The passion heats up and the clothes come of. This is it. It’s time. Then he says, "oh, my condoms are in my pants, hang on a sec." You lay there waiting while he checks one pocket, then the other and the moments seem more like minutes and finally he has it and is fumbling to open it. Has this ever happened to you? Then there are the times when you have to stop to dig into a drawer on the night stand and get everything out. What if they had underwear with a secret pocket that would hold your

‘Vauxhall by daylight! A porter-pot without porter! The House of Commons without the Speaker, a gas-lamp without the gas—poo, nonsense, the thing was not to be thought of’ Charles Dickens, Vauxhall Gardens by Day Vauxhall is nestled near the Thames in South London. The area is nothing special to look at, consisting of a transport hub, sprawling roads, disused railway arches, businesses and warehouses. At night, however, Vauxhall becomes an entirely different place. In the above quote, Di

Following the release of H-I-Vogue, I got a chance to have a quick chat with Jade Elektra, aka DJ Relentless about his latest track with a message.  You are a New Yorker transplant in Toronto, how did you find yourself here?  I actually moved to Toronto because I fell in love and married one of the local filmmakers, John Richard Allen. I had been in New York for the past 17 years and I felt I needed a change. For those who don’t know you, you are a man of many talents: DJ, singer/p

Bob: Tell me about your job. Kevin: I’m the Gay Men’s HIV Prevention Worker at the Regional HIV AIDS Connection in London Ontario. My job includes the development of community awareness campaigns, educational and training resources, program and curriculum development for many different target populations, all of which include gay, bi and MSM (Men who have Sex with Men). I also do lot of pounding the pavement, handing out condoms and connecting with people. I do outreach at our local bathho

It’s been swirling around inside my head for a few days now, that video, so intriguing are the isssues raised. I’m talking about what Mark S, King and Sean Strub said in last week’s post : Five Things about HIV (They’re Not Telling You).  Here’s an excerpt from their conversation: MSK Fact number one: an undetectable viral load may rival a condom SS A person who is undetectable and has been undetectable for some time, there is very little chance of them transmitting the vir

 . . who will be featured regularly on PositiveLite. We will be showcasing some of his newer posts, like today’s, and also some gems – and there are a lot of them - from his back catalogue. Read Mark’s bio here. If you like what you see here, and we have a feeling you will, please head right on over to My Fabulous Disease and enter a world quite like no other. Believe me, you’re in for a treat. Mark is often funny and irreverent, a trait he shares with PositiveLite.com, but he als

This HIV prevention video shown below seems to be getting good reviews, particularly when compared to the NYC Public Health Authority’s scare-tactics video which nobody seems to like, that came out about the same time. This one's extremely clever, extremely well done too. I think it’s a winner. If you're puzzled by the imagery contained in it, though, as I initially was, here’s what the producers, All Out Attack Films have to say about it. "Little Taiko Boy combines Western holiday

Boy, this is a murky topic, but I’ll do my best to wade through the last four years of facts, fiction, opinion and debate on the impact of circumcision on HIV transmission between men who have sex with men (MSM). Let’s start in 2006. That’s when large scale research studies conducted in Africa were telling us that circumcision is indeed effective in substantially reducing HIV infection rates. BUT the study referred only to heterosexual boinking. Bill Clinton jumps in to the fray at the I

Several gay groups in New York are calling for the pulling of this public service announcement. Given that the infection rate keeps rising in the gay population, the makers of this PSA felt they needed to bring out the realities of living with HIV, which are not all pretty. It really is a fine line with these kinds of social marketing campaigns. What is a social marketing campaign? I get asked this quite a bit. It seems like those in the know assume that everyone knows this terminology. These

First, skip to the bottom of this post to view the video, and then read this. Have to admit I think this video is pretty clever, pretty brilliant on a couple of levels. For one, the animation used is something that’s new and refreshing – and what HIV prevention messaging needs now more than ever is something that’s new and refreshing. (I’ll comment on the vid’s technical aspects later). Secondly the message contained in the video is pretty well spot on; it plays out, in fact, many of