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Tell Me I’m Okay (2018) is a memoir by Dr. David Bradford, a gay man who worked as the ‘chief venereologist’ of Victoria (Venereal disease is an old term for sexually transmitted infections) when the AIDS epidemic began in the 1980’s. Bradford worked as a doctor throughout the epidemic and continued to work as a […]
Tags: a doctor's story, AIDS, anthony k j smith, david bradford, HIV, tell me i'm okay
12 Jul 2018 /
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I started my work as a Peer Educator in February 2015 at M Clinic, Perth’s sexual health clinic for men who have sex with men. It is just over 3 years on, and I have three months left of work before I move to Sydney to start my Ph.D., where I will research in this […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, bi men, Gay Men, men who have sex with men, MSM, sexual health
11 Apr 2018 |
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Thank you to Chris Williams from PrEP’d for Change for keeping and providing a price watch, and for allowing me to use his data for this article. ADC = All Day Chemist P/GCP = PAN & Green Cross Pharmacy (Partnership) DI = Dynamix International GCP = Green Cross Pharmacy FH = Freedom Health The announcement […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, HIV, PrEP, sexual health
11 Mar 2018 |
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Between 1905 until the section was repealed in 1955, The Aborigines Act 1905 (WA), (entirely repealed in 1964), specified that our First Nation Peoples in WA could not marry a non-Aboriginal person without permission from the so-called ‘Chief Protector’ (Between 1905 and 1936, this only applied to Aboriginal women marrying non-Aboriginal people, after 1936 it […]
Tags: Aboriginal, anthony k j smith, indigenous, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, religious freedom, safe schools
3 Nov 2017 |
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A unique aspect of the gay community (incl. cis and trans gay, bi, and other guys who do ‘stuff’ with guys) is our organising of identity around sexual positionality. The most frequent message you will get on Grindr or an equivalent app is “u top or btm?”, either first up (even if it’s on your […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, bottom, dating, Grindr, sex, Sexuality, top, vers, versatile
27 Oct 2017 |
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The goal of this article is to plainly and openly speak about psychoactive substances (drugs) and considerations to make if you’re using, planning to use, or open to using. We talk about sex a lot in the queer community but we don’t necessarily talk about substance use with the same openness. This article cannot cover […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, Drugs, harm reduction, Health
25 Sep 2017 |
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The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA: Anti-AIDS Activism in Los Angeles From the 1980s to the 2000s Benita Roth Cambridge University Press ★★★★ The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) formed in New York in 1987 as a coalition of direct-action activism in order to put pressure on the U.S. Government, the Food […]
Tags: ACT UP, activism, AIDS, anthony k j smith, benita roth, Bibliophile, book, HIV, Literature, the life and death of ACT UP/LA
18 Sep 2017 |
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), is a pill taken every day by guys who are HIV negative in order to prevent them from acquiring HIV. The only medication currently used as ‘PrEP’ is Truvada (along with generic versions such as Ricover EM, Adco-Emtivir, and Tenvir EM). Truvada as PrEP is approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, condom, PAN, PrEP, sexual health, Sexuality, STI, Truvada
29 Aug 2017 |
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Adding black and brown to the Philadelphia pride flag in order to highlight the disproportionate violence occurring to LGBTIQ+ people of colour in Philadelphia is all it took to evoke white fragility in queer white people across the globe. Unfortunately pointing out the suffering of people of colour always evokes a bunch of knee-jerk reactions. […]
Tags: anthony k j smith, Homophobia, queer, race, racial preference, racism, Transphobia
21 Jul 2017 |
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34 years ago the first safe sex booklet, “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach”, was produced and 5000 copies of the forty-page booklet disseminated through New York City in response to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. The authors, Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, were both living with AIDS (they were also […]
Tags: AIDS, anthony k j smith, history, HIV, how to have sex in an epidemic, safe sex, sexual health
18 May 2017 |
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