long. Alana wanted to take action — to make a difference and vent her grief and frustration — but there were two major obstacles in her way.
It was 1989, and she lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.
"I had to do what I could to help my friend," says Alana. "What was happening was cruel. People were discriminated against everywhere. Another friend of mine was fired from his job for having AIDS."
And so, Alana Oldham did something in Shreveport that many people assume was only possible in much larger cities. She accepted an invitation from founding member Debbie Allen to attend an ACT UP meeting, one of the first to be held by the fledgling Shreveport group. And very soon thereafter, Alana took to the streets of her southern home town as part of angry protests. (Alana in 1990, above center.)
Robert Darrow, a founding member of ACT UP Shreveport, was right by her side. After years away from home, living in New York City and dealing with his own AIDS diagnosis, Robert had returned to Shreveport to die near his family. Instead, his health stabilized as he took part in a small town revolution.
"We were an angry bunch of young people," Robert said. "We were angry at local doctors for turning us away. We were angry at judgmental families. Even at the only local clinic that would treat us, they installed an exhaust fan to get rid of the air we breathed."
The group of activists were stunningly effective, showing up regularly on the front page of The Shreveport Times and on local television, and leading to the formation of an HIV clinic and a community-based AIDS service agency, The Philadelphia Center.
ACT UP New York activist Peter Staley (profiled in the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague) recalls taking notice. "I remember the thrill we got in New York when we heard about the launch of ACT UP Shreveport," he said. "We had breached the Deep South!"
But not everyone in Shreveport was a fan.
"Even people in the gay community wanted us to go away," said Robert. "They thought we were appalling." Robert believes it was more difficult for ACT UP Shreveport to speak out than activists elsewhere, citing the hugely conservative majority in Louisiana. The disapproval of in-your-face activism also mirrored the self-hatred felt by so many gay men living in the Bible Belt.
David Hylan was one of those men. Married and closeted at the time, David watched ACT UP from the sidelines. "They were scary," he said. "The radical nature of it was off-putting, especially since the south found all gay people immoral. And now there was this deadly disease."
David realizes now that his discomfort had as much to do with his own masked sexuality as it did with the angry street activists he saw on the local news.
So it feels satisfyingly, poetic even, that David is now co-producer of Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South, a documentary in the works about the history of ACT UP Shreveport. The film features interviews with many of the surviving activists and with family members of those who were lost to the epidemic.
A new Kickstarter campaign has already raised one-third of the project's $15,000 budget. Dozens of hours of interviews have been filmed, and funds raised will cover remaining production costs and efforts to feature Small Town Rage at film festivals. Tom Viola, the influential head of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, has issued a personal appeal in support of the project on his Facebook page.
"This whole journey has been a learning experience," said David Hylan. "I've come to appreciate the people who were just fighting for their dignity." His personal evolution led to a second marriage earlier this year, when David married his boyfriend.
The Philadelphia Center in Shreveport, forged by the efforts of ACT UP, remains the only HIV service provider in northern Louisiana.
Robert Darrow, the ACT UP member who had gone home to die and helped form ACT UP instead, served as The Philadelphia Center's first executive director. Robert says that of all ACT UP Shreveport's accomplishments, he is most proud that the agency serves thousands of clients. And there's something else that gives him pride.
"I'm proud we did not remain silent," he says.
(Visit the Small Town Rage site and consider even a modest token of support. I pledged $25 but any amount is welcome. Stay up to date on the film's progress through their Facebook page or Twitter feed.)
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Five Activists Give the Ten Worst Offenses of AHF's Michael Weinstein
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
(I was proud to join four fellow activists contributing to this story, which originally appeared on the site HIV Equal. If you have ever wondered what all the fuss is about — or think the conflicts activists have with AIDS Healthcare Foundation are just industry "inside baseball" — here are ten reasons to believe otherwise.)
You would think that the largest global HIV and AIDS service organization with the biggest budget a non-profit could ask for would be interested in removing the stigma of HIV and working in unison with people living with the virus. But even a passing glance at AIDS Healthcare Foundation's (AHF) record of offenses against the community it claims to serve says otherwise.
It is unfair to color the efforts of the people of AHF as categorically corrupt. The massive organization is staffed with thousands of wonderful, passionate, and well-meaning people who are unfairly criticized and whose work is slighted. There are fantastic doctors and wonderful programs that do a great deal of good under the AHF brand, but this does little to remove the stains created by the poor leadership and direction of one man: Michael Weinstein.
In the past 15 years, Weinstein has racked up quite the record of wrongdoings against the collective effort to reduce HIV transmission and stigma. Well known HIV activists Peter Staley, Mark S. King, Eric Paul Leue, Mathew Rodriguez, and Tyler Curry assembled a list of the top 10 worst offenses of AHF by way of Weinstein.
1. Anti-Union Practices
In 2013, when AHF medical doctors were overworked in understaffed clinics, they felt that the quality of patient care was being ignored and wanted to unionize under the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Medical staff told the Los Angeles Times that decisions were driven by concerns for profit, not patient care, but AHF said that they considered doctors "management," and Weinstein said any efforts to unionize that included doctors were "tainted.
If AHF or Weinstein did deny its doctors the right to unionize, AHF squarely falls not only against its own medical staff, but implies that it does not want its clients to have the highest standard of care – deliberately shunting the health of HIV-positive people onto the backburner. — Mathew Rodriguez, HIV activist and community editor of TheBody.com
2. Paid Editorials Campaigning Against PrEP
I guess its good to be king, because no matter how skewed your opinion may be, your dollar will always get your words published. On June 16, 2015, Weinstein paid to distribute his most recent editorial ad campaign, "The War on Prevention." Although AHF's stance has changed significantly since the days where the organization called the pill a "party drug," Weinstein still trumpets the use of condoms over PrEP as the only effective large-scale measure of preventing HIV transmission.
"AIDS Healthcare Foundation is not against PrEP," Weinstein writes. "Truvada can absolutely be the right decision for specific patients who, in consultation with their doctors, decide this is the best choice. However, the entire body of scientific data demonstrates that Truvada will not be successful as a mass public health intervention. Yet, this is exactly what PrEP advocates, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recommend."
To clarify, the CDC is not in the business of PrEP advocacy, but rather scientific research. There are no specific scientific claims that Weinstien tries to disprove in the "advertorial." But he does give plenty of unsubstantiated statements himself, such as, "Mass PrEP administration is a dangerous experiment that is not supported by medical science and is currently resisted by doctors and patients alike."
Sounds scary, huh? It is also bullshit. Yet, this advertisement ran in LGBT newspapers and magazines in eight markets nationwide (Chicago, South Florida, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington D.C., Seattle, Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles). — Tyler Curry, HIV activist and senior editor of HIV Equal Online
3. Anti-Science AIDS Activism
AIDS treatment activism has a beautiful legacy, built by groups like Project Inform, ACT UP New York, Treatment Action Group (TAG), and South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Collectively, we've helped change the course of AIDS, and saved millions of lives. One of our central tenants is that science should drive our advocacy. Science has been our compass, and our source of credibility and power to do the most good for the most people. Science has kept us from letting the personal dogma of any single activist steer the movement in a harmful direction.
Michael Weinstein has been spitting on this legacy for almost 15 years, long before he launched his PrEP denialism campaign. He has been spitting on the graves of lost heroes, like Martin Delaney, Project Inform's founder, who warned me years ago that Weinstein was "dangerous" and "self-serving." He has been spitting on the graves of Spencer Cox, and Carlton Hogan, who were instrumental in pushing us towards a science-driven path. Some of us should be forgiven for feeling protective of the legacy of AIDS activism built by these fallen comrades, and for our anger at those who arrogantly rebuke it. — Peter Staley, HIV activist and founder of Treatment Action Group (TAG)
4. Stigma-Fueled, Anti-PrEP Messaging
In April 2014, Weinstein called Truvada for PrEP a "party drug," that would give gay and bisexual men a license to have unprotected sex, which would lead to a "public health disaster." Weinstein's "party drug" comment is disrespectful to anyone who has ever had sex — or plans to. Firstly, calling any HIV medication a "party drug" is disrespectful to HIV-positive people who take the drug in order to suppress the virus and live fully realized lives.
The sex-negative comment, borne of internalized homophobia, shames people of all sexualities who derive meaning from sexual activities — whether natural or with a condom — and is an ultra-conservative attack on (generally gay) people's identities as sexual beings. His comment is also completely gender-blind and ignores women, straight and queer, who enjoy condomless sex on PrEP or use PrEP in order to have a child — you know, a real party. — Mathew Rodriguez, community editor of TheBody.com
5. Overbilling of Federal Funds in Los Angeles County
A California Judge ruled in April 2015 that, "AIDS Healthcare Foundation must face claims by Los Angeles County officials that it overbilled the county $5.2 million for patient treatment." It is alleged that, similar to the overbilling claims in Florida, AHF has been defrauding federal-funding sources for people affected by HIV in L.A. County for about eight years. In addition to the $5.2 million, which was discovered in audits, the county has had to spend over $1.8 million to defend itself against lawsuits involving AHF. Considering the scarcity of public health funds, a loss of $7 million is a serious threat to much needed services for people affected by HIV in the county.
Ensuing the overbilling charges against AHF in L.A. County, now retired Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said of Weinstein: "He's used his nonprofit organization in a crass and bullying political way to get his way, which is to avoid being held accountable."
Afterwards, an internal email authored by Weinstein was discovered that read, "We need to go after Zev [Yaroslavsky] directly and hard. He is the real power behind our problems with the county on porn, the audit and fee-for service. Plus, he is a lame duck and an arrogant jerk. His Berman-Waxman power base is dead and he and others need to be taught a lesson." — Eric Paul Leue, HIV activist and director of sexual health and education at Kink.com
6. Fear-Based Safe-Sex Campaigns That Further HIV Stigma
A recent series of AHF advertisements depicted two people or various races and gender in bed, presumably post-coitus, with the caption "Trust him?"
This stigmatic view of sex and trust is both reductive in personal responsibility and stigmatizing towards HIV-positive people. It suggests that people living with the disease are akin to criminals who lie in order to have sex, or even intentionally spread the virus. Sure, the people behind the AHF campaign may argue differently. However, it is hard to ignore the criminal theme of the advertisements that, by default, further marginalize people living with HIV and keeps fear in the forefront of safer sex messaging. As one Facebook user stated, "This does not say 'fear HIV.' It says, 'fear people living with HIV.'" — Tyler Curry, HIV activist and senior editor of HIV Equal Online
7. Intimidating Other Organizations, People, and Practices Who Get In Their Way
The famously litigious agency has sued (or threatened to sue) many individuals and organizations in their path over the years, including counties, cities, departments of health, and even smaller agencies with whom AHF had territorial disputes. AHF even withdrew funding from a Louisiana advocacy event when they learned a plaintiff in their whistleblower lawsuit was involved in its planning. After this was revealed, they reinstated the funding without apology — and promptly counter-sued the whistleblowers. AHF's latest strategy is to simply gobble up the competition, as in the recent announcement they have acquired the largest community-based agency in the south, AID Atlanta. — Mark S. King, HIV activist and writer at MyFabulousDisease.com
8. Financial Leveraging Against Smaller Organizations
In a 2014 lawsuit against L.A. County, AHF's attorney, Samantha Azulay, argued for the invalidation of county funding contracts with smaller HIV and AIDS organizations with the words: "…You know, there might be some impact on these contracts, but maybe you've got to cut up a couple trees to save the forest."
Reach LA, a youth organization with specific focus on HIV-affected African-American, Latino, and transgender youth, was among the "couple of trees" and it lost $100,000 funding.
In a 2013 dispute, AHF refused to pay rent for a space it had occupied since 2003 from Maitri, an AIDS hospice in San Francisco. The dispute arose when AHF refused to pay fair market rent for the property after opting for the renewal of the rent contract. Maitri has an operating budget of about $2 million, while Weinstein claims that AHF has a budget of $1 billion. The rent refusal caused Maitri an approximate loss of more than $300,000. AHF only had to pay $60,000. — Eric Paul Leue, HIV activist and director of sexual health and education at Kink.com
9. Forcing Condoms in Porn
In the last two years, AHF has led a costly media campaign to push forward legislation that would enforce condom use in adult film productions. But what may sounded like a good idea can actually be a dangerous limitation of access to other and possibly more adequate prevention options — and it threatens performers with serious infringements on medical and personal privacy. For the past five years, many public health officials have repeatedly argued that this was a waste of money, as the adult film industry, with zero on-set HIV infections over the past ten years, is not where the epidemic demands our attention.
In a recent hearing in front of the California Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board, 19 organizations, numerous performers, and unaffiliated medical professionals all opposed AHFs proposal, which Weinstein is now trying to push through in form of a state-ballot initiative. Many are appalled by AHFs proposal to ignore highly efficacious and proven prevention options such as PrEP and specific industry-developed testing protocols, all-the-while removing performer's rights for personal choice to access and control. — Eric Paul Leue, HIV activist and director of sexual health and education at Kink.com
10. An Alleged Pattern of Criminal Conspiracy
A stunning whistle-blower lawsuit made public this year against AHF charges the agency with ten counts of defrauding the government, conspiracy, and a "multi-State kickback scheme" to maintain service quotas and keep the government-funded gravy train rolling. The suit, brought by three former senior staff members of the agency, includes internal documents that outline payments to both staff members and clients in an attempt to direct people who test positive into care at an AHF clinic — without properly offering them choices to seek care elsewhere. This strategy, known as "captive care," then allegedly allows AHF to bill freely for client services obtained illegally, according to the lawsuit. — Mark S. King, HIV activist and writer at MyFabulousDisease.com
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The Visual AIDS Web Gallery "Proud to be Positive"
Monday, June 1st, 2015
June is Pride Month in the LGBT community, and I was honored to be asked by Visual AIDS to curate a "web gallery" on the topic. Immediately, I considered a question that I had once posed to readers of my blog.
If living with HIV is nothing to be ashamed of, is it something to be proud of?
It was a really interesting exercise to explore this question, and I hope you will head over to Visual AIDS to check out the exhibit online. Visual AIDS has thousands of images of artwork that represent the artistic expression of hundreds of artists living with HIV.
Of course, including these artists in my exhibit meant that I was assigning meaning to their work in a way they may never have intended. That's okay. Art is gloriously subjective. In the image Self-Enforced Disclosure (Greg Mitchell, 2007) above, I could help but believe that a man who would tattoo his HIV status on his body did not do it to shame himself. But is it an act of pride?
From my curator statement:
No one should be marked or shamed for living with HIV. But, should someone claim to be proud of being positive, there is a lingering, implicit threat to the statement, as if their pride is untrustworthy, or worse, that having the audacity to feel proud of living with the virus must mean they want to infect everyone else.
We must reject the stigma that labels people with HIV as predatory, irresponsible, and lacking in self-respect. Being proud of all that we are is hardly the same as wishing it on others.
I hope you will check this out and share your thoughts.
p.s. My writing is my artistic expression, and I really appreciate the response I have received to my essay in the new June issue of POZ Magazine, "Surviving Life Itself." The piece reflects on my relevance, and lack thereof, as a 30-year survivor of HIV, and what kind of impact others like myself can have in the here and now. I hope you will grab a copy at your local clinic or pharmacy, or read it online here.
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Aglukkaq in Geneva fighting EU ban of seal products
Sonja Puzic , CTVNews.ca
Published Monday, March 17, 2014 10:01AM EDT
Last Updated Monday, March 17, 2014 3:54PM EDT
Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is defending Canada's sealing industry at a World Trade Organization hearing in Geneva, saying the seal hunt is "humane, sustainable and well-regulated."
In a statement delivered to the trade organization's appellate body on Monday, Aglukkaq called the European Union's ban on imported seal products "unfair," and based on "myths."
The WTO ruled last November that the EU ban on imported seal products undermines international trade obligations, but is justified due to "public moral concerns" for animal welfare.
But Aglukkaq said "the assertion that what we have been doing for thousands of years is so morally wrong as to justify a trade prohibition is very troubling.
"Any law or regulation that purports to be based on the public morality defence should be subject to close judicial scrutiny," she said in the statement Monday.
Canada and Norway are challenging the 2010 EU ban on the import and sale of seal fur, meat, blubber and other products. Canada, Norway, Greenland and Namibia all have commercial seal hunts.
Animal rights advocates have applauded the ban, but the Canadian government and supporters of the seal hunt have said the embargo contravenes trade regulations and discriminates against Inuit hunters.
Aglukkaq told the WTO hearing that while Canadian seal products are banned, the EU still allows seal products from Greenland to be marketed in Europe "without any regard for the manner in which they are hunted.
"In other words, the EU Seal Regime does nothing to actually keep seal products out of the EU market or away from the EU public," she said. "It simply replaces seal products that used to come from Canada and Norway with seal products that come from places like Greenland and the European Union."
Aglukkaq said sealing has played an "integral role" in the economic development of Canadian communities on the northern and eastern coasts and must be preserved.
"Not only does it provide a livelihood for our families, but the seal hunt enables our communities to maintain their traditions and way of life," she said.
Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian Wildlife at Humane Society of the United States, told The Canadian Press that WTO based its ruling on veterinary science that suggests seals are killed inhumanely.
"There are equally compelling arguments that Europeans find this morally objectionable and don't want those products on their market," Aldworth said.
Aglukkaq, who represents Nunavut and is also the minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, told the WTO that sealing is part of her own "culture and heritage."
The WTO hearing is expected to last three days.
According to the European Commission, about 900,000 seals are hunted around the world each year.
If the WTO rejects the appeal, the Canadian sealing industry and Inuit groups will follow up with an ongoing legal appeal through the European Court of Justice.
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Ignorance isn't bliss for some people.Cant we just stop fighting each other...the three different races is a segregation which when mixed altoghether makes a complete form of a human....a black man may have something that a white man or asian doesnt have and vice versal and we need one another to filll those holes.....who knows, maybe someday it wouldnt a fight between the human races,it may be a fight between aliens and humans lmao!
BLACK PEOPLE are taking over Europe
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#1743 May 24, 2013
Brisbane, Australia
#1745 Oct 16, 2013
Thats ok, Chinese people are taking over Africa at an alarming rate. They pretty much own everything in Africa.
Blacks are usually the ones to be taken over because god forbid, they cant rule themselves. Just look at Africa, or better yet, Detroit. Way to go, Afros.
They've built no glorious civilizations like the Romans, Greeks, Sumerians etc, they've lived like caveman for the past...forever. They've created no fantastic inventions like the Phone, Internet, Wheel. Nothing.
Most of the worlds disease, poverty and crimes against humanity happen in Africa. Most of their politicians are corrupt, they steal the money of their own people and then blame the same people that gave them the money: Whites.
I hope White people take over Zimbabwe and South Africa. Atleast they were productive countries before...you guessed right, black people took over.
Since: Oct 09
Paris France
#1746 Oct 16, 2013
The usual whitey redneck prejudice and misconceptions.
Who can be proud of WWI and WWII, of Hitler and Staline and king Leopold II ?
Who can be proud of Asians like Mao Ze Dong and the Corean Kims ?
Who can be proud of militarist Japan from 1905 to 1945 ?
We are far from Africa there.
a whiteboi
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1747 Oct 17, 2013
That's what it is. Only paranoid delusional white folks are worried about Blacks taking over Europe. No such thing is happening, and I'd bet you could count on one hand the number of Blacks--immigrant or European born--who even have such thoughts of taking over on their minds.
Paranoid delusional white buffoonery.
Since: Oct 09
Paris France
#1748 Oct 17, 2013
Besides Sir, if it was true, it would be no big deal.
Where was Mrs Le Pen and the others during the colonial era ? Her family was supporting us white Europeans invading Africa and Asia.
The paranoia is so intense that the Breivik semi-fascist party is now within the government in Norway : a cold, snowy country where the part of foreigners even from other European countries is very small ...
That being said, the far-right buffoons know well our European birthrates are plummeting except in France. African birthrates are still high and in 2050, the population will reach 1.8 billions when Germany is an old age pensioners'home ...
There is no doubt that the African immigration will continue and increase, especially when in 10 years the need for young workers is extremely high in the Old Continent.
On the other hand, the growth of Africa will generate jobs and makes her attractive economically.
So Eurafrica is not a bad idea for this century.
a whiteboi
Peterborough, UK
#1749 Oct 17, 2013
Ive been to Africa and I didn't misbehave. Loads of white people live happily in Africa and have had nothing to do with colonizing the place in the past. White people live and work in parts of Africa and are not disliked or discriminated against by the Africans.
Sometimes African run companies and Governments ask us to go over and work for them. Often we buy houses over there or trade and do business there. We are not all diamond smugglers and slavers etc...
Besides the fact that white people in africa give a hell of a lot of money to beggars and police men.
Peterborough, UK
#1750 Oct 17, 2013
I dont worry about blacks or muslims taking over my country. Not at all. Neither of the 2 could defeat the english in war. I would like to stop immigration, make it harder for people to be citizens and send all the illegals back.
My nation has a stupid policy on immigration. Its been many years since their home countries became indipendant. We should no longer let people come hear so easily.
Weather im morally wrong or not I dont want any more foreigners overpopulating my area. There are too many people, limited resources and services we cant afford to carry people who are unemployable and cant speak english. Plus the fact that many of these people are not wanted by their own countries and they hate my culture or come hear with little do do but breake the law.
"Repent and worship God"
Since: Jul 13
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#1751 Oct 17, 2013
Well more white people are moving to Africa each and every year.
London, UK
#1752 Nov 29, 2013
It will lead to a race war! Thats what the zionist bankers want. To destabilise Europe and bring in a totalitarian military state. In other words total control. That is why they are ruining european cultures with Immigration and debt. Its pure evil but there will be a backlash when they go too far as history shows.
The people will rise up and drive these demons out.
Cape Town, South Africa
#1753 Nov 30, 2013
Um...nope its Muslims taking over Europe! Its been said that by 2050 the UK will be a Muslim country!
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1754 Nov 30, 2013
No one spoke of Africans or others militarily invading Europe, os the issue war is irrelevant. Some whites, both in America and Europe, are paranoid about immigrants of color becoming too numerous. And this is precisely the shape that your paranoia takes. As for being unemplyable, the fact remains that black and other immigrants come to Europe mainly for better economic oppportunities--which usually means for WORK. Moreover, European governments themselves recruited people from Third World countries to help rebuild European ecnomies and nations devastated by wars Europeans inflicted on each other between 1938--1945. And these immigrants from Africa, Asia the Caribbean and other places were after WWII commonly used as cheap labor--doing the dirtiest, lowest paying work which European white workers were no longer wiling to do (which they increasingly saw as beneath them). Then, with the same myopia we find in America, many European began seeing the wave of immigrants that they unleashed themselves, as a threatening invasion.
Nonetheless, it was Europe which opted to exploit the immigrants. It was Europe which colonized, exploited, looted and impoverished the Third World. Europe is, as Frantz Fanon says, the "creation of the Third World." So, when you complain about the "problem" of black and brown immigrants, you're really whining about the consequences of the crimes committed by your own nations.
Until there is a sustained global offensive against global poverty, which will undoubtedly include reparations for the imperial pillage of Third World countries by the West, I doubt that we will soon see a just and meaningful resolution of immigration issues.
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1755 Nov 30, 2013
There's no "race war" provoked by "zionist" bankers. And the only totalitarian states in Europe that I know of was created either by the Soviet bloc in the east of Europe (wich was not especially frinedly to bankers, "zionist" or not), and Fascist dictatorships in the West--the Nazi regime waging against OTHER EUROPEANS the bloodiest race war in the history of Europe.
The only race wars I know of other than those waged by Europeans against other Europeans, are those wage by Europe in its long history of imperialist agression against indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Cape Town, South Africa
#1758 Nov 30, 2013
Oh but the Muslims will be taking over! According to statistics and huge Muslim immigration, by 2050 Britain will be a Muslim country! This probably applies to other European countries at well. Amsterdam will have a Muslim majority 2020! No more jingle bells at Xmas!!!
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1759 Dec 1, 2013
Since there has never been any such thing as "Africoons", there has never been any such thing as an "Africoon Civil War."
Moreover, your incoherent racist gibberish is a mer deflection, but also a buffoonish antic indicative of an inferior mind.
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1760 Dec 1, 2013
That doesn't seem likely. As far as I know, there are no European countries in which indigenous white Europeans are not still over 90% of the population. And they are overwhelmingly either Christian or secular. To change that demographic significantly, Muslim immigrants--and remember not all immigrants are Muslim--would have to immigrate in the TENS OF MILLIONS, and in a very short period of time. I doubt that will happen.
Chesterfield, UK
#1761 Dec 1, 2013
hell yeh. we takin over.
"Yes WE Can! Yes we Will!"
Since: Jul 07
Baltimore, Md.
#1762 Dec 1, 2013
While I loved seeing so many Black brothers and sisters Europe, especially in France, we are not taking over.
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Location hidden
#1763 Dec 16, 2013
There are cities in Europe in which the indigenous Europeans are less than 50%. There is a genocide in Britain of the indigenous population. It seems the elite there hate the indigenous population, perhaps because they no longer have a world empire to command; I don't know. Tony Blair (whose head belongs atop a pike on London Bridge) fought to have the indigenous population of Britain declared by the EU as non-indigenous. This was done to allow a bunch of immigrants. He's a traitor and an elite facilitator of genocide. There are others. Gordon Brown in also complicit.
Just look at the history of what went on. Look at the trajectory of things. Look at the changing demographics, why they are happening and who benefits from them. And think about what really constitutes treason. Should Tony Blair be considered a traitor because he fought for a resolution that considered the native Brits as non-indigenous, therefore exempting them from legal protections that would help protect their population in their own country? One whose vast majority of populace have been shown to have been descended from the same population who inhabited the place for 10,000 years?
#1764 Dec 16, 2013
"Repent and worship God"
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#1765 Dec 17, 2013
Majority of Europe is white. Are you not aware of that?
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