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Holy Finale

A review of the summer’s most anticipated fi lm, ‘Dark Knight Rises.’

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Building a Platform

Will DNC follow Obama’s lead and endorse marriage in party platform?

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Gray names Levin interim director, as Akhter takes leave

By LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

In a surprise development, Mayor Vincent Gray on Tuesday announced he had appointed Dr. Saul Levin, a psychiatrist and senior deputy director at the D.C. Department of Health, as interim director of the DOH, making him the fi rst known out gay person to serve as head of a city department of that size.

Gray said Levin would fi ll in for DOH Director Dr. Mohammad Akhter, who the mayor said is taking an unpaid leave of absence to become a member of the executive board of the city’s newly created Health Benefi t Exchange Authority.

The Exchange Authority, created earlier this year by legislation passed by the City Council, is one of similar entities expected to be created by all 50 states under the federal Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health insurance reform measure.

“The appointment of Dr. Akhter to the Health Benefi t Exchange Authority was a strategic decision by my administration,”

Gray said in a statement released Tuesday. “Implementing the Affordable Care Act is one of my top priorities, and I am confi dent Dr. Akhter can lead the way in that effort.”

Levin could not be immediately reached for comment. The statement released by the mayor’s offi ce announcing his appointment as interim director of the DOH makes no mention of his sexual orientation.

However, gay D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) told the Blade he has known Levin for more than 20 years and that Levin has been involved in LGBT-related AIDS work in various positions, including a stint as an offi cial at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which is an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“At SAMHSA, Dr. Levin led the initiative to integrate primary care, substance abuse, mental health and HIV/AIDS response,” the statement from the mayor’s offi ce said.

Graham said Levin also did volunteer work for the then Whitman-Walker Clinic at the time Graham served as the Clinic’s executive director in the 1980s and 1990s.

A native of South Africa, Levin received his medical degree in 1992 from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, according to the

statement from the mayor’s offi ce. It says he completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of California’s Davis Medical Center. He received a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1994, the statement says.

Prior to beginning his tenure at the D.C. DOH earlier this year, Levin served as Vice President for Science, Medicine, and Public Health at the American Medical Association, the mayor’s statement says.

“He’s extremely intelligent and he knows a lot about health policy,” Graham said. “My fi rst reaction when I heard he was named to this position was I hate to see him leave APRA [the DOH’s Addiction, Prevention and Recovery Administration] because his expertise is in that area,” said Graham. “But Saul Levin has superb qualities to be the interim director of Health.”

LGBT and AIDS activists have praised Akhter for his record of support for HIV/AIDS-related services in the gay and transgender communities, which are among the groups hardest hit by HIV in the city.

Akhter, with Gray’s approval, appointed Dr. Gregory Pappas last year as head of the DOH’s HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease, and Tuberculosis Administration. Pappas is also gay.

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Mayor VINCENT GRAY on Tuesday announced he had appointed Dr. Saul Levin as interim director of the DOH, the fi rst known out gay person to serve as head of a city department of that size.

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Gay doctor to lead D.C. Dept. of Health

Prominent locals raise money for Maine effort

By MICHAEL K. [email protected]

Will D.C. gays support efforts to defend neighboring Maryland’s same-sex marriage law?

Some observers are asking just that after Freedom to Marry hosted a fundraiser in the nation’s capital for the group seeking to secure marriage rights for same-sex couples in Maine. Baltimore native Ken Mehlman, who is the gay former chair of the Republican National Committee, Winnie Stachelberg of the Center for American Progress, Ken Crerar and Joel Kopperud of the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers and Kirk Fordham of the Gill Action Fund are among those who were on the host committee for the Mainers United for Marriage fundraiser at Robert Raben’s Northeast Washington home on July 11.

Matt McTighe, campaign director for Mainers United for Marriage, told the Blade that he personally asked former colleagues and friends in D.C. to join the fundraiser’s host committee. He said it raised slightly more than $20,000 as of deadline.

“We’re doing fundraisers all over the country,” said McTighe, who noted Mainers United for Marriage has held events in 15 states. “We’re going to continue to do more wherever we can do them.”

Stachelberg, who hired McTighe when she was at the Human Rights Campaign, stressed that CAP has worked extensively to defend Maryland’s same-sex marriage law. These efforts include what she described as conversations with LGBT lawmakers in Annapolis and strengthening support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians among religious Marylanders. Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler predicted during a CAP forum last fall that state lawmakers would pass a same-sex marriage bill this year — Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the measure into law in March.

“We at CAP have done a lot in terms of content and work probably more in Maryland than other state initiatives,” said Stachelberg. “I certainly helped with strategic in kind help over the last year and a half as have a number of other people at CAP. The Maryland effort hasn’t asked me and I’m sure when they do I’ll fi gure out how to help.”

Crerar and his partner Peter Garrett, who attended Bowdoin College, have

owned a house in Maine since 1992. The couple hosted a fundraiser at their D.C. home in support of the campaign that ultimately failed to defend the Pine Tree State’s same-sex marriage law during a 2009 referendum. Crerar told the Blade that he and Garrett decided to co-host the July 11 fundraiser after Mainers United for Marriage asked them.

“From spending time up there, we know that the atmosphere is very different, and positive so we are glad to help,” said Crerar. “Regarding Maryland, the simple answer is that no one has asked.”

Gay Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf said that McTighe also asked him to join the fundraiser’s host committee. He, like Crerar, said that Marylanders for Marriage Equality has yet to approach him to help the campaign raise money. Elmendorf stressed, however, that he plans to attend an upcoming Marylanders for Marriage Equality fundraiser in Bethesda.

“As long as there is a winning campaign — and I think Maryland has a winning campaign as does Maine, we’re going to help,” he said.

Marylanders for Marriage Equality has faced increased scrutiny in recent weeks from those who feel the campaign has not raised enough money to effectively

defend the state’s same-sex marriage law.Josh Levin, campaign director of

Marylanders for Marriage Equality, told the Blade during a June 13 fundraiser in Baltimore that he remains confi dent that he can run what he described as a “winning campaign” with between $5 and $7 million.

Will D.C. gays help in Md. marriage fi ght?

JOSH LEVIN, campaign director of Marylanders for Marriage Equality, said he can run a ‘winning campaign’ with between $5 and $7 million.

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Va. anti-gay adoption law takes effect

LGBT activists remain concerned that a new Virginia law that allows private adoption and foster care agencies to reject prospective parents based on religious or moral beliefs could subject gays and lesbians to what they describe as unnecessary discrimination.

Senate Bill 349, which became known as the “conscience clause,” took effect on July 1 after Gov. Bob McDonnell signed it into law earlier this year. Gay state Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) told the Blade that SB 349 only reinforces current regulations that “made it easier to discriminate” against prospective parents based on their sexual orientation.

“Equality Virginia still believes this constitutes state-supported discrimination, as these agencies are using state funding to perform a public function,” added James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia. “We are most concerned about LGBTQ youth in the foster care system, since agencies can place these children in harmful situations such as ex-gay therapy, as long as doing so is in accordance with the agencies’ beliefs.”

North Dakota is the only other state with a so-called “conscience clause” adoption law.

Catholic Charities of Boston in 2006 ceased adoptions after it refused to comply with Massachusetts’ anti-discrimination law that includes sexual orientation (and now gender identity and expression.) Catholic Charities of Illinois followed suit late last year after lawmakers directed the agency, which received public funds, to place children with same-sex couples after the state’s civil unions law took effect.

State Sen. Jeff McWaters (R-Virginia Beach,) who sponsored SB 349, did not return the Blade’s request for comment. McDonnell spokesperson Taylor Thonrley defended the law.

“This legislation just codifi es existing regulations that prohibit religious discrimination,” she told the Blade. “Private, religious-based adoption agencies are a major asset to our communities as they work diligently to fi nd loving, caring, stable homes for children in need of care. This legislation will help ensure that these adoption agencies remain active in fi nding homes for these children without being mandated by

government to violate the tenets of their deeply held religious beliefs in the process. This is a bill that reaffi rms religious liberty and freedom, a hallmark of this great nation.”

Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of the Family Equality Council, told the Blade that her organization has “not heard directly” from gay Virginians who may have been directly impacted by the statute. She stressed that she feels “it’s just a matter of time before we see it play out.”

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LGBT Asian conference expected to draw 300

More than 300 people are expected to attend the National Queer Asian Pacifi c Islander Alliance’s annual conference in Arlington from July 19-22.

California Rep. Mike Honda; Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Sabrina McKenna; “Glee” actress Tamlyn Tomita; Gautam Raghavan of the White House Offi ce of Public Engagement and Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality are among those who are scheduled to speak at the three-day gathering at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. The conference will also feature more than 70 workshops, plenaries and caucuses on a range of topics that include political representation, immigration, HIV/AIDS, professional development and networking.

“There are all sorts of activities happening,” Alliance executive director Ben de Guzman told the Blade. “Obviously with the International AIDS Conference and our national partners with the Asian Pacifi c and Islander community, we really are looking at this week as a confl uence of all these activities and we’re really excited to carve out our own niche in this mix.”

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Events to focus on gay men’s health, sex workers

With about 30,000 people expected in D.C. for the International AIDS Conference;

a number of panels and other events are scheduled to take place in D.C. before AIDS 2012 offi cially opens on Sunday.

The Gay Men’s Health Summit will take place at George Washington University on Friday and Saturday. Whitman-Walker Health, Us Helping Us, the D.C. LGBT Community Center, The GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the National Coalition for LGBT Health and Master Taino’s Leather Family co-sponsored the two-day gathering that will feature more than 40 workshops on a range of topics. These include coming out as an older adult, mental health and addiction among gay and bisexual men.

Activist and researcher Dan O’Neill and Brant Miller of the D.C. Center on Friday will present a workshop on the D.C. FUK!T campaign that uses sexually explicit messages to promote condom and lube use among men who have sex with men. HIV/AIDS activists in Seattle launched a similar initiative last year, but O’Neill told the Blade that he is optimistic that service providers in other cities will create their own FUK!T-inspired safer-sex campaigns.

“Hopefully with the diverse audience that will be there, they can recreate similar programs where they are if they aren’t

already there,” he said.Latino GLBT History Project President David

Pérez and others on Saturday will present a workshop on the impact of HIV/AIDS on gay Hispanics. Frank Walker and DeAndre Roberts of Youth Pride Services and DeAndre Preston of Code Red will moderate a panel on young black gay men in the United States on Friday. This workshop will also coincide with the release of a national study that details the experiences of roughly 2,000 black LGBT youth from across the country and Puerto Rico.

Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive will host a pre-conference strategy session at its Northeast Washington offi ces on Saturday in support of sex-workers’ rights. “The goal is to really get sex workers together to talk about our plans for the conference itself and moving our agenda forward,” said HIPS executive director Cyndee Clay.

U.S. immigration policy prohibits sex workers and drug users from entering the country — thousands of sex workers and their allies are expected to gather in Kolkata, India, for a conference that will take place during AIDS 2012. HIPS plans to live-stream this gathering at its Global Village exhibit during the D.C. conference.

MICHAEL K. LAVERS

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Police Log The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit participated in the following investigations:

conversation about another person fi nding one of the men attractive. The suspect became upset and struck the victim on the left side of his face and pushed him twice against a tree, causing bruising to the left side of his face and abrasions to the right side of his back and right arm. The suspect fl ed the scene westbound on Q Street, N.W. The two are in a domestic relationship. The suspect was arrested.

altercation with her girlfriend. The suspect then assaulted the victim. The case was closed with arrest.

district requested GLLU for notifi cation for a pending investigation that involves an alleged bias element.

desk at the listed location. The suspect tried to take a basketball and the victim told him he had to sign it out fi rst. The suspect threatened the victim with bodily harm and used homophobic and racist language toward him then reached over the desk and slapped his hand. The case remains open.

broke up a fi ght between two neighbors. The woman then reported that a suspect turned on her and began fi ghting her. She then retreated to her apartment at which time the attacker kicked at her door, yelled at her to come back outside, and threw a chair and broke her kitchen window. The suspect was placed under arrest for destruction of property.

suspect(s) spraypainted homophobic slurs on his vehicle and his front right passenger tire had been slashed as well. The case remains open.

that a suspect pushed out the window A/C unit to enter the victim’s apartment and struck the victim with a stick. The suspect fl ed the scene. The two have a prior domestic relationship. The case remains open.

Virginia Gov. BOB MCDONNELL signed the so-called ‘conscience clause’ measure into law earlier this year.

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TIMOTHY LAURENCE LIPKA, 25

Timothy Laurence Lipka died suddenly of a heart attack in Washington on July 1. He was 25, according to an obituary published in the Charlotte Observer.

Lipka was born in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., on Oct. 24, 1986. He was a 2005 graduate of Providence High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from North Carolina State University in 2010. He was working on a master’s degree at the time of his death. He worked as an administrator at the Caesar Chavez Preparatory Charter School in Washington.

Lipka enjoyed politics and worked on several local, state and national campaigns. He enjoyed living in Washington and frequented its museums and historic sites. Lipka enjoyed following the Washington Nationals, classical music, music, cooking and dogs. Lipka was gay and had played two seasons with the D.C. Gay Flag Football League, according to his friend, Jeffrey Johnson.

He’s survived by his maternal grandparents Laurence and Irma Jean

Campbell of the Isle of Palms, S.C.; his parents David and Janice Lipka of Matthews, N.C.; and his younger brother Eric Lipka of Matthews, N.C. Preceding him in death are his paternal grandparents Samuel and Jerry Lipka of Annapolis, Md.

A memorial service was held July 7. Memorial donations may be made to the Providence High School Band Boosters Club (1800 Pineville-Matthews Rd., Charlotte, N.C., 28270) or the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org).

WILLIAM ABBOTT, 67

William C. (Bill) Abbott, who retired from the Internal Revenue Service in 2006, died at home in Washington on May 22 from a heart condition. He was 67.

Abbott was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on Nov. 13, 1944. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1965, where he also earned a master’s degree. Abbott did some post-graduate work in political science at the University of Tennessee. He taught political science for several years at East Tennessee State University.

Abbott had 35 years of federal government service, including in the U.S. Army Aviation System Command, St. Louis, Mo.,; U.S. Army Computer Systems Support & Evaluation Command, Washington; U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.; and the Social Security Administration, Woodlawn, Md.

Abbott also worked at the IRS Headquarters from 1981 to 2006 where

he was well known in the Procurement Division. He was highly valued at the IRS for his ability to recall contracting regulations and the fi ne details of contracts.

Abbott was known for his ability to remember historical names and facts. He kept meticulous records of American politicians and British royalty and was an avid collector of antiques. He enjoyed playing bridge.

He was preceded in death by his partner, Steve Crick, who died in 1988.

He is survived by his brother, Edward Abbott and several friends.

A memorial event is planned. Those interested in attending should call Gerry Woods at 202-494-2131.

WILLIAM BRADLEY COOK, 41

Funeral services for William Bradley “Brad” Cook, 41, who died July 6 in Grand Forks, N.D., were held July 14 according to the Coffee County Funeral Chapel in Manchester, Tenn., where Cook formerly resided.

Cook was born Aug. 13, 1970 in Coffee County, Tenn., the son of Sue Harner Cook

and the late W.H. Cook, Jr. Cook grew up in Manchester and graduated from Manchester Central High School. He attended Belmont University in Nashville where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English. He then attended the University of Vermont where he obtained a master’s degree in English. He later earned a law degree from Catholic University in Washington.

Cook was employed with the federal government as an attorney. He specialized in patents and trademarks as well as veterans appeals.

While living in Manchester, Brad worked at the family business, Cook Neon Signs, Inc. He was a member of the Forest Mill United Methodist Church.

Cook was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Cook, Sr., and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harner and also his brother-in-law, David Reavis.

Survivors include his mother, Sue Harner Cook of Manchester; his partner of 12 years, Frederick Redwine; two sisters, Tammy Cook Jones and husband, Frank of Manchester and Susan Cook Reavis also of Manchester; fi ve nieces and nephews, Haley Tomasek, Kelsey Tomasek, and Elizabeth, Hannah and Alex Reavis.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Trevor Project at trevorproject.org. Online condolences may be made at coffeecountyfuneralchapel.com.

JOEY DiGUGLIELMO

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Obituaries

‘He was full of love for everyone’


Hundreds of friends, colleagues, patrons and others gathered at JR.’s on Sunday to pay tribute to a Nellie’s bartender who passed away earlier this month.

Mourners wore purple arm bands and T-shirts as pictures of David Chung fl ashed on television screens throughout the bar. A memorial that contained purple and white pompoms and fl owers and a bottle of Jameson whiskey with his picture stood near the bar’s entrance—patrons toasted Chung with shots of the Irish spirit throughout the afternoon.

“He was full of love for everyone,” Zachary Wine, who fi rst met Chung when he applied for a job at Nellie’s, told the Blade. “He was one of the most caring individuals I’ve ever had the grace to know. And he carried that not just to the people he was close with, but the people he didn’t know.”

JR.’s manager Dave Perruzza said he will always remember Chung’s smile.

“Every time I saw him there was always a smile on his face,” he said. “That’s the one thing people remember him by.”

Chung, 26, was found dead early on July 8.Beverly Fields of the D.C. Medical

Examiner’s offi ce told the Blade that the cause of death was “asphyxia due to hanging.” She further confi rmed that Chung took his own life. Wine said during the memorial service that Chung, who is from Paramus, N.J., had struggled with what he described as suicidal tendencies.

He told the Blade that he decided to publicly discuss Chung’s suicide as a way to help others who may want to take their own lives. “If you care about someone, tell them. If you can’t tell them, show them,” said Wine. “If you can’t show them, make yourself fi nd a way to let the people you care about know, and never stop. I myself am horrible about showing my emotions, but it’s only through being there for someone that we can try to make sure this tragedy doesn’t happen again.”

A 2002 University of California San Francisco study found that rates of suicide attempts among urban gay and bisexual men were three times higher than the overall rate for adult men. The Trevor Project

further notes that LGBT youth are up to four times more likely to try to take their own lives than heterosexual teenagers.

Dr. Patricia Hawkins, a clinical

psychologist, told the Blade that possible warning signs that someone is contemplating suicide include lethargy, a loss of interest in the future, giving away favorite things and writing a long letter to friends and family. She said the D.C. Department of Public Health, Whitman-Walker Health and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline are among agencies that offer resources and other assistance to those who may seek to take their own life.

“If you’re worried about somebody and your gut tells you that something is terribly wrong, trust your instincts,” said Hawkins. “You’re much better to talk with the person about it and bring it up. That little bit of support can make a tremendous difference.”

Chung’s funeral took place on July 12 at the Metropolitan Wesley A.M.E. Church in Northwest Washington. A second memorial service is scheduled to take place at Nellie’s on Thursday with proceeds going to a fund that will help Chung’s sister and brother-in-law pay for their children’s education.

The JR.’s memorial service raised more than $3,000 for the Wanda Alston House, a D.C. organization that provides housing and other services to homeless LGBT youth.

Hundreds pay tribute to Nellie’s bartender

DAVID CHUNG died July 8 at age 26BLADE PHOTO BY PETE EXIS

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Do not take REYATAZ if you are allergic to REYATAZ or to any of its ingredients.

REYATAZ does not cure HIV or AIDS and you may continue to experience illnesses associated with HIV-1 infection, including opportunistic infections.

Individual results may vary.

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ALERT: Find out about medicines that should NOT be taken with REYATAZ. Read the section “What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?”Read the Patient Information that comes with REYATAZ before you start using it and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This leaflet provides a summary about REYATAZ and does not include everything there is to know about your medicine. This information does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment.What is REYATAZ?REYATAZ is a prescription medicine used with other anti-HIV medicines to treat people 6 years of age and older who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). REYATAZ is a type of anti-HIV medicine called a protease inhibitor. HIV infection destroys CD4+ (T) cells, which are important to the immune system. The immune system helps fight infection. After a large number of (T) cells are destroyed, AIDS develops. REYATAZ helps to block HIV protease, an enzyme that is needed for the HIV virus to multiply. REYATAZ may lower the amount of HIV in your blood, help your body keep its supply of CD4+ (T) cells, and reduce the risk of death and illness associated with HIV.Does REYATAZ cure HIV or AIDS?REYATAZ does not cure HIV infection or AIDS and you may continue to experience illnesses associated with HIV-1 infection, including opportunistic infections. You should remain under the care of a doctor when using REYATAZ.Avoid doing things that can spread HIV-1 infection.

Do not share needles or other injection equipment. Do not share personal items that can have blood or body fluids on them, like toothbrushes and razor blades. Do not have any kind of sex without protection. Always practice safe sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to lower the chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood.

Who should not take REYATAZ?Do not take REYATAZ if you:

are taking certain medicines. (See “What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?”) Serious life-threatening side effects or death may happen. Before you take REYATAZ, tell your healthcare provider about all medicines you are taking or planning to take. These include other prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.are allergic to REYATAZ or to any of its ingredients. The active ingredient is atazanavir sulfate. See the end of this leaflet for a complete list of ingredients in REYATAZ. Tell your healthcare provider if you think you have had an allergic reaction to any of these ingredients.

What should I tell my healthcare provider before I take REYATAZ?Tell your healthcare provider:

If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. REYATAZ use during pregnancy has not been associated with an increase in birth defects. Pregnant women have experienced serious side effects when taking REYATAZ with other HIV medicines called nucleoside analogues. You and your healthcare provider will need to decide if REYATAZ is right for you. If you use REYATAZ while you are pregnant, talk to your healthcare provider about the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry.

After your baby is born, tell your healthcare provider if your baby’s skin or the white part of his/her eyes turns yellow.

If you are breastfeeding. Do not breastfeed. It is not known if REYATAZ can be passed to your baby in your breast milk and whether it could harm your baby. Also, mothers with HIV-1 should not breastfeed because HIV-1 can be passed to the baby in the breast milk. If you have liver problems or are infected with the hepatitis B or C virus. See “What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?”If you have end stage kidney disease managed with hemodialysis.If you have diabetes. See “What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?”If you have hemophilia. See “What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?”About all the medicines you take including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Keep a list of your medicines with you to show your healthcare provider. For more information, see “What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?” and “Who should not take REYATAZ?” Some medicines can cause serious side effects if taken with REYATAZ.

How should I take REYATAZ?Take REYATAZ once every day exactly as instructed by your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will prescribe the amount of REYATAZ that is right for you.Always take REYATAZ with food (a meal or snack) to help it work better. Swallow the capsules whole. Do not open the capsules. Take REYATAZ at the same time each day. If you are taking antacids or didanosine (VIDEX® or VIDEX® EC), take REYATAZ 2 hours before or 1 hour after these medicines.If you are taking medicines for indigestion, heartburn, or ulcers such as AXID® (nizatidine), PEPCID AC® (famotidine), TAGAMET® (cimetidine), ZANTAC® (ranitidine), AcipHex® (rabeprazole), NEXIUM® (esomeprazole), PREVACID® (lansoprazole), PRILOSEC® (omeprazole), or PROTONIX® (pantoprazole), talk to your healthcare provider.Do not change your dose or stop taking REYATAZ without first talking with your healthcare provider. It is important to stay under a healthcare provider’s care while taking REYATAZ.When your supply of REYATAZ starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. It is important not to run out of REYATAZ. The amount of HIV in your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time. If you miss a dose of REYATAZ, take it as soon as possible and then take your next scheduled dose at its regular time. If, however, it is within 6 hours of your next dose, do not take the missed dose. Wait and take the next dose at the regular time. Do not double the next dose. It is important that you do not miss any doses of REYATAZ or your other anti-HIV medicines. If you take more than the prescribed dose of REYATAZ, call your healthcare provider or poison control center right away.

What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?The following list of side effects is not complete. Report any new or continuing symptoms to your healthcare provider. If you have questions about side effects, ask your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider may be able to help you manage these side effects.The following side effects have been reported with REYATAZ:

mild rash (redness and itching) without other symptoms sometimes occurs in patients taking REYATAZ, most often in the first few weeks after the medicine is started. Rashes usually go away within 2 weeks with no change in treatment. Tell your healthcare provider if rash occurs.severe rash: Rash may develop in association with other symptoms which could be serious and potentially cause death.

If you develop a rash with any of the following symptoms stop using REYATAZ and call your healthcare provider right away:

yellowing of the skin or eyes. These effects may be due to increases in bilirubin levels in the blood (bilirubin is made by the liver). Although these effects may not be damaging to your liver, skin, or eyes, call your healthcare provider promptly if your skin or the white part of your eyes turn yellow.a change in the way your heart beats (heart rhythm change). Call your healthcare provider right away if you get dizzy or lightheaded. These could be symptoms of a heart problem.diabetes and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) sometimes happen in patients taking protease inhibitor medicines like REYATAZ. Some patients had diabetes before taking protease inhibitors while others did not. Some patients may need changes in their diabetes medicine.if you have liver disease including hepatitis B or C, your liver disease may get worse when you take anti-HIV medicines like REYATAZ.kidney stones have been reported in patients taking REYATAZ. If you develop signs or symptoms of kidney stones (pain in your side, blood in your urine, pain when you urinate) tell your healthcare provider promptly.some patients with hemophilia have increased bleeding problems with protease inhibitors like REYATAZ.

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changes in body fat. These changes may include an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the trunk. Loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face may also happen. The cause and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known at this time. immune reconstitution syndrome. In some patients with advanced HIV infection (AIDS) and a history of opportunistic infection, signs and symptoms of inflammation from previous infections may occur soon after anti-HIV treatment, including REYATAZ, is started.

Other common side effects of REYATAZ taken with other anti-HIV medicines include nausea; headache; stomach pain; vomiting; diarrhea; depression; fever; dizziness; trouble sleeping; numbness, tingling, or burning of hands or feet; and muscle pain.Gallbladder disorders (which may include gallstones and gallbladder inflammation) have been reported in patients taking REYATAZ.What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?Do not take REYATAZ if you take the following medicines (not all brands may be listed; tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take). REYATAZ may cause serious, life-threatening side effects or death when used with these medicines.

methylergonovine such as CAFERGOT®, MIGRANAL®, D.H.E. 45®, ergotrate maleate, METHERGINE®, and others (used for migraine headaches).

® (pimozide, used for Tourette’s disorder).® (cisapride, used for certain stomach problems).

® (used for insomnia). ® (used for sedation), when taken by

mouth.Do not take the following medicines with REYATAZ because of possible serious side effects:

® (irinotecan, used for cancer).®

sometimes cause increased levels of bilirubin in the blood.® (lovastatin) or ZOCOR®

(simvastatin).® (alfuzosin, used to treat benign enlargement of the prostate).

® (sildenafil, used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension).Do not take the following medicines with REYATAZ because they may lower the amount of REYATAZ in your blood. This may lead to an increased HIV viral load.

®, RIFADIN®, RIFATER®, or RIFAMATE®, used for tuberculosis).

(Hypericum perforatum), an herbal product sold as a dietary

® (nevirapine, used for HIV infection).The following medicines are not recommended with REYATAZ:

® (salmeterol) and ADVAIR® (salmeterol with fluticasone), used to treat asthma, emphysema/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also known as COPD.

Do not take the following medicine if you are taking REYATAZ and NORVIR® together:

® (voriconazole).The following medicines may require your healthcare provider to monitor your therapy more closely (for some medicines a change in the dose or dose schedule may be needed):

® (tadalafil), LEVITRA® (vardenafil), or VIAGRA® (sildenafil), used to treat erectile dysfunction. REYATAZ may increase the chances of serious side effects that can happen with CIALIS, LEVITRA, or VIAGRA. Do not use CIALIS, LEVITRA, or VIAGRA while you are taking REYATAZ unless your healthcare provider tells you it is okay.

® (tadalafil) or TRACLEER® (bosentan), used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

® (atorvastatin) or CRESTOR® (rosuvastatin). There is an increased chance of serious side effects if you take REYATAZ with this cholesterol-lowering medicine.

® (amiodarone), lidocaine, ® ®, and others).

® (rifabutin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis).® ® ®, (buprenorphine or buprenorphine/

naloxone, used to treat pain and addiction to narcotic painkillers).® (bepridil, used for chest pain).

® (warfarin).® (amitriptyline), NORPRAMIN®

® ® (trimipramine), TOFRANIL® (imipramine), or VIVACTIL® (protriptyline).

® or NEORAL® ® (sirolimus), or PROGRAF® (tacrolimus).

® and others).®, FLOVENT®), given by nose or inhaled to

treat allergic symptoms or asthma. Your doctor may choose not to keep you on fluticasone, especially if you are also taking NORVIR®.

®), used to prevent or treat gout or treat familial Mediterranean fever.

The following medicines may require a change in the dose or dose schedule of either REYATAZ or the other medicine:

® (saquinavir).® (ritonavir).® (efavirenz).

® (didanosine).® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate).

® (rifabutin).® or TIAZAC® (diltiazem),

COVERA-HS® or ISOPTIN SR® (verapamil) and others.® (clarithromycin).

® (nizatidine), PEPCID AC® (famotidine), TAGAMET® (cimetidine), or ZANTAC® (ranitidine).

Talk to your healthcare provider about choosing an effective method of contraception. REYATAZ may affect the safety and effectiveness of hormonal contraceptives such as birth control pills or the contraceptive patch. Hormonal contraceptives do not prevent the spread of HIV to others. Remember:1. Know all the medicines you take.2. Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take.3. Do not start a new medicine without talking to your healthcare provider.How should I store REYATAZ?

not store this medicine in a damp place such as a bathroom medicine cabinet or near the kitchen sink.

keep medicine that is out of date or that you no longer need. Dispose of unused medicines through community take-back disposal programs when available or place REYATAZ in an unrecognizable, closed container in the household trash.

General information about REYATAZThis medicine was prescribed for your particular condition. Do not use REYATAZ for another condition. Do not give REYATAZ to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them. Keep REYATAZ and all medicines out of the reach of children and pets.This summary does not include everything there is to know about REYATAZ. Medicines are sometimes prescribed for conditions that are not mentioned in patient information leaflets. Remember no written summary can replace careful discussion with your healthcare provider. If you would like more information, talk with your

What are the ingredients in REYATAZ?Active Ingredient: atazanavir sulfateInactive Ingredients: Crospovidone, lactose monohydrate (milk sugar), magnesium stearate, gelatin, FD&C Blue No. 2, and titanium dioxide.

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Several voting members support adding language

By CHRIS [email protected]

The question of whether the Democratic Party platform will include an endorsement of same-sex marriage has reemerged after the naming of committee members who’ll write the document.

The Washington Blade solicited responses from each member of the platform drafting committee — both voting and non-voting members — to determine if they’d support including an endorsement of marriage equality in the platform with the exception of Tom Wheeler, who couldn’t be reached for comment.

Three voting members — Carlos Odio, a Latino Democratic activist, Donna Harris-Aikens, the National Education Association’s director of policy and practice, and NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan — went on the record saying they’d unequivocally back such language, as did two non-voting members — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Democratic National Committee Secretary Alice Germond — while others had different responses and the majority had no response at all.

Last week, the Democratic National Committee announced the names of the 15 people who’ll serve on the platform drafting committee, which will create the platform defi ning the principles of the Democratic Party over the course of the next four years during the second term of offi ce that President Obama is seeking.

The platform drafting committee, which will be chaired by former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, includes Democrats ranging from high-profi le public offi cials, to scholars, to leaders of non-profi t organizations. Among them is Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the longest-serving openly gay member of Congress who announced his planned retirement as a lawmaker late last year.

Other notables include Keenan, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Serving as ex-offi cio members, or non-voting members, are Patrick, Germond and Wheeler.

The fi rst publicly scheduled meeting for the group is a national hearing during the weekend of July 27 in Minneapolis, Minn., where the committee will hear public presentations. The committee will then meet to draft the platform which will ultimately be used as a working document by the full platform committee chaired by

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the fi rst female to reach the rank of three-star general in the Army. Veteran political consultant Andy Grossman has been named as the DNC’s national platform director.

The full Platform Committee will convene at a meeting during the weekend of Aug. 10 in Detroit where members will discuss the draft platform and have the opportunity to submit new proposed amendments, which need approval by a majority of the committee voting and present for passage. The platform will then be delivered to convention delegates in Charlotte.

Odio, who served as deputy Latino vote director for the 2008 Obama campaign and as a liaison for Latino leaders at the White House Offi ce of Political Affairs, said he’ll “absolutely” advocate for a marriage equality plank in the Democratic Party platform.

Odio is now director of special projects at the New Organizing Institute, an organization that facilitates for social justice through grassroots and online activism.

Miguel Gonzales, an NEA spokesperson, confi rmed that Harris-Aikens would similarly support the idea of including marriage equality in the platform on behalf of NEA without providing a direct statement from her.

Similar statements came from the two non-voting members of the panel. Patrick expressed support for a marriage equality plank in a statement delivered to the Blade in April that has previously gone unpublished.

Boy Scouts reaffi rm anti-gay stance

IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday the group has decided to keep in place a policy that bars participation by openly gay scouts, scout masters and parents.

“With organizations including the Girl Scouts of the USA, the Boys & Girls Club and the U.S. military allowing gay Americans to participate, the Boy Scouts of America need to find a way to treat all children and their parents fairly,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick, upon the organization’s announcement that it had conducted a two-year study on the matter and concluded parents would prefer the ban to remain in place. “Until this ban is lifted, the Scouts are putting parents in a situation where they have to explain to their children why some scouts and hard-working scout leaders are being turned away simply because of who they are. It’s unfair policies like this that contribute to a climate of bullying in our schools and communities.”

The Scouts’ statement suggested the organization is unlikely to visit the issue again for some time, but advocates and activists have vowed to continue to push the organization regardless, including online petition engine, Change.org, which delivered another round of petitions to the organization the day after the announcement.

Former NBA star renews vows at gay bar

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — To show support for same-sex marriage rights, longtime LGBT ally NBA star Doug Christie and his wife Jackie celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at the West Hollywood gay bar Club Eleven, according to Outsports.com.

“The reason we wanted to do it here was we wanted to bring attention to the gay community,” the former Los Angeles Clipper’s wife told the crowd. “We absolutely love, adore and stand united with all people no matter what gender, doesn’t matter if you’re gay or lesbian, whatever it is we love you, and we want you to all be able to get married too, when you want to.”

Anti-gay group considers Google boycott

TUPELO, Miss. — The manager of American Family Association radio, Buster Wilson, suggested that the organization boycott internet search giant Google, according to LGBT blog The New Civil Rights Movement.

The statement was in reaction to Google’s “Legalize Love” campaign, meant to raise awareness of laws criminalizing homosexuality around the world, in hopes of eliminating those laws. Wilson suggested that the boycott would “test the meat” of his supporters’ “convictions,” as he suggests Google products, from calendar to Android phones, are in wide use at the fundamentalist Christian group.

Thomson Reuters opposes Minn. marriage ban

MINNEAPOLIS — Publishing giant Thomson Reuters says its opposition to the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Minnesota is a “business decision.”

Mike Suchsland, president of Thomson Reuters Legal, and Rick King, COO, Technology, the company’s two highest-ranking Minnesota-based executives, explained their opposition to the amendment in an email to the Minnesota-based staff, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

“We believe the Minnesota Marriage Amendment, if passed, would limit our ability to recruit and retain top talent,” the e-mail said. “For this reason, we do not believe that the Amendment would be good for Thomson Reuters or the business community in the state.”

Minnesota already bars same-sex marriage in law, but is one of four states where November ballot measures will decide the fate of various same-sex marriage related bills, when voters there will decide whether to encode the ban in the state Constitution. In Washington, Maine and Maryland, voters will decide whether to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

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Fauci says conference to ‘galvanize’ around theme of small advances

By LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

Many of the scientists from around the world attending the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., scheduled to convene on Sunday will examine what researchers say is the leading stumbling block to a cure for AIDS.

Highly effective AIDS drugs have reduced the viral load in people with HIV to undetectable levels, keeping them healthy and enabling most to live a full lifespan as long as they stick to their drug regimen.

But researchers say the anti-retroviral drugs that keep people with HIV healthy by preventing the virus from replicating

currently cannot reach relatively low levels of virus that are capable of becoming dormant and embedded in “reservoirs” within certain cells in the human body.

“Even after all of the body’s active HIV has been eliminated, a missed dose of anti-retroviral drugs can allow the hibernating virus to emerge and ravage its host all over again,” according to an article in the July 17 issue of Science Daily.

The conference is scheduled to take place July 22-27 at the Washington Convention Center.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of AIDS research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, told the Washington Blade on Tuesday that dozens of scientifi c presentations at the conference will likely focus on themes that address incremental steps, with the ultimate goal of developing an AIDS vaccine or a cure.

Fauci is scheduled to deliver the opening address at the conference on Monday. He said no major scientifi c

breakthroughs are expected to emerge from the event.

“So rather than there being meetings where there are three or four scientifi c breakthroughs there really is a sort of consolidation or galvanization around a theme,” he said. “The theme of this meeting is “Turning the Tide Together.”

He said the title of his opening address is “Ending the AIDS Epidemic From Scientifi c Advances to Public Health Implementation.”

“And what you’re going to hear throughout the meeting is various iterations in different regions, in different populations, different demographic groups about the challenges – the biological, behavioral and other challenges – of getting that done,” Fauci said.

The conference website, aids2012.org, includes a list of all of the scientifi c papers scheduled to be presented at various panels and sessions as well as non-scientifi c sessions addressing public

policy issues such as HIV prevention and treatment issues.

“The cure thing is going to be very basic, like understanding the nature of the HIV reservoir,” Fauci said. “Are there ways that we can eradicate that reservoir? If we can’t eradicate it are there ways we can either boost up the immune system or modify the host so that their cells are not susceptible to being infected?”

Jose Zuniga, president of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, which is sponsoring several conference-related events, said other leading topics expected to be addressed by AIDS researchers are use of AIDS drugs as a means of preventing HIV infection and the use of aggressive treatment programs as another mode of prevention.

The decision this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the use of the AIDS drug Truvada as an HIV prevention pill is expected to draw the attention of many conference participants. (See related story on Page 22.)

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Researcher talks about state of AIDS on eve of conference By LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the key leaders of the U.S. government’s fi ght against AIDS for nearly 30 years. Since 1984, Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is an arm of the National Institutes of Health.

Although his work covers research into other infectious diseases, Fauci serves as one of the lead advisers to the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on domestic and global AIDS issues, according to biographical information released by the NIH.

He has been credited with developing effective strategies for the treatment of people with HIV/AIDS as well as for the continuing effort to develop an AIDS vaccine.

Fauci spoke to the Blade this week about his hopes and expectations for the 19th International AIDS Conference scheduled for July 22-27 in Washington. About 30,000 people, including scientists, AIDS researchers, government offi cials, and AIDS activists from the U.S. and abroad are expected to attend the conference.

Washington Blade: Can you say something about what important

scientifi c advances and research fi ndings will emerge from International AIDS Conference in Washington next week?

Dr. Fauci: As in most international meetings of this size it is unusual for there to be a scientifi c breakthrough of pure scientifi c nature that hasn’t already been seen, discussed, and vetted out in the press. It is very unusual that a major league breakthrough would all of a sudden be totally timed for discussion at the meeting. So that’s not a negative comment or a positive comment. It just is what it is. Meetings like this have themes and they kind of crystallize and galvanize people around a particular theme.

The Vancouver [International AIDS Conference] in 1996 – the theme of that was the fi rst time that we began discussing in earnest the issue of having a combination of drugs that would get the virus below a detectable level and what impact would that have on the longevity and the lifestyle and functionality of people. That was the big theme of that meeting.

The 2000 [International AIDS Conference] in Durban was can we start getting drugs that we know work in the developed world to the developing world when there were demonstrations in Durban, South Africa.

So rather than there being meetings where there are three or four scientifi c breakthroughs there really is a sort of consolidation or galvanization around a theme. So the theme of this meeting, as you know, is Turning the Tide Together.

They’ve asked me to lead off the opening plenary session on Monday, July 23, with a particular approach to the meeting. In other words, to kind of set the scientifi c tone of the meeting. And that’s exactly what it is because the title of my talk is “Ending the AIDS Epidemic From Scientifi c Advances to Public Health Implementation.”

And what you’re going to hear throughout the meeting is various iterations in different regions, in different populations, different demographic groups about the challenges – the biological, behavioral and other challenges – of getting that done. So I’m going to talk about how we went from fundamental scientifi c discoveries to interventions that you could actually use to help people – mostly treatments and prevention – to how we began to implement them, fi rst in the developed world and then in the developing world.

And now what the science-based possibilities are for actually ultimately ending the AIDS pandemic. Then you are going to hear in rapid succession after that either major talks or just minor presentations of details of that. Like Phill Wilson is going to talk about the perspective from the African-American community. Others will talk about it from different countries – Southern African countries, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, etc. So that’s going to be the prevailing theme. And then obviously there are going to be other approaches about individual

specifi c, more granular scientifi c issues like the challenges of an HIV vaccine. We don’t have a vaccine. Where have we come from? Where are we now and where do we hope to go? There are going to be a lot of discussions and panels on that.

There’s a satellite session before the meeting starts on toward an HIV cure. You know, what do we mean by a cure? How does a cure relate to the rest of the things that are going on? What are the scientifi c challenges of a cure?

So we have a bunch of things that are at the stage of having been developed and they just need to be implemented. So you’re going to hear a lot about

implementing programs. And then there are a couple of still existing major scientifi c challenges, one of which is a vaccine and theher of which is a cure.

Blade: Can you say where we stand on

both of those things?Fauci: Well, with a vaccine we are

probably closer than we are to a cure.

Q&A with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. ANTHONY FAUCI of the NIH has been involved in the fi ght against AIDS since the onset of the epidemic. (Photo courtesy NIH)

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D.C. resident John Klenert signed up for a National Institutes of Health-funded AIDS study at Johns Hopkins University in 1984. The Centers for Disease Control reported the fi rst cases of what became known as AIDS three years earlier, but some of Klenert’s friends had already passed away from the virus by the time the research project had begun.

“We fi gured if there was going to be a cure that we would be the fi rst ones to volunteer to get these tests,” he said.

Johns Hopkins researchers in 1986 screened the fi rst blood samples that Klenert and other study participants had given once scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. “For me, the fi rst blood I had given was positive,” he said. “I would have been shocked had I turned out to be negative.”

Older people with HIV will be the focus of a July 25 forum at the International AIDS Conference. Panelists will include Ricardo Jimenez of the Ecuadorian Red Cross, Carolyn Massey of Older Women Embracing Life, Inc., Wojciech Tomczynski of the Polish Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Association and Ruth Waryaro of Help Age International in Uganda. Doctor Kevin Fenton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Stephen Karpiak and Mark Brennan-Ing of AIDS Community Research Initiative of America’s Center on HIV and Aging and New York University College of Nursing are among those who are scheduled to speak during the plenary.

The CDC estimates that 10.8 percent of the roughly 50,000 new HIV infections that occur each year in the United States are among those older than 50. It further reports that 16.7 percent of new diagnoses in 2009 were among this demographic, with half of them also having AIDS. Federal health offi cials predict that half of people with HIV in the United States by 2015 will be older than 50.

ACRIA, the New York-based Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders co-organized the forum as part of what SAGE Senior Director of Public Policy Robert Espinoza described to the Blade as a need to increase visibility around HIV-related aging issues.

“We feel it’s an important conversation because there are so many people who are aging with HIV and AIDS,” he told the Blade.

Increased access to treatment in the United States and other developed countries has allowed more people with HIV to live longer. The arrival of more

widely available anti-retroviral drugs in the mid-1990s has also contributed to this trend.

“If you were 35 in 1990 and you made it to the mid to late 90s and got on protease inhibitors, there’s a good chance you’re still alive today and you’d be above 50,” said ACRIA executive director Daniel Tietz. “And that’s the reality.”

Older people with HIV face unique challenges

Johns Hopkins and CDC researchers noted earlier this year that older people with HIV are more likely to suffer higher rates of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, non-AIDS related cancers and other chronic illnesses. Klenert, who is now 63, has had a brain tumor removed and an operation to repair an aneurysm over the last 30 years. He said that his neurologist and cardiologist both said that his HIV status did not contribute to either of these conditions.

“There are many folks who age into this — they’ve had HIV for a while, their HIV is reasonably well-managed,” said Tietz. “It’s their other things. It’s their hypertension, the diabetes, the heart disease that are posing challenges in terms of management.”

This population also faces the same hurdles that service providers maintain older LGBT people without the virus routinely face. These include a lack of health care, fi nancial insecurity and social isolation, but a person’s HIV status can acerbate these problems.

“The LGBT community in general is not great on aging issues; they tend to be more youth centered,” said Espinoza. “We fi nd that a lot of older adults with HIV are often looking just for both the caregiving support they need to manage their health and remain optimistic and maintain their emotional health, but they are looking for community.”

He and other service providers stressed that stigmas associated with HIV and sexuality can dissuade older people from discussing their sexual health with doctors and other health care providers.

“If you’re not talking openly to people who manage your health then it’s going to then prevent the kind of services you need to age successfully,” said Espinoza, further stressing that many health care providers don’t even provide HIV tests to their older patients who could have just become sexually active after leaving a relationship or getting divorced. “We’re dealing with constituents who have been living with HIV and AIDS for years. We’re dealing with constituents who have been infected for years, but just got diagnosed, which often means the illness has progressed more in their bodies. And then we’re also dealing with constituents who just became infected and are trying to assimilate to both the

emotional and health issues related to their infection.”

The New York City Council has funded ACRIA’s efforts to bolster HIV prevention efforts among older New Yorkers with HIV. The National Institutes of Health’s Offi ce of AIDS Research has also established a working group to study the virus’ impact on older people.

“I don’t think government offi cials have put this on their radar screen as much as they should,” said Espinoza. “As the demographic really begins growing in the next two years, we’re going to see more questions from aging providers and health care professionals about what it means to appropriately serve older adults with HIV and engage them in their facilities or in their long-term care facilities. And with that, I’m hoping that government offi cials will also increase their attention and increase the funding for that kind of programmatic prevention.”

Seeking to increase visibilityThose who advocate on behalf of older

people with HIV further stress that lack of visibility remains a problem.

The Graying of AIDS project profi les older people with the virus as a follow-up to photojournalist Katja Heinemann’s eponymous photo essay that “Time” published in 2006 to mark the epidemic’s 25th anniversary. D.C. resident Ronald Johnson, vice president of policy and advocacy for AIDS United, is among the 11 people that Heinemann and Naomi Schegloff profi le in photographs and short videos.

Schegloff, who works in the public health fi eld, told the Blade that she “very much appreciated” what she described as “frank discussions” about sexuality that took place with many of those whom she and Heinemann profi led. Discrimination, a desire for companionship and a general lack of information about HIV are also common themes.

“A lot of older adults have not been on the market in the last 30 years, or have barely been on the market in the last 30 years,” said Schegloff. “If they’ve been with a partner — married or otherwise — for a long time, they may or may not have dated at a time when HIV was something we knew about. If for them condoms are something that you use to avoid getting pregnant and they’re heterosexual and they’re a woman and they’ve gone through menopause, they’re not worried about that anymore. And it used to be that for people of a certain generation, the worst thing you could get through sex as one person told us in an interview is something you can take penicillin for now. They weren’t necessarily thinking about this thing [HIV] as being relevant to them.”

Heinemann and Schegloff plan to

photograph and interview those from the United States and around the world who are interested in participating in their project during the Global Village at the International AIDS Conference. They will upload images, interview excerpts and other content to an online exhibition during the fi ve-day gathering.

“For us as a visual project and a documentary project, we’re hoping to really put a face to this that will be a little bit of a wakeup call where you don’t just read the statistic,” said Heinemann. “But you’re also able to see oh yeah wait a minute, this is not just Bill in Chicago and Ronald in D.C. This is also a person from Tanzania; this is also a person from Russia or someone from India.”

Klenert, a former Victory Fund and Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation board member, also refl ected upon those with HIV who continue to grow older.

“I’d like to think that people in my age group are hopeful as well as surprised,” he said in response to a question about the changes he has seen since he tested positive. “I’m guessing that most of us didn’t think that we would live this long. There’s that old greeting card [that says] had I lived this long I would have taken better care of us. Back when we were in our 30s — or late 30s — none of us expected to live this long because back then the mortality rate was almost 100 percent.”

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Lifting of HIV travel ban initiated by previous administration


HIV/AIDS advocates from around the world are descending on D.C. for the 19th International AIDS Conference with a shared goal: to eliminate a disease that has taken the lives of more than 25 million people worldwide.

Despite unity on this goal, politics inevitably plays a role in the response to the epidemic and advocates have widely differing views on who has done more in recent years to combat HIV/AIDS both at home and abroad: former President George W. Bush or President Obama.

Some praise the Obama administration for laying out a comprehensive plan and bumping up domestic funding to confront the epidemic, while others yearn for the Bush days because of the global initiatives the Republican president started despite his reputation for anti-gay policies.

Jim Driscoll, a gay Nevada-based HIV/AIDS activist who served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS during the Bush administration, is among those who believes Bush did more to stop the epidemic.

“I never sat down and had a one-on-one conversation with him, but people who did talked about how open he was to doing things on AIDS and how interested he was in that subject,” Driscoll said. “There wasn’t anything the community asked him to do that I was involved in that he didn’t do.”

Those who say Bush has done more for HIV/AIDS identifi ed three major initiatives under the Bush administration: the start of a program called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, to confront the global AIDS epidemic; streamlining fund allocation under the Ryan White Care Act to consider people who have HIV infection without full-blown AIDS; and allowing the fi rst-ever rapid HIV tests to be used outside medical offi ces.

Driscoll, a Republican who’s backing GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential election, recalled the process by which Bush approved rapid testing and said it was praised by many — with the exception of some Food & Drug Administration offi cials whom he overruled.

“It was a big step forward, and George Bush actually personally had a lot to do with that,” Driscoll said. “The president actually overruled FDA, and I was in the room when this was announced. There were about 100 people in the room, I think. I remember still that when he announced his approval of rapid testing ... everybody

in the room gave him a standing ovation except for the three people from FDA, who sat glumly. They didn’t applaud or anything.”

The AIDS Drug Assistance Programs under Bush didn’t see the waiting list levels that have been seen under the Obama administration. Under Obama, the waiting list last year reached an all-time high of 9,928 low-income people awaiting HIV drugs. That number has since dropped to about 2,000 today, according to the administration.

That’s not the only complaint that’s been lodged against Obama, who’s been criticized for reducing the global AIDS program that was set up by Bush. In his most recent budget request to Congress, the White House cut the program by half a billion dollars.

Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said HIV/AIDS was a “higher priority” for Bush than it is for Obama, citing the ADAP waiting list and the distinction in PEPFAR as a key difference between the presidents.

“We had practically no global AIDS program prior to President Bush taking offi ce, and before he left offi ce, they approved a $48 billion plan for PEPFAR, which Sen. Obama voted to authorize and enact,” Weinstein said. “This year, President Obama for the fi rst time in the history of the program asked for less money for global AIDS than we had last year, and there’s $1.4 billion in unspent money in PEPFAR.”

However, the president’s most recent budget request includes an increase for domestic programs against HIV/AIDS: a $75 million increase for Ryan White and an increase of $67 million for ADAP from last year to eliminate waiting lists by 2013.

As for PEPFAR, the White House has maintained that the program is doing more with less by using generic drugs and shipping commodities more cheaply. On World AIDS Day, Obama announced he would fully fund the balance of the administration’s three-year, $4 billion pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson, defended the administration’s work on HIV/AIDS by citing achievements as well as plans set into motion to confront the epidemic.

“President Obama and his administration are unwavering in their commitment to addressing the issue of HIV/AIDS — on both the domestic and global fronts,” Inouye said. “These include steps such as establishing and implementing the fi rst comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy, lifting the HIV entry ban, and strengthening the impact and sustainability of PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.”

Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is also slated to have signifi cant impact on people living with HIV. The Medicaid expansion under the health care reform law is expected to signifi cantly expand coverage because half the people living with HIV already receive care through the program.

Carl Schmid, deputy executive director of the AIDS Institute, said Obama has “defi nitely” done more on HIV/AIDS — at least on the domestic front — in part because of his willingness to talk about how the disease impacts gay men.

“They are over 60 percent of the epidemic,” Schmid said. “Focusing on this community that has been ravaged by HIV, allowing a discussion and making gay people more acceptable — this could really turn the tide on HIV prevention for gay men. We have a president who is focusing on the community [and directing] resources that are more in line with how the epidemic is.”

In comparison, Bush took fl ak from HIV/AIDS advocates for not taking action on the epidemic in ways that might upset his conservative base. Among his actions: promoting abstinence-only sex education, opposing federal funds for needle exchange programs and remaining silent on gay men and condoms for much of his administration.

Michael Rajner, a gay Fort Lauderdale-based HIV/AIDS advocate who’s living with AIDS and has been selected as a delegate for the Democratic National Convention, said he thinks Obama has “absolutely” done more to fi ght HIV/AIDS based on a more science-based approach he’s taken against the disease.

“The difference between Republican and Democrat — in this case, George W. Bush and President Obama — is really

the difference in thought, whether they’re going to be addressing HIV/AIDS through ideology and through science, and President Obama has certainly embraced the issues of science,” Rajner said.

One achievement often attributed to Obama is the lifting of the regulatory travel ban that prevented HIV-positive foreign nationals from entering the country — a move that enabled the International AIDS Conference to take place in the United States. But this process actually started under the Bush administration. Under Bush’s leadership, Congress repealed a law that barred HIV-positive foreign nationals from entering as part of the legislative package authorizing PEPFAR.

Schmid said he was “intimately involved” in the process under which Bush starting lifting the HIV travel ban.

“Credit goes to George Bush’s administration and the Congress for lifting the travel ban in reauthorization of PEPFAR,” Schmid said. “There still was a process at HHS, and Obama fi nished that process. It wasn’t completed in time, unfortunately, under President Bush, but they defi nitely lifted it congressionally.”

Driscoll said Bush should be commended because he accomplished work on HIV/AIDS despite being beholden to social conservatives who elected him to offi ce.

“Every president, every politician is limited by his constituents, by the people who put him in offi ce, who voted for him and the people he would depend upon to do the same thing should he run again,” Driscoll said. “You have to consider what a president does in terms of the limitations that are imposed. I think, given, the limitations that George Bush’s constituencies imposed, he showed real leadership.”

PRESIDENT BUSH initiated the lifting of the HIV travel ban, but PRESIDENT OBAMA’s administration fi nished the job.

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Mixed reactions from advocates; some worry about side effectsBy LOU CHIBBARO [email protected]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced it has approved use of the AIDS drug Truvada for reducing the risk of HIV infection among uninfected people considered at high risk for contracting HIV through sexual contact.

The decision to allow Truvada to be taken daily in the form of a pill as part of a prevention regimen known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or “PrEP,” has drawn mixed reactions among AIDS advocacy organizations, with most supporting the decision.

But others have raised strong objections, saying potentially harmful side effects of Truvada along with the risk of HIV infection through non-adherence to a rigid daily drug regimen, which in turn could lead to drug-resistant strains of HIV, far outweigh the benefi ts.

“Today’s approval marks an important milestone in our fi ght against HIV,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg. “Every year, about 50,000 U.S.

adults and adolescents are diagnosed with HIV infection, despite the availability of prevention methods and strategies to educate, test, and care for people living with the disease,” she said.

“New treatments as well as prevention methods are needed to fi ght the HIV epidemic in this country,” Hamburg said.

Truvada, which is manufactured by the pharmaceutical fi rm Gilead Sciences, was fi rst approved in 2004 by the FDA for use as a treatment for HIV.

In announcing its approval for use as a prevention drug, the FDA pointed to two large placebo-controlled trials of the drug as a prophylaxis that were sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Washington.

One of the trials conducted in the U.S. and abroad evaluated the drug in 2,400 HIV-negative men or transgender women who have sex with men and who are prone to “high risk behavior,” such as inconsistent or no condom use during sex, according to a statement released by the FDA.

“Results showed Truvada was effective in reducing the risk of HIV infection by 42 percent compared with [a] placebo in this population,” the FDA statement says.

It says the second trial included 4,759 heterosexual couples where one partner

was HIV-infected and the other was HIV negative. Truvada reduced the risk of becoming infected by 75 percent compared to participants taking a placebo, the FDA statement says.

Among those supporting the FDA decision to approve Truvada as a prevention drug is Project Inform, the San Francisco-based HIV patient advocacy group that has closely observed prevention and treatment options for people with HIV and AIDS for more than 20 years.

“Project Inform is extremely pleased with a landmark decision by the FDA to approve the fi rst biomedical HIV prevention product in the history of the epidemic,” the group said in a statement.

“Finally, after 30 years, HIV-negative individuals have a new way to protect themselves from becoming infected,” said Project Inform Director Dana Van Gorder. “While PrEP isn’t a tool that will be appropriate for broad use, we are thrilled to have a new option that could offer substantial benefi t to those at highest risk for HIV, including gay and bisexual men and transgender women who struggle with consistent condom use, and in heterosexual women living in areas with high HIV rates whose partners refuse to use condoms,” Van Gorder said.

The AIDS Institute, a national AIDS advocacy group with offi ces in Washington, D.C. and Florida, and the Boston-based Fenway Health and its research arm Fenway Institute also issued statements supporting the FDA action.

Taking the opposite view is the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which provides HIV/AIDS treatment programs in the U.S. and in countries throughout the world, including Africa and Asia.

“My initial reaction is that this is a catastrophe for AIDS prevention in the U.S.,” said Michael Weinstein, AHF’s executive director.

Weinstein said global trial studies cited by the FDA involved constant monitoring and encouragement by organizers to ensure that participants adhered to their daily drug regimen as well as engaged in safer sex practices, such as condom use.

“The bottom line is that was under ideal conditions,” he said. “People were tested monthly. They were intensively counseled. They were paid to be in the study. And only about 50 percent took the drug.”

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One activist calls decision ‘kick in the teeth’


President Obama will prepare a video message for attendees of the 19th International AIDS Conference in lieu of making a live appearance at the event, according to the White House.

The White House announced this week that Obama is set to provide a brief video message for the conference, which kicks off Sunday in D.C., as part of “[c]ontinuing his personal engagement on this issue.” Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson, confi rmed this video message would be in lieu of a live appearance at the event.

“The president will not be speaking at the conference,” Inouye said. “He will provide a brief video message to welcome Conference attendees from around the world to Washington.”

Organizers of the conference had invited the president to deliver remarks at the event as HIV/AIDS advocates had publicly expressed their desire to see him make an appearance and call for an end to the epidemic. They also wanted him to talk about achievements of his administration, such as laying out the fi rst-

ever National AIDS Strategy and creating more opportunities to cover people with HIV/AIDS under the Medicaid expansion of the health care reform law.

The statement announcing the video message touts the Obama administration’s efforts at combating HIV/AIDS.

“Under the president’s leadership, the administration has increased overall funding to combat HIV/AIDS to record levels,” the statement says. “We have launched the fi rst comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States to prevent and treat HIV in America. Globally, the Obama Administration has committed to treating 6 million people by the end of 2013 and is increasing the impact and sustainability of our investments.”

According to the statement, the White House will also host a reception on July 26 to honor people living with HIV and to thank individuals who have fought against the disease.

Other high-ranking administration offi cials are set to attend the event, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius; U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby; Director of the White House Offi ce of National AIDS Policy Grant Colfax; and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

at the National Institutes of Health.Former President Clinton is slated to speak

as is former fi rst lady Laura Bush; former President George W. Bush, who set up the fund known as the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was invited to speak but hadn’t responded to the invitation as of earlier this week, according to organizers.

HIV/AIDS advocates had varying reactions to Obama’s decision to skip the event.

Brian Hujdich, executive director of HealthHIV, expressed disappointment, but appreciated that the president would address attendees via video.

“While we are disappointed that President Obama will be unable to address the International AIDS Conference in person, his decision to address attendees via video demonstrates the importance he places on AIDS 2012 and HIV,” Hujdich said. “As the fi rst president to set a comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy and pass meaningful healthcare reform, his commitment to addressing HIV prevention care and treatment is strongly demonstrated.”

Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, called Obama’s decision not to attend “a kick in the teeth” to attendees.

“It’s less than a mile from the White House to the convention center,” Weinstein said. “He’s fl ying back into town on Friday night. I think he’s making

an intentional statement by not attending, and he’s either waiting for a better offer or he doesn’t feel like he’d get a good reception and doesn’t want to expose himself to that, or he’s consciously wanting to [let it be] known that this is not a priority for him, which he’s done a pretty good job at for the last three-and-a-half years.”

Obama to skip Int’l AIDS Conference

PRESIDENT OBAMA disappointed some AIDS activists this week when the White House announced he would not speak at the International AIDS Conference.

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AIDS Memorial Quilt at HRC HeadquartersJuly 1-31Human Rights Campaign | 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.

HRC will be one of approximately 50 sites around the city to display panel sections from the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The display will be open to the public July 1-31.

Faith & AIDS 2012Taking Action Together, Interfaith Pre-ConferenceFriday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21Howard University

Dr. Sharon Groves, HRC’s Director of Religion and Faith, will be a featured speaker for a workshop titled, “Breaking the silence: faith work at the intersections of HIV and the lives of LGBT people,” Friday, July 20 at 3:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion at HRC HeadquartersAddressing Stigma in Transgender and other HIV-Vulnerable CommunitiesSaturday, July 21, 2012 | 5 - 7 p.m.Human Rights Campaign | 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.

HRC, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), International Treatment and Preparedness Coalition and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) are sponsoring a panel discussion to provide a platform for strengthening the response to stigma in HIV-vulnerable communities in North and Latin America and the Caribbean, and to increase understanding of and commitment to gender-sensitive, evidence- and human rights-informed interventions targeting transgender people and other most at-risk individuals.

Global VillageJuly 22-27Walter E. Washington Convention Center801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W.

The Global Village at AIDS2012 is a community gathering place open to the public. Please stop by and visit HRC’s booth. WWW.HRC.ORG/AIDS2012 | #AIDS2012

Satellite Session: The Great TRANSformationSunday, July 22, 2012 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.Walter E. Washington Convention Center | Session Room 7801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W.

HRC is participating in the AIDS 2012 Satellite Session “The Great TRANSformation: Towards a Holistic Approach for Healthier and Happier Trans Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Organizers include PAHO; UNDP; USAID; REDLACTRANS; AIDSTAR-One; WPATH; IAPAC; and Translatin@. There will be around 300 participants in the satellite session including members of the transgender community, HIV program managers, civil society representatives, technical and development partners, and researchers.

Community Gospel ConcertMonday, July 23, 2012 | 7 - 9 p.m.Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church900 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.

HRC is excited to be a sponsor of One Voice: Gospel Artists Respond to AIDS. Join gospel artists and choirs for rejoicing and a celebration of hope in our collective struggle against AIDS. This is a ticketed event.

Forum Co-Sponsor with Whitman Walker ClinicTuesday, July 24, 2012 | 7 p.m.Lisner Auditorium | 730 21st St., N.W.

HRC has joined the Whitman Walker Clinic to co-sponsor “Return to Lisner” an event focusing on the current state of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. In April 1983, Whitman-Walker organized the first community forum in DC on HIV/AIDS at Lisner Auditorium. They are reprising that event, looking at the progress that has been made and the future of new medical advances. HRC is honored to be a co-sponsor of this event with Whitman Walker Clinic, which has been on the frontlines of the epidemic in DC since the earliest days. Registration is required.

Large turnout for marriage fundraiser

Nearly 100 supporters packed the Ellicott City home of Lou and Diana Ulman, the parents of Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, on July 13 to attend a fundraiser for Marylanders for Marriage Equality (MD4ME). Donors paid $75 to $2,000 for the event that saw a number of elected offi cials lending their support to defeat the November referendum to overturn the Civil Marriage Protection Act.

The fundraiser was co-hosted by Ken Ulman and County Register of Wills Byron Macfarlane who is the fi rst ever openly gay offi ceholder in the county. All four of the Democratic County Council members attended as did state Del. Guy Guzzone and state Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery).

In introducing Ulman, Macfarlane said, “Howard County has a major role in winning this referendum.” He thanked Ulman and the other elected offi cials for their personal commitment to the cause.

Ulman, who many predict will make a run for governor in 2014, said, “Our

values of diversity and acceptance make Howard County the best place in America. In November, we will be the fi rst state in America to pass this.”

MD4ME campaign Chair Josh Levin said the effort has a “values framework” whereby conversations with voters must take place to get the word out that emphasizes a lifetime commitment by same-sex couples. He stressed the need to raise money to not only pay for direct mail and run a fi eld organization but to also counter the scare tactics commonly used by the opposition in these battles who “will appeal to the worst natures and worst fears.”

Madaleno told the Blade, “If every offi cial of Ken Ulman’s status would hold such events, it would be quite helpful.”

The amount raised was not available.

Ruppersberger undecided on marriage

On a night the Columbia Democratic Club unanimously passed a resolution supporting marriage equality, Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, who was a guest speaker, remained noncommittal. “This is very diffi cult for me,” Ruppersberger, a moderate fi ve-term Democrat, said in response to a question from the Blade on his position. “I had supported civil [unions] but there are religious issues [about marriage] that make it hard. But I also have to look at discrimination.” The meeting took place on July 11.

Ruppersberger, who previously did not respond to a Blade survey on the marriage referendum, said he is “moving slowly in the direction you would like” but is undecided at this time. He mentioned that he has sought counsel from a number of constituents as well as his family on both sides of the issue. Among the opponents are African-American pastors from large churches who are “dead set against gay marriage.” He promised to disclose how he would vote when he eventually reached a decision.

Ruppersberger’s 2nd Congressional District includes parts of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties as well as a small portion of Baltimore City. He noted that Harford County and the Baltimore County areas of Dundalk and Essex are particularly conservative, and support for same-sex marriage would not go over well. Nonetheless, it’s still an open issue for him.

Republican State Sen. Nancy Jacobs (Harford), who stepped down from her leadership position to run for Congress, is a likely opponent in November. She has one of the most anti-LGBT voting records in the legislature and is a leader in opposing same-sex marriage.

Teens talk comingout at JCC

The second monthly meeting of parents of Jewish LGBT children took place at the Rosenbloom Owings Mills Jewish Community Center (JCC) on July 11. The topic for the meeting involved the teen experience.

A panel of college-aged young adults shared their journeys with a dozen parents who were eager to have a glimpse into the adolescent experience. The students spoke about the coming out process, challenges they have faced, support that has been useful and even shared advice for parents. The parents asked questions of the students and sought to become more knowledgeable about what parents can do to make the community a more accepting environment.

The social support group meets the second Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the same location. The topics of conversation will vary. For more information, email [email protected].

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BSO performs Michael Jackson hitsThe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents “The Music of Michael Jackson”

on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Pier Six Pavilion (731 Eastern Ave., Baltimore).The BSO will perform the singer’s music spanning 40 years including Jackson 5

jams like “ABC” and later hits like “Thriller” and “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Tickets range from $20-40 and can be purchased at piersixpavilion.com. For more

information on the show and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, visit bsomusic.org.

‘Hot Sauce’ at Grand CentralGrand Central Nightclub (1001 North Charles St., Baltimore) hosts “Hot Sauce”

by DJ Rich Morel on Saturday at 10 p.m. Morel has become a highly sought-after singer/songwriter, producer and

remixer, working with high-profi le artists such as Cyndi Lauper, The Killers and La Roux. The DJ set will include his signature innovative electro-pop dance beats.

Morel and his partner, Bob Mould, team up as the duo Blowoff for their hugely popular monthly show at the 9:30 Club. Morel has also garnered fame from his collaboration with the Grammy-winning house music group Deep Dish on hits like “Cabaret” and “Under a Disco.”

Admission to “Hot Sauce” is $10 and limited to guests 21 and over. For more details, visit centralstationpub.com or morelwork.wordpress.com.

Artscape in town all weekendArtscape, Baltimore’s premier arts event and America’s largest free arts festival,

starts today and will be held through Sunday. Artscape features work by a huge span of fi ne artists, fashion designers and craftspeople, as well as dance, opera, theater, fi lm, experimental music and other performing arts events.

The festival is held in outdoor tents and inside fi ne exhibition spaces in a number of locations. The fi nalists for the Sondheim Artscape Prize currently have their work on display at the Baltimore Musuem of Art through July 29 (10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore). The Modell Performing Arts Center (140 West Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore) is a good landmark to use for directions for the festival.

Festival highlights include Meyerhoff Symphony Hall tours hosted by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Art Car Show and Parade and the “at-TENT-ion” exhibit in which 20 tents have been transformed into works of art.

“Artscape” is from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. today and Saturday, and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on Sunday. For more details on the many events at the festival and to download a festival map, visit artscape.org.

Pearls of Wisdom group to meet at CenterPearls of Wisdom (POW), a support group for women in the LGBT community,

meets Saturday from 1-3 p.m. at the GLBT Community Center of Baltimore (241 West Chase St., Baltimore).

POW meets every fi rst and third Saturday of the month and provides a safe space for women to engage in open and confi dential discussion about relationships, identity, coming out and more.

If interested in attending, contact “Q” at [email protected] and visit glccb.org for more information.

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Remembering lost friends, looking forward to a future free of HIV

Many are old enough to have known the world before HIV/AIDS. I’m often thankful that I didn’t come out until after I knew about AIDS. Both of those things occurred at about the same time. A time when so many in the LGBT community began talking about a rare type of can-cer, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and we soon had friends who were being diagnosed with it.

It was a scary time because no one knew what was causing it and if and how it was transmitted from one person to another. Early on it was called a “gay dis-ease” because so many gay men were being diagnosed. One thing it did was draw the LGBT community together both in fear and compassion to fi ght it and to support our friends who were getting sick.

In the early ‘80s and for many years, young men would open the newspaper every morn-ing and look at the obituary column for names they knew. That used to be something only old people did but in those days we all did it. When we found a name it meant crossing out another line in our address books because another friend or acquaintance had died from this scourge. I still have all those old address books so I don’t forget all the friends I lost — the friends I hoped one day to grow old with.

The fi rst close friend I lost was Glen

Michael Judd. He was a fl amboyant, fun-loving soul who lived life to the fullest, only to fi nd it a very short life. He was one of the fi rst people I came out to and when he asked if he could come visit me in my of-fi ce for lunch I suggested we meet at the restaurant. He guessed right away I was embarrassed to have him come to the of-fi ce because some there may think I was gay. He not only forgave me but ended up teaching me so much about people and accepting them for who they are. He died a slow and painful death with every ailment one could have imagined, including going blind. Yet in one way he was lucky. He had a loving family who held him in their arms until the very end. Other friends weren’t so fortunate and many died without their fam-ilies around. They relied on friends and the families we became for each other. I often think of all those who died much too young including Michael Sawyer, Bob Federici, Paul Ludeman, Alan Milsap, Mitch Foushee and Steven Fine to name just a few.

The LGBT community fought against the bigotry surrounding AIDS and became more united because of it. We raised money and formed organizations like ACT UP and Whit-man-Walker Clinic to speak out and care for each other. We marched and spoke out con-ducting candlelight vigils at the Lincoln Me-morial and actions like Hands-Around-the White House. We supported the making of the AIDS Quilt and cried together the fi rst time it was laid out on the National Mall so that everyone could see the devastation this disease had caused to individuals, families

and society. We had heroes like Elizabeth Taylor who fi rst forced Ronald Reagan to speak the word AIDS and Bob Hattoy who spoke at the Democratic National Conven-tion in 1992 and became the face of AIDS in the Clinton administration. We rallied around Ryan White when he was kept from going to school and began AIDS Walks and AIDS Rides across the nation to raise money for research, education and care.

As more than 20,000 people descend on Washington this week to participate in the fi rst International AIDS Conference to be held in the United States in 20 years, we must look back from where we came and forward to the day that AIDS is eradicated in the world. We know the devastation it has caused and still causes. We know that it is epi-demic in the District of Columbia. We know that we have drugs that can help people with HIV/AIDS but are still fi ghting to get enough funding so that everyone can benefi t from them. We also know that even when people can afford the drugs, AIDS can have a drastic impact on their life and that of their families. In some instances the drugs just don’t work.

Today many consider AIDS a chronic dis-ease that can be managed if diagnosed at an early stage so we work to have people get tested and into care. We know how AIDS is transmitted and educate our young people on how to avoid it. And yet with all this people around the world are still getting HIV/AIDS. While it is not always the death sentence it was 30 years ago, we still have a long way to go and my hope is that I will be around to see it eradicated completely.

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Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.

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President Obama committed to the fi ght to create an AIDS-free generation

By DR. GRANT COLFAX &DR. ERIC GOOSBY

As the two people who worked as phy-

sicians in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic before the miracle of antiretrovi-ral drug (ARV) therapy, and who now have the honor of leading the domestic and global HIV/AIDS programs for the Obama administration, we look back in awe of the American leadership that has transformed the epidemic in the 22 years since the In-ternational AIDS Conference was last held on U.S. soil. As we remember the lives lost to this disease and commit to the vision of an AIDS-free generation, it’s worth re-fl ecting on how U.S. leadership and U.S. investments to combat HIV/AIDS domes-tically and internationally are saving lives and turning the tide against the disease.

Here at home, we have more than tri-pled the life expectancy of people living with HIV/AIDS since 1993. More than half a million persons living with HIV receive care and treatment through the Ryan White program, established in 1990 and maintained with consistent bipartisan con-gressional support through four admin-istrations. Successful prevention efforts have averted more than 350,000 new in-fections and mother-to-child transmission of HIV has dropped by more than 90 per-cent since the early 1990s. HIV prevention has also generated substantial economic benefi ts. A recent study estimated that

HIV prevention efforts in the United States have saved $129.9 billion in medical costs.

In 2010, President Obama released the fi rst-ever National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and he has made implementing the strategy a top priority by requesting increased fund-ing for HIV treatment and care services ev-ery fi scal year. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, the president’s domestic budget for HIV/AIDS is $22.25 billion, including requesting a $40 million increase for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV preven-tion efforts, and an additional $74 million to increase treatment and care services for our nation’s veterans living with HIV. The presi-dent has also increased federal investments for AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) to expand access to life-saving medications and assist states with ADAP waiting lists. A shared federal-state program, federal fund-ing for ADAPs has increased every year of the Obama administration, rising from $815 mil-lion in FY 2009 to $933 million in FY 2012. In FY 2013, the president proposed a total of $1 billion for ADAPs, a $67 million increase above FY 2012. These steps have concrete results — ADAP waitlists have declined by 80 percent since September 2011, dropping from more than 9,000 to approximately 2,000 today, and the federal budget provides suf-fi cient resources to end the waitlists once and for all, if states also step up and do their part.

In addition, people living with HIV have much to gain from the Affordable Care Act. People with HIV are more likely to be uninsured, are more likely to face barriers in accessing medical care, and often experi-ence higher rates of stigma and discrimina-tion than other groups. The Affordable Care Act seeks to expand Medicaid for the lowest income people; it strengthens and improves

Medicare, and makes private insurance work better for all Americans, including people with HIV. The Act also prohibits discrimina-tion on the basis of HIV status, bans lifetime limits on insurance coverage and is phasing out annual limits in coverage.

Globally and building on the strong foundation laid by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has made unprecedented progress in the fi ght against AIDS. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has expanded its prevention, care and treatment programming, and now has sig-nifi cant investments in more than 80 coun-tries in several regions worldwide. Since FY 2008, PEPFAR has increased the num-ber of people supported on treatment by more than 2.1 million and the number of individuals receiving HIV testing and coun-seling by almost 19.9 million, supporting nearly four million people on treatment HIV testing and counseling for more than 40 million people in 2011 alone. And on World AIDS Day 2011, President Obama announced a new treatment goal of reach-ing six million people by the end of 2013.

Since taking offi ce, President Obama has requested more than $26 billion in funding for global HIV/AIDS, including both bilateral U.S. government PEPFAR programs and our con-tribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tu-berculosis and Malaria. In his FY 2013 Budget, the president fulfi lled his historic commitment to request $4 billion over three years for the Global Fund. We are grateful for the bipartisan support that PEPFAR has received from Con-gress since its inception and the continued bipartisan support for the Global Fund.

In FY 2013, we made the decision to re-allocate resources from within PEPFAR

and take an exceptional step at a unique moment to strengthen the Global Fund. Because of the interdependence of the two programs, strengthening the Global Fund now will also help ensure the suc-cess of PEPFAR; equally as important, U.S. contributions to multilateral institutions like the Global Fund allow us to leverage in-creased contributions from other countries. In recent months, new and existing donors, including Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany and the Gates Foundation, have stepped up their contributions. We know that other donors are also planning to do the same.

The fact of the matter is that our achievements are continuing to grow rapidly. This is due to greater effi ciencies borne of driving our programming with evidence of impact, the growing com-mitment of governments and citizens in the developing world, the reduced costs of treatment, and the growing impact of prevention. With our current budget re-quest PEPFAR will meet the President’s World AIDS Day goals for treatment, care and prevention, including the dramatic in-crease in people supported on treatment from 4 to 6 million. Along with comple-mentary efforts to strengthen the Global Fund, this will accelerate progress toward the goal of an AIDS-free generation.

While tough budget decisions come with the job, President Obama has committed us to achieving more in the fi ght to create an AIDS-free generation in the U.S. and across the globe, and we’re succeeding. That con-tinues the legacy of American leadership on HIV/AIDS that should make us all proud.

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Recommitting to AIDS fight key part of boosting community

By CHRISTOPHER DYER

In 1968, Frank Kameny coined the phrase “Gay is Good.” Since then, LGBT people have achieved many victories and become a visible, active, dynamic and fabulous community. For many, gay is good but in order to truly honor Frank’s legacy, we need to make it great.

One of the ways we can make it great is by recommitting ourselves to the fi ght against HIV/AIDS and improving our collective health. The impact of homophobia and growing up as outcasts has had a negative effect on our self-esteem. In my case, this manifested itself in struggles with substance abuse, smoking and a lifelong struggle with obesity and diabetes. Many in our community suffer similar struggles.

According to several studies, the LGBT community is more likely to smoke, abuse drugs, engage in high-risk sex acts and are more prone to suicide ideation and depres-sion. Our HIV rates are still unacceptably high and while there have been great improve-ments in prevention messaging, the ability to make lasting, meaningful change is limited by a fi nite amount of fi scal resources and political will that government is willing to commit. Ad-ditionally, as progressive as government can be, a campaign about self-esteem created by LGBT people for LGBT people isn’t necessarily the highest priority in public health prevention.

One of the best ways to boost self-esteem is to take action. Getting a regular HIV test and knowing your status is crucial in prevent-ing the spread of HIV. Testing is just a start; we need to take to Twitter, GRINDR and other social media and encourage our friends and loved ones to get tested. If each of us were to

encourage 10 friends to get regular HIV tests, it would make a signifi cant impact. Having frank and open conversations about whether or not we practice safe sex with one another would also be good. Many of us, including me, don’t practice fealty to safe sex all the time and candid peer-led discussions should have a lasting impact.

Additionally, we need to feel comfort-able intervening when our friends drink and drug too much. I have been blessed with the gift of sobriety and have spent a lot of time in bars, beaches and nightclubs and having a blast. I have seen members of the community who struggle with addiction and a culture that seems un-comfortable at intervening. We need to feel more comfortable talking to friends whose drinking might be out of control. These conversations aren’t easy but I can attest to their effi cacy. I was very fortunate

to have several friends point out that my drinking was out of control and I got help. I have friends who are still struggling and the conversations are painful and frustrat-ing, but they are necessary and can eas-ily be replicated. I also tend to feel much better about myself by being able to help.

We should be nicer to one another in places where we go to socialize. The online world seems to be a great defl ator of self-esteem. For some, the online experience reduces our identities to a picture of a well-sculpted chest and people aren’t always the nicest when rejecting suitors.

Gay is good, but let’s work to make it great

Christopher Dyer is a consultant and experienced advocate in the LGBT community. Reach him at [email protected].

Dr. Grant Colfax is director of the Offi ce of National AIDS Policy and Dr. Eric Goosby is the nation’s Global AIDS Coordinator.


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By DR. GREGORY PAPPAS

Half of the people living with HIV in the United States reside in 12 cities and D.C. is one of them. Urban America continues to suffer high rates of HIV despite successes of antiretroviral treatment that can suppress the virus, decrease transmission, prevent progression to AIDS, and lower death rates.

HIV knows no boundaries; it does not discriminate. The global U.S. response known as the President’s Emergency Pro-gram for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) succeed-ed by enhancing funding, coordinating government efforts and working across jurisdictions. Bold action cut across bu-reaucratic and government boundaries. Bureaucratic bottlenecks gave way to co-ordinated programs that delivered medi-cations across boundaries and saved mil-lions of lives. President Bush, President Obama and Congress should be con-gratulated for this success and we should now emulate the model in the U.S.

The highways that connect Washing-ton environs and Baltimore convey more

than just traffi c; they are also corridors for the transmission of diseases. We live in a fl uid society where people from all over the region communicate and con-nect. The corridor from Northern Vir-ginia, through D.C. and up to Baltimore have become one social, economic and epidemiological unit. The urban epi-demic among men who have sex with men, heterosexuals and intravenous drug users has intensifi ed. In D.C., one in four minority gay and bisexual men are now HIV positive. HIV is spreading from cen-ter cities to the suburbs. HIV is spreading from the center cities to the suburbs.

A domestic PEPFAR would emphasize enhanced spending, promote regional data and plan and coordinate services re-gionally. A study by the CDC estimates that we need about $10 billion invested now to save $66 billion over the long term by avert-ing infections and the medical costs that

follow. Better coordination with the federal government will increase effi ciencies. Our health departments are burdened with managing and reporting on upwards of a dozen federal grants with overlapping grant periods and duplicative require-ments that could be greatly simplifi ed if the federal government worked in a more coordinated fashion. PEPFAR cut the red tape abroad; we can do the same at home. Fighting the epidemic in the region can also be improved by better coordination of services. People living across the street from a clinic in a different state cannot use their government insurance there.

Washington, Baltimore and adjoin-ing counties offer an historic opportu-nity for the federal government to apply the PEPFAR approach. The region has strong public health departments, na-tionally recognized medical facilities and global academic institutions. They form

the foundation for what could become a coordinated response to the regional epidemic. We also have dedicated com-munity residents, HIV-positive people and activists that are well poised to col-laborate in a regional coordinated effort.

Let D.C. and Baltimore be a national example of coordination by funding a do-mestic PEPFAR model right here. Hold us accountable for results in reducing new HIV cases on a regional basis, ensuring people get quality care and providing critical data to document success. Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland and Mayor Vincent Gray of D.C. recently wrote Presi-dent Obama urging him to address the regional nature of the HIV epidemic and help our jurisdictions work together by facilitating a necessary collaboration. The president can use the international stage of AIDS 2012 as the opportunity to announce a domestic PEPFAR for ur-ban America starting in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. By this initiative, the leadership he brought with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy can take the next step in ending the domestic epidemic.

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We cut red tape abroad, why not domestically?

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Prevention, delivery ofcare greatly improved in recent yearsBy EARL FOWLKES, JR.

In several days, the XIX International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington, D.C. and about 30,000 scientists, HIV/AIDS activ-ists, physicians, and advocates will descend on our nation’s capital. Recently there has been much refl ection on the impact that HIV/AIDS has had on Washingtonians since the last international AIDS conference was held in the United States in 1990.

I arrived in Washington from New York City in the mid-1990s to run a small faith-based HIV/AIDS organization called Damien Ministries. I remember being shocked by the impact HIV/AIDS was having on our nation’s capital, which was a relatively small city compared to the larger cities that were overwhelmed by the disease at that time. The disease was having a devastating impact on Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) — both black and white — as well as on black women of childbearing age, and heterosexual men who were mostly IV drug users. The sys-tem of care for those living with HIV/AIDS

in D.C. was fragmented, and the health department was in disarray and could pro-vide very little effective leadership. The rates of infection were going through the roof and HIV/AIDS prevention efforts for communities of color seem to rely solely on condom use and abstinence only. There were many HIV/AIDS organizations, both small and large as well as individu-als, who are performing herculean tasks in providing care with few resources.

Fast forward to 2012 and one can see that things have drastically improved, particularly in the area of HIV/AIDS pre-vention and the delivery of care in Wash-ington. About 122,000 District residents re-ceived an HIV/AIDS test in 2011. There have been no children born with HIV in the Dis-trict since 2009. Five million male and female condoms were distributed in 2011, which is incredible when you consider the popula-tion of the District is only 660,000. The HIV/AIDS continuum of care is much improved

with newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS men and women moving quickly into treatment and care after being diagnosed with HIV.

The District has no waiting list for our AIDS Drugs Assistance Program (ADAP). The D.C. Department of Health, HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administra-tion and HIV/AIDS, service providers and the community can take some degree of satisfaction in knowing that the rates of infection leveled off in the District for fi rst time since the pandemic started. The HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns — Ask For the Test and the Rubber Revolution also have appeared to contribute to increased HIV awareness and prevention in the Dis-trict. However, the most important change has been the vast improvement of coordi-nation between HAHSTA and community-based organizations that provide the bulk of HIV services in D.C. Consistent leader-ship from the Department of Health has been a factor in this improvement of coor-

dination of HIV services and District. While these are bright signs that we

are fi nally getting a handle on HIV/AIDS in the District, there is still much to be done. HIV/AIDS and sexual education must be taught in our schools, commu-nity centers and places of worship. The HIV/AIDS rates for our youth and seniors are still too high. We must also remember the important role that our smaller HIV/AIDS providers play as gatekeepers to various communities throughout the city especially as funding streams become smaller. These smaller HIV/AIDS provid-ers must also take stock of the realiza-tion that this may be the time to look at consolidation and stronger linkages with medical providers to make the HIV/AIDS continual care system even stronger.

We must continue to understand how racism, sexism and poverty impacts deci-sion- making when it comes to HIV/AIDS messaging and prevention, especially for communities of color. Finally, we must ac-knowledge that the leveling of the rates of HIV/AIDS in our city is not the end of the beginning but the beginning of the end in the fi ght to eradicate this disease from all parts of our community.

What’s ahead for D.C.’s fi ght against AIDS

Earl Fowlkes, Jr. is chair of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s GLBT Advisory Committee.

Dr. Gregory Pappas is senior deputy director of the D.C. Department of Health’s HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration (HAHSTA).

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beginning of the end in the fi ght to eradicate this disease.

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The early days of AIDS bred fear, but brought us together

By MARK LEE

As odd as it may seem to today’s younger gay men, it was before the ad-vent of the Internet. Telephone answering machines were only beginning to come into use, and were the size of, well, VCRs.

In the early months of 1981, news spread of a mysterious “rare cancer” af-fecting gay men in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Thirty-one years ago this month, the Centers for Dis-ease Control reported clusters of hospital-ized gay male patients with Karposi’s sar-coma and Pneumocystis pneumonia. By

the end of the year, the death toll was 121.At the time, then-folded copies of the

then-biweekly Washington Blade would arrive every other Friday morning at busi-nesses throughout the center of the lo-cal gay community surrounding Dupont Circle. Some would gather early on those days to grab the latest edition in search of news about the mysterious ailments felling gay men in the Northeast and on the West Coast. Blade reporters of the day — notably Steve Martz, Jim Marks and Lisa Keen — provided details of the latest developments.

We were eager for any news we could get our hands on. We would pop in neigh-borhood bookstores to pick up daily news-papers from New York and San Francisco. Any tidbit of information gleaned from a friend in the Castro or lower Manhattan was immediately shared and passed on.

We debated whether the whole thing could be a result of the use of poppers, an early cautionary theory. We secretly hoped it would prove that simple.

Searching our bodies for skin anoma-lies or lesions, or any swelling of lymph nodes, eventually became a regular rit-ual. We started looking at others in the same exploratory way. Hardest of all, we struggled against the accusation too

large a number would hurl our way — that somehow we deserved this plague or had brought it upon ourselves.

It was an era in which we remained outcasts with our differentness breeding distance, hostility and discrimination. We had only begun to fi nd comfort and com-panionship – and an increasing level of visibility – in the localized enclaves we in-habited and the bars we frequented. We danced in the hope of warding off what-ever demons there might be, or at least to momentarily forget they were there.

For those of us young enough at the time to be discovering the possibili-ties of our futures, we longed to assure ourselves that life would soon return to normal. An exponentially spiraling sense of danger and increasing incidence of ill-ness quickly leading to death, however, interrupted our lives and wreaked havoc in our emerging sense of identity.

We suddenly found ourselves living in a frightening time that we suspected was going to get worse. And it did.

Painful was the sense that we were dis-posable, that few cared much, that the response by government and medicine was inadequate. Our anger and alone-ness led us to understand the importance

of shared struggle and joining together to develop an infrastructure for a diverse and growing community.

Most gay men now in their late 40s or older carry an unwritten list of names next to their heart – a litany of the many friends and acquaintances who would succumb to AIDS over the years. When a reminder comes along, prompting a rush of recollection and the sadness of so many talented and wonderful people dy-ing at an early age, we remember.

In the 20 years or so until HIV/AIDS led less to death than medical management, we memorialized many. In Washington, we had the privilege of hosting multiple displays of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in its entirety, fi rst in 1987 and subsequently in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1996 when it covered the entire expanse of the National Mall.

The heartbreak of visiting the panels of loved ones and the heartache from the im-mensity of it all was palpable. Part virtual graveyard, part political protest, the Quilt allowed us to grieve as a community and to share our loss with others in a celebration of the lives of those no longer among us.

It’s also an ongoing tribute to what they taught us in death and we’ve be-come in life.

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From fear and despair to promising new treatments and hopeBy DR. RAY MARTINS

On April 4, 1983, AIDS entered the public arena of the District of Columbia.

On a Monday evening 29 years ago, Whitman-Walker held the fi rst public fo-rum on AIDS in D.C. At that time, Cab-bage Patch dolls were a hit, people were watching “M*A*S*H” and AIDS was de-stroying the gay male community. A pan-el of public health experts and advocates spoke to a full house at Lisner Auditorium of The George Washington University. The audience of predominantly gay men was driven to the forum after watching friends, lovers and colleagues die quickly and horribly from AIDS. And they were in a state of fear bordering on panic.

The forum that night probably did little to calm that fear. Think about what was happening in 1983. AIDS had only been re-cently named. The HIV virus had not been discovered yet. There was no test to see if someone was infected and there was no treatment. In fact, people were unsure if you could catch AIDS from a simple kiss. In

short, there was almost no good news that night; only fear and despair for the future.

Today, on the eve of the 2012 Interna-tional AIDS Conference, there is far more good news in the world of HIV/AIDS.

Since that forum in 1983, HIV testing has become standard operating proce-dure for many Americans, particularly those in groups at high risk for HIV, like gay or bisexual men. Successful treatments are keeping people with HIV healthy and alive for many years. And people are more knowledgeable about condom use and other safer sex practices.

Over the last few years, even more de-velopments have brought new hope and optimism in the fi ght against HIV/AIDS, including the idea of using HIV medica-tions to prevent HIV transmission, also known as “Treatment as Prevention.”

One of the best ways to reduce new HIV transmissions is by diagnosing people with HIV, getting them into care and on medica-tions. These HIV medications can suppress the amount of virus in the person’s blood to very low levels, which make it much less likely for that person to transmit the virus. In fact, studies have shown successful treatment to reduce the risk of transmission by up to 96 per-cent. This same strategy is used to prevent the mother’s HIV from transmitting to the baby.

Another way HIV medications are used to reduce transmission is through HIV “post-exposure prophylaxis” or “PEP.” If a person has a needle stick at work or an unsafe sexual encounter they can take HIV medications for a month to prevent infection. This method is at least 80 percent effective if used within 72 hours of the potential exposure.

Recently, studies have shown HIV medications can be taken by individuals at high risk for HIV before they are ex-posed to the virus to protect them from infection. “Pre-exposure prophylaxis” or “PREP” is still undergoing clinical trials but seems to be very effective for certain populations at high risk for HIV, such as men who have sex with men and serodis-cordant couples (where one partner has HIV and the other is HIV-negative).

All of these new “Treatment as Preven-tion” tools add to weapons in the fi ght against new HIV transmissions, but none are a magic bullet. Currently, in the District of Columbia, 70 percent of people diag-nosed with HIV do not have a suppressed viral load. Why is this number so high? A large number of people in D.C. have HIV and do not know it. Others have been diagnosed with HIV but have not seen a doctor yet (often due to denial, stigma, etc.). And lastly, a good percentage of

HIV-positive people on medication do not have a suppressed HIV viral load due to poor adherence to their medication regi-men (often due to depression, addiction issues or competing priorities). We are lucky at Whitman-Walker to have compre-hensive health care on site, including care teams, mental health practitioners, a phar-macy, and nurses that focus on patients’ barriers to care. Through this team model, 85 percent of our HIV patients on medica-tions have a suppressed viral load.

Now that the health care community has more options in our fi ght against HIV, we have to fi gure out a comprehensive way to prevent new HIV transmissions from occurring. But the good news is that we are more knowledgeable about HIV transmission and there are more preven-tion options with known effectiveness.

So come join us in a Return to Lisner Auditorium on Tuesday, July 24, at 7 p.m. You will hear from leaders in the fi eld that reducing the number of new HIV infec-tions in Washington, D.C. is possible. You will learn about “Treatment a s Preven-tion.” And we will all refl ect on how far we have come in the past 29 years.

The state of HIV in Washington: 29 years later

MARK LEE is a local small business manager and long-time community business advocate. Reach him at [email protected]

Dr. Ray Martins is chief medical offi cer of Whitman-Walker Health.

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In addition, also tell your healthcare provider if you take: an antacid medicine that contains aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA a histamine-2 blocker medicine, including famotidine (Pepcid®), cimetidine (Tagamet®), nizatidine (Axid®), or ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac®). Take these medicines at least 12 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA the antibiotic medicines clarithromycin (Biaxin®), erythromycin (E-Mycin®, Eryc®, Ery-Tab®, PCE®, Pediazole®, Ilosone®), and troleandomycin (TAO®) an antifungal medicine by mouth, including fl uconazole (Difl ucan®), itraconazole (Sporanox®), ketoconazole (Nizoral®), posaconazole (Noxafi l®), voriconazole (Vfend®)methadone (Dolophine®)

This list of medicines is not complete. Discuss with your healthcare provider all prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements you are taking or plan to take.

INDICATIONCOMPLERA® (emtricitabine 200 mg/rilpivirine 25 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) is a prescription HIV medicine that contains 3 medicines, EMTRIVA® (emtricitabine), EDURANT™ (rilpivirine), and VIREAD® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) combined in one pill. COMPLERA is used as a complete single-tablet regimen to treat HIV-1 infection in adults (age 18 and older) who have never taken HIV medicines before.

COMPLERA does not cure HIV and has not been shown to prevent passing HIV to others. It is important to always practice safer sex, use latex or polyurethane condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with any body fl uids, and to never re-use or share needles. Do not stop taking COMPLERA unless directed by your healthcare provider. See your healthcare provider regularly.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATIONContact your healthcare provider right away if you get the following side effects or conditions while taking COMPLERA: Nausea, vomiting, unusual muscle pain, and/or weakness. These may be signs of a buildup of acid in the blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious medical condition Light-colored stools, dark-colored urine, and/or if your skin or the whites of your eyes turn yellow. These may be signs of serious liver problems (hepatotoxicity), with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly), and fat in the liver (steatosis) If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV), your liver disease may suddenly get worse if you stop taking COMPLERA. Do not stop taking COMPLERA without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will monitor your condition

COMPLERA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how COMPLERA works, and may cause serious side effects.

Before taking COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you:have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infectionhave kidney problemshave ever had a mental health problemhave bone problems are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child are breastfeeding; women with HIV should not breast-feed because they can pass HIV through their milk to the baby

Contact your healthcare provider right away if you experience any of the following serious or common side effects:Serious side effects associated with COMPLERA: New or worse kidney problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. If you have had kidney problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do blood tests to check your kidneys during your treatment with COMPLERA Depression or mood changes can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms: feeling sad or hopeless, feeling anxious or restless, or if you have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the main part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The cause and long-term health effect of these conditions are not known Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fi ght infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine

Common side effects associated with COMPLERA: trouble sleeping (insomnia), abnormal dreams, headache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, rash, tiredness, and depression

Other side effects associated with COMPLERA: vomiting, stomach pain or discomfort, skin discoloration (small spots or freckles), and pain

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of COMPLERA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it Always take COMPLERA with a meal. Taking COMPLERA with a meal is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. A protein drink does not replace a meal Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA and see your healthcare provider regularly

Please see Patient Information for COMPLERA on the following pages.

* The co-pay program covers up to $200 per month for 1 year from card activation or until the card expires, up to $2400 in a calendar year. The program is subject to change or cancellation at any time.

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COMPLERA. A complete HIV treatment in only 1 pill a day.

Ask your healthcare provider if it’s the one for you.

You may be able to save on the co-pay for your COMPLERA prescription with a Gilead HIV Co-pay Assistance Card.

Call 1-877-505-6986 for more information or visit www.COMPLERA.com.*

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Do not take COMPLERA if you are taking the following medicines:other HIV medicines (COMPLERA provides a complete treatment for HIV infection.) the anti-seizure medicines carbamazepine (Carbatrol®, Equetro®, Tegretol®, Tegretol-XR®, Teril®, Epitol®), oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®), phenobarbital (Luminal®), phenytoin (Dilantin®, Dilantin-125®, Phenytek®) the anti-tuberculosis medicines rifabutin (Mycobutin), rifampin (Rifater®, Rifamate®, Rimactane®, Rifadin®) and rifapentine (Priftin®) a proton pump inhibitor medicine for certain stomach or intestinal problems, including esomeprazole (Nexium®, Vimovo®), lansoprazole (Prevacid®), omeprazole (Prilosec®), pantoprazole sodium (Protonix®), rabeprazole (Aciphex®) more than 1 dose of the steroid medicine dexamethasone or dexamethasone sodium phosphate St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) other medicines that contain tenofovir (VIREAD®, TRUVADA®, ATRIPLA®) other medicines that contain emtricitabine or lamivudine (EMTRIVA®, Combivir®, Epivir® or Epivir-HBV®, Epzicom®, Trizivir®)rilpivirine (Edurant™)adefovir (HEPSERA®)

In addition, also tell your healthcare provider if you take: an antacid medicine that contains aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA a histamine-2 blocker medicine, including famotidine (Pepcid®), cimetidine (Tagamet®), nizatidine (Axid®), or ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac®). Take these medicines at least 12 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA the antibiotic medicines clarithromycin (Biaxin®), erythromycin (E-Mycin®, Eryc®, Ery-Tab®, PCE®, Pediazole®, Ilosone®), and troleandomycin (TAO®) an antifungal medicine by mouth, including fl uconazole (Difl ucan®), itraconazole (Sporanox®), ketoconazole (Nizoral®), posaconazole (Noxafi l®), voriconazole (Vfend®)methadone (Dolophine®)

This list of medicines is not complete. Discuss with your healthcare provider all prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements you are taking or plan to take.

INDICATIONCOMPLERA® (emtricitabine 200 mg/rilpivirine 25 mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) is a prescription HIV medicine that contains 3 medicines, EMTRIVA® (emtricitabine), EDURANT™ (rilpivirine), and VIREAD® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) combined in one pill. COMPLERA is used as a complete single-tablet regimen to treat HIV-1 infection in adults (age 18 and older) who have never taken HIV medicines before.

COMPLERA does not cure HIV and has not been shown to prevent passing HIV to others. It is important to always practice safer sex, use latex or polyurethane condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with any body fl uids, and to never re-use or share needles. Do not stop taking COMPLERA unless directed by your healthcare provider. See your healthcare provider regularly.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATIONContact your healthcare provider right away if you get the following side effects or conditions while taking COMPLERA: Nausea, vomiting, unusual muscle pain, and/or weakness. These may be signs of a buildup of acid in the blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious medical condition Light-colored stools, dark-colored urine, and/or if your skin or the whites of your eyes turn yellow. These may be signs of serious liver problems (hepatotoxicity), with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly), and fat in the liver (steatosis) If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV), your liver disease may suddenly get worse if you stop taking COMPLERA. Do not stop taking COMPLERA without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will monitor your condition

COMPLERA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how COMPLERA works, and may cause serious side effects.

Before taking COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you:have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infectionhave kidney problemshave ever had a mental health problemhave bone problems are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child are breastfeeding; women with HIV should not breast-feed because they can pass HIV through their milk to the baby

Contact your healthcare provider right away if you experience any of the following serious or common side effects:Serious side effects associated with COMPLERA: New or worse kidney problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. If you have had kidney problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do blood tests to check your kidneys during your treatment with COMPLERA Depression or mood changes can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms: feeling sad or hopeless, feeling anxious or restless, or if you have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the main part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The cause and long-term health effect of these conditions are not known Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fi ght infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine

Common side effects associated with COMPLERA: trouble sleeping (insomnia), abnormal dreams, headache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, rash, tiredness, and depression

Other side effects associated with COMPLERA: vomiting, stomach pain or discomfort, skin discoloration (small spots or freckles), and pain

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of COMPLERA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it Always take COMPLERA with a meal. Taking COMPLERA with a meal is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. A protein drink does not replace a meal Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA and see your healthcare provider regularly

Please see Patient Information for COMPLERA on the following pages.

* The co-pay program covers up to $200 per month for 1 year from card activation or until the card expires, up to $2400 in a calendar year. The program is subject to change or cancellation at any time.

Patient model. Pill shown is not actual size.

COMPLERA. A complete HIV treatment in only 1 pill a day.

Ask your healthcare provider if it’s the one for you.

You may be able to save on the co-pay for your COMPLERA prescription with a Gilead HIV Co-pay Assistance Card.

Call 1-877-505-6986 for more information or visit www.COMPLERA.com.*

Save up to

$200per month

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FDA-Approved Patient LabelingPatient InformationCOMPLERA® (kom-PLEH-rah)(emtricitabine, rilpivirine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) Tablets

Important: Ask your doctor or pharmacist about medicines that should not be taken with COMPLERA. For more information, see the section “What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?”

Read this Patient Information before you start taking COMPLERA and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment.

What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?

COMPLERA can cause serious side effects, including:1. Build-up of an acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis can happen in some people who take COMPLERA or similar (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death.

Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms which could be signs of lactic acidosis: feeling very weak or tired have unusual (not normal) muscle pain have trouble breathing have stomach pain with

- nausea (feel sick to your stomach) - vomiting feel cold, especially in your arms and legs feel dizzy or lightheaded have a fast or irregular heartbeat

2. Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems can happen in people who take COMPLERA or similar medicines. In some cases these liver problems can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis) when you take COMPLERA.

Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice). dark “tea-colored” urine light-colored bowel movements (stools) loss of appetite for several days or longer nausea stomach pain

You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking COMPLERA or a similar medicine containing nucleoside analogs for a long time.

3. Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. If you also have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and you stop taking COMPLERA, your HBV infection may become worse (flare-up). A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. COMPLERA is not approved for the treatment of HBV, so you must discuss your HBV therapy with your healthcare provider. Do not let your COMPLERA run out. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your COMPLERA is all gone. Do not stop taking COMPLERA without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking COMPLERA, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do regular blood tests to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you stop taking COMPLERA.

What is COMPLERA?COMPLERA is a prescription HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) medicine that: is used to treat HIV-1 in adults who have never taken HIV medicines before. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). contains 3 medicines, (rilpivirine, emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) combined in one tablet. EMTRIVA and VIREAD are HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus) nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and EDURANT is an HIV-1 non-nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI).

It is not known if COMPLERA is safe and effective in children under the age of 18 years.

COMPLERA may help: Reduce the amount of HIV in your blood. This is called your “viral load”. Increase the number of white blood cells called CD4+ (T) cells that help fight off other infections.

Reducing the amount of HIV and increasing the CD4+ (T) cell count may improve your immune system. This may reduce your risk of death or infections that can happen when your immune system is weak (opportunistic infections).

COMPLERA does not cure HIV infections or AIDS. Always practice safer sex. Use latex or polyurethane condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with any body fluids such as semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Never re-use or share needles.

Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about how to prevent passing HIV to other people.

Who should not take COMPLERA? Do not take COMPLERA if your HIV infection has been previously treated with HIV medicines. Do not take COMPLERA if you are taking certain other medicines. For more information about medicines that must not be taken with COMPLERA, see “What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?”

What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?

Before you take COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you: have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infection have kidney problems have ever had a mental health problem have bone problems are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child

Pregnancy Registry. There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral medicines during pregnancy. Its purpose is to collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about how you can take part in this registry. are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that mothers with HIV not breastfeed because they can pass the HIV through their milk to the baby. It is not known if COMPLERA can pass through your breast milk and harm your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

COMPLERA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how COMPLERA works, and may cause serious side effects. If you take certain medicines with COMPLERA, the amount of COMPLERA in your body may be too low and it may not work to help control your HIV infection. The HIV virus in your body may become resistant to COMPLERA or other HIV medicines that are like it.

Do not take COMPLERA if you also take these medicines: COMPLERA provides a complete treatment for HIV infection. Do not take other HIV medicines with COMPLERA. the anti-seizure medicines carbamazepine (CARBATROL®, EQUETRO®, TEGRETOL®, TEGRETOL-XR®, TERIL®, EPITOL®), oxcarbazepine (TRILEPTAL®), phenobarbital (LUMINAL®), phenytoin (DILANTIN®, DILANTIN-125®, PHENYTEK®) the anti-tuberculosis medicines rifabutin (MYCOBUTIN®), rifampin (RIFATER®, RIFAMATE®, RIMACTANE®, RIFADIN®) and rifapentine (PRIFTIN®) a proton pump inhibitor medicine for certain stomach or intestinal problems, including esomeprazole (NEXIUM®, VIMOVO®), lansoprazole (PREVACID®), omeprazole (PRILOSEC®), pantoprazole sodium (PROTONIX®), rabeprazole (ACIPHEX®) more than 1 dose of the steroid medicine dexamethasone or dexamethasone sodium phosphate St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum)

If you are taking COMPLERA, you should not take: other medicines that contain tenofovir (VIREAD®, TRUVADA®, ATRIPLA®) other medicines that contain emtricitabine or lamivudine (EMTRIVA®, COMBIVIR®, EPIVIR® or EPIVIR-HBV®, EPZICOM®, TRIZIVIR®) rilpivirine (EDURANT™) adefovir (HEPSERA®)

Also tell your healthcare provider if you take: an antacid medicine that contains aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA. a histamine-2 blocker medicine, including famotidine (PEPCID®), cimetidine (TAGAMET®), nizatidine (AXID®), or ranitidine hydrochloride (ZANTAC®). Take these medicines at least 12 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA. the antibiotic medicines clarithromycin (BIAXIN®), erythromycin (E-MYCIN®, ERYC®, ERY-TAB®, PCE®, PEDIAZOLE®, ILOSONE®), and troleandomycin (TAO®) an antifungal medicine by mouth, including fluconazole (DIFLUCAN®), itraconazole (SPORANOX®), ketoconazole (NIZORAL®), posaconazole (NOXAFIL®), voriconazole (VFEND®) methadone (DOLOPHINE®)

Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if your medicine is one that is listed above.

Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Your healthcare provider and your pharmacist can tell you if you can take these medicines with COMPLERA. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider or pharmacist. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that can interact with COMPLERA.

How should I take COMPLERA? Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA. Take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it. Always take COMPLERA with a meal. Taking COMPLERA with a meal is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. A protein drink does not replace a meal. Do not change your dose or stop taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider. See your healthcare provider regularly while taking COMPLERA. If you miss a dose of COMPLERA within 12 hours of the time you usually take it, take your dose of COMPLERA with a meal as soon as possible. Then, take your next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. If you miss a dose of COMPLERA by more than 12 hours of the time you usually take it, wait and then take the next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. Do not take more than your prescribed dose to make up for a missed dose. When your COMPLERA supply starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. It is very important not to run out of COMPLERA. The amount of virus in your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time. If you take too much COMPLERA, contact your local poison control center or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.

What are the possible side effects of COMPLERA?

COMPLERA may cause the following serious side effects, including: See “What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?” New or worse kidney problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. If you have had kidney problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do blood tests to check your kidneys during your treatment with COMPLERA. Depression or mood changes. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms:

- feeling sad or hopeless - feeling anxious or restless - have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones. Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the main part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The cause and long term health effect of these conditions are not known. Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine.

The most common side effects of COMPLERA include: trouble sleeping (insomnia) abnormal dreams headache dizziness diarrhea nausea rash tiredness depression

Additional common side effects include: vomiting stomach pain or discomfort skin discoloration (small spots or freckles) pain

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.

These are not all the possible side effects of COMPLERA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088).

How do I store COMPLERA? Store COMPLERA at room temperature 77 °F (25 °C). Keep COMPLERA in its original container and keep the container tightly closed. Do not use COMPLERA if the seal over the bottle opening is broken or missing.

Keep COMPLERA and all other medicines out of reach of children.

General information about COMPLERA:Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Patient Information leaflet. Do not use COMPLERA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give COMPLERA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them.

This leaflet summarizes the most important information about COMPLERA. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about COMPLERA that is written for health professionals. For more information, call (1-800-445-3235) or go to www.COMPLERA.com.

What are the ingredients of COMPLERA?Active ingredients: emtricitabine, rilpivirine hydrochloride, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate

Inactive ingredients: pregelatinized starch, lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, povidone, polysorbate 20. The tablet film coating contains polyethylene glycol, hypromellose, lactose monohydrate, triacetin, titanium dioxide, iron oxide red, FD&C Blue #2 aluminum lake, FD&C Yellow #6 aluminum lake.

This Patient Information has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Manufactured and distributed by:Gilead Sciences, Inc.Foster City, CA 94404

Issued: August 2011

COMPLERA, the COMPLERA Logo, EMTRIVA, HEPSERA, TRUVADA, VIREAD, GILEAD, and the GILEAD Logo are trademarks of Gilead Sciences, Inc. or its related companies. ATRIPLA is a trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences, LLC. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

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FDA-Approved Patient LabelingPatient InformationCOMPLERA® (kom-PLEH-rah)(emtricitabine, rilpivirine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) Tablets

Important: Ask your doctor or pharmacist about medicines that should not be taken with COMPLERA. For more information, see the section “What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?”

Read this Patient Information before you start taking COMPLERA and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This information does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment.

What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?

COMPLERA can cause serious side effects, including:1. Build-up of an acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis can happen in some people who take COMPLERA or similar (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death.

Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms which could be signs of lactic acidosis: feeling very weak or tired have unusual (not normal) muscle pain have trouble breathing have stomach pain with

- nausea (feel sick to your stomach) - vomiting feel cold, especially in your arms and legs feel dizzy or lightheaded have a fast or irregular heartbeat

2. Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems can happen in people who take COMPLERA or similar medicines. In some cases these liver problems can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis) when you take COMPLERA.

Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice). dark “tea-colored” urine light-colored bowel movements (stools) loss of appetite for several days or longer nausea stomach pain

You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking COMPLERA or a similar medicine containing nucleoside analogs for a long time.

3. Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. If you also have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and you stop taking COMPLERA, your HBV infection may become worse (flare-up). A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. COMPLERA is not approved for the treatment of HBV, so you must discuss your HBV therapy with your healthcare provider. Do not let your COMPLERA run out. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your COMPLERA is all gone. Do not stop taking COMPLERA without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking COMPLERA, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do regular blood tests to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you stop taking COMPLERA.

What is COMPLERA?COMPLERA is a prescription HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) medicine that: is used to treat HIV-1 in adults who have never taken HIV medicines before. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). contains 3 medicines, (rilpivirine, emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) combined in one tablet. EMTRIVA and VIREAD are HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus) nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and EDURANT is an HIV-1 non-nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI).

It is not known if COMPLERA is safe and effective in children under the age of 18 years.

COMPLERA may help: Reduce the amount of HIV in your blood. This is called your “viral load”. Increase the number of white blood cells called CD4+ (T) cells that help fight off other infections.

Reducing the amount of HIV and increasing the CD4+ (T) cell count may improve your immune system. This may reduce your risk of death or infections that can happen when your immune system is weak (opportunistic infections).

COMPLERA does not cure HIV infections or AIDS. Always practice safer sex. Use latex or polyurethane condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with any body fluids such as semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Never re-use or share needles.

Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about how to prevent passing HIV to other people.

Who should not take COMPLERA? Do not take COMPLERA if your HIV infection has been previously treated with HIV medicines. Do not take COMPLERA if you are taking certain other medicines. For more information about medicines that must not be taken with COMPLERA, see “What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?”

What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking COMPLERA?

Before you take COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you: have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infection have kidney problems have ever had a mental health problem have bone problems are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child

Pregnancy Registry. There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral medicines during pregnancy. Its purpose is to collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about how you can take part in this registry. are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that mothers with HIV not breastfeed because they can pass the HIV through their milk to the baby. It is not known if COMPLERA can pass through your breast milk and harm your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

COMPLERA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how COMPLERA works, and may cause serious side effects. If you take certain medicines with COMPLERA, the amount of COMPLERA in your body may be too low and it may not work to help control your HIV infection. The HIV virus in your body may become resistant to COMPLERA or other HIV medicines that are like it.

Do not take COMPLERA if you also take these medicines: COMPLERA provides a complete treatment for HIV infection. Do not take other HIV medicines with COMPLERA. the anti-seizure medicines carbamazepine (CARBATROL®, EQUETRO®, TEGRETOL®, TEGRETOL-XR®, TERIL®, EPITOL®), oxcarbazepine (TRILEPTAL®), phenobarbital (LUMINAL®), phenytoin (DILANTIN®, DILANTIN-125®, PHENYTEK®) the anti-tuberculosis medicines rifabutin (MYCOBUTIN®), rifampin (RIFATER®, RIFAMATE®, RIMACTANE®, RIFADIN®) and rifapentine (PRIFTIN®) a proton pump inhibitor medicine for certain stomach or intestinal problems, including esomeprazole (NEXIUM®, VIMOVO®), lansoprazole (PREVACID®), omeprazole (PRILOSEC®), pantoprazole sodium (PROTONIX®), rabeprazole (ACIPHEX®) more than 1 dose of the steroid medicine dexamethasone or dexamethasone sodium phosphate St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum)

If you are taking COMPLERA, you should not take: other medicines that contain tenofovir (VIREAD®, TRUVADA®, ATRIPLA®) other medicines that contain emtricitabine or lamivudine (EMTRIVA®, COMBIVIR®, EPIVIR® or EPIVIR-HBV®, EPZICOM®, TRIZIVIR®) rilpivirine (EDURANT™) adefovir (HEPSERA®)

Also tell your healthcare provider if you take: an antacid medicine that contains aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA. a histamine-2 blocker medicine, including famotidine (PEPCID®), cimetidine (TAGAMET®), nizatidine (AXID®), or ranitidine hydrochloride (ZANTAC®). Take these medicines at least 12 hours before or at least 4 hours after you take COMPLERA. the antibiotic medicines clarithromycin (BIAXIN®), erythromycin (E-MYCIN®, ERYC®, ERY-TAB®, PCE®, PEDIAZOLE®, ILOSONE®), and troleandomycin (TAO®) an antifungal medicine by mouth, including fluconazole (DIFLUCAN®), itraconazole (SPORANOX®), ketoconazole (NIZORAL®), posaconazole (NOXAFIL®), voriconazole (VFEND®) methadone (DOLOPHINE®)

Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if your medicine is one that is listed above.

Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Your healthcare provider and your pharmacist can tell you if you can take these medicines with COMPLERA. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider or pharmacist. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that can interact with COMPLERA.

How should I take COMPLERA? Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA. Take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it. Always take COMPLERA with a meal. Taking COMPLERA with a meal is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. A protein drink does not replace a meal. Do not change your dose or stop taking COMPLERA without first talking with your healthcare provider. See your healthcare provider regularly while taking COMPLERA. If you miss a dose of COMPLERA within 12 hours of the time you usually take it, take your dose of COMPLERA with a meal as soon as possible. Then, take your next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. If you miss a dose of COMPLERA by more than 12 hours of the time you usually take it, wait and then take the next dose of COMPLERA at the regularly scheduled time. Do not take more than your prescribed dose to make up for a missed dose. When your COMPLERA supply starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. It is very important not to run out of COMPLERA. The amount of virus in your blood may increase if the medicine is stopped for even a short time. If you take too much COMPLERA, contact your local poison control center or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.

What are the possible side effects of COMPLERA?

COMPLERA may cause the following serious side effects, including: See “What is the most important information I should know about COMPLERA?” New or worse kidney problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. If you have had kidney problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do blood tests to check your kidneys during your treatment with COMPLERA. Depression or mood changes. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms:

- feeling sad or hopeless - feeling anxious or restless - have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones. Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the main part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The cause and long term health effect of these conditions are not known. Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting your HIV medicine.

The most common side effects of COMPLERA include: trouble sleeping (insomnia) abnormal dreams headache dizziness diarrhea nausea rash tiredness depression

Additional common side effects include: vomiting stomach pain or discomfort skin discoloration (small spots or freckles) pain

Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.

These are not all the possible side effects of COMPLERA. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088).

How do I store COMPLERA? Store COMPLERA at room temperature 77 °F (25 °C). Keep COMPLERA in its original container and keep the container tightly closed. Do not use COMPLERA if the seal over the bottle opening is broken or missing.

Keep COMPLERA and all other medicines out of reach of children.

General information about COMPLERA:Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Patient Information leaflet. Do not use COMPLERA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give COMPLERA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them.

This leaflet summarizes the most important information about COMPLERA. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about COMPLERA that is written for health professionals. For more information, call (1-800-445-3235) or go to www.COMPLERA.com.

What are the ingredients of COMPLERA?Active ingredients: emtricitabine, rilpivirine hydrochloride, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate

Inactive ingredients: pregelatinized starch, lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, povidone, polysorbate 20. The tablet film coating contains polyethylene glycol, hypromellose, lactose monohydrate, triacetin, titanium dioxide, iron oxide red, FD&C Blue #2 aluminum lake, FD&C Yellow #6 aluminum lake.

This Patient Information has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Manufactured and distributed by:Gilead Sciences, Inc.Foster City, CA 94404

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Sticking stubbornly to our broken model is wrong

By STEPHEN J. FALLON, Ph.D.

Earlier this month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives vot-ed once again to repeal the Affordable Care Act. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the Act is “making our economy worse, driving up the cost of healthcare and making it harder for small business to hire workers.” He has plenty of Americans behind him in that belief. A majority of Americans want the Act re-pealed, though 82 percent support the Act’s new rule that bans insurance com-panies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Our nation has developed Care Act schizophrenia.

When the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act a couple of weeks ago, I found myself in the perfect labora-tory of national opinions, surrounded by families, businesspeople, and gay fl ight attendants all passing through Atlanta’s Hartsfi eld-Jackson airport. As CNN an-nounced the breaking news that the Su-preme Court had left the Affordable Care Act standing, passengers waiting for fl ights started speaking out:

“There goes the middle class,”

groused a guy behind me.“Now we know what we need to do—

get that guy out of offi ce,” snorted a woman sitting with her elderly mother.

“This is why our forefathers left Eng-land. It’s Socialism!” insisted a history-challenged senior.

Right now, more Americans have come around to accept gay marriage than are in favor of the Affordable Care Act. What’s behind this virulent hatred of a national healthcare program? Ignorance.

Now, I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate concerns about the ACA in its current form. We can have a good debate about the details of its roll out. But fi rst let’s put some common arguments to rest.

the world.” Not if you agree that health-care should prevent untimely deaths. The

trialized world when it comes to life ex-pectancy. The only relatively developed nations we outlive are the Czech Repub-lic, Estonia, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey. We rank dead last among highly industrialized nations. Not exactly what you would expect for the third wealthiest country in the world with the “best” healthcare.

healthcare.” We’re already paying the price tag for universal healthcare, just not

and-one-half times per person as much for healthcare as the average for all other industrialized nations. Pre-existing condi-tion exclusions blocked many Americans from getting health insurance, and high premiums still block others. So many of the 50 million uninsured Americans use the emergency room as their primary healthcare provider.

The average emergency room visit costs $1,318, or $1,565 for patients over age 45. Worse, by the time uninsured people get to the ER, their conditions are much more costly to treat. For example, we spend more than any country in the world on hospital admissions for preventable diabetes. When patients can’t pay, you and I are already pick-ing up the tab through increased insurance premiums, and increased taxes as hospitals write off their losses.

Canada, with its rationed healthcare, or socialist like France!” Agreed, we’re an innovative capitalist country. But since we’re paying more and getting less for our healthcare dollar, just saying “no” to “socialist ObamaCare” isn’t good enough. Let’s borrow a better business model from one of the industrialized na-tions that has a successful healthcare sys-tem without resorting to universal health-care. Have you got a country in mind? If

you do, you must have gone back in time, because ever since Israel changed its sys-tem in 1995, we’re the only nation in the industrialized world that does not have universal healthcare.

That’s right, it’s not just Canada and France that have universal healthcare, but also Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Cyprus, Denmark, Fin-land, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxemburg, New Zealand, the Neth-erlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzer-

per person, and all live longer, on aver-age, than we do.

Not a single American I’ve spoken to who is opposed to the Affordable Care Act knew this most basic fact.

The truth is, we can’t afford not to have universal healthcare. Among those em-ployed, medical expenses are the No. 1

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America’s health care act schizophrenia

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Within a few years, half with the disease will be 50 or older

By DANIEL TIETZ

As we convene from around the world to discuss the future of HIV prevention and treatment here in Washington, we must rec-ognize that AIDS is not confi ned to young people. Thanks to improved anti-retroviral drugs, HIV is increasingly a chronic, manage-able disease for those with access to care and treatment. The CDC has estimated that within the next few years more than half of all Americans with HIV will be age 50 or older. In New York City alone, as of 2010, more than 43 percent of people with HIV are in that age group. The face of HIV is greying, which brings with it its own set of challenges. Here are just a few of the stories of the older adults with which my organization, ACRIA, works.

Douglas says: “I’m dealing with HIV, depression, kidney cancer, high blood pressure, lipodystrophy, and now my doctor tells me my cholesterol is going up.” He acknowledges that he hasn’t al-ways dealt well with his conditions, some-times refusing to take all his drugs (num-

bering in the double digits) when he gets tired of doing so. He has yet to tell his doctor about this, and is unable to work due to the side effects of his medications.

David, an African-American man, re-mained HIV negative at age 50. But, as he says, “I could count on both hands the number of people I wanted to invite to a birthday bash,” most of his past friends and partners having succumbed to AIDS before they turned 30. He spent his 50th birthday alone at home with his god-son. Having been burned out by the loss of most of his gay peers, he has become a “reclusive, mature gay man.” He lives a life of “self-imposed isolation,” suffering from poor eating habits, strange sleep-ing hours, and incontinence. He chooses not to date because he deems explaining these issues not worth the hassle.

These are just a couple of examples — and each one illustrates a real problem. Douglas, like many older adults with HIV, has not only HIV but also a variety of other medical conditions, some of which may be more challenging now than dealing with HIV. David is HIV-negative, but he faces the same problem of isolation that many of those aging with HIV face. Many older

persons, moreover, wrongly assume that AIDS is a young person’s disease, and that their age can somehow protect them.

All of these problems have solutions, but only if health and services providers and policymakers alike work together to solve them. Primary care providers whose patients include older adults with HIV must be trained to ensure that they are prepared to help patients confront their multiple chronic illnesses, and that they adhere to a treatment regimen that will keep them in the best possible health, as diffi cult as it may be. That includes addressing depression and other men-tal health issues, which our research has found to be the most consistent predic-tor of non-adherence to HIV treatment.

It also includes helping patients to dis-cuss risky behaviors in a nonjudgmental space; if patients feel they will be subjected to harsh criticism, rather than advice, for the slightest bit of disclosure, they are less like-ly to discuss such behavior openly, render-ing it all the more diffi cult to reduce. ACRIA has created an ad campaign based on this non-moralistic approach with the slogan “Have Sex? Age is Not a Condom.” And as David’s story shows, these older adults

are more likely to become depressed when they’re isolated and lack social support networks. Without intervention, they’re unlikely to remain in good health. These adults need opportunities to socialize with their peers — and we need to endeavor to ensure they have them.

These are not the only challenges that older adults with HIV face. But these is-sues, and others, are why this week, at the International AIDS Conference in Wash-ington, D.C., ACRIA, SAGE and GMHC, together with several international part-ners, will host a satellite conference on HIV and aging, sponsored by the MAC AIDS Fund. At this conference, we will describe and address HIV and aging as a truly global issue. Scientists, health and services providers, activists, policy mak-ers, and older adults with HIV will speak, as will a panel of older adults with HIV. To-gether, we are working to create a world in which AIDS is universally recognized as a disease that people over 50 get — and in which we unite to ensure that they get the care and services they need.

The aging face of HIV

Daniel Tietz is executive director of AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. Reach him via acria.org.

Stephen Fallon is president of Skills4, a healthcare consulting fi rm that provides services to CDC and HRSA funded providers, primarily gay- or minority-based agencies and clinics. Reach him via skills4.org.


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So far, he’s silent on the disease — unlike President Bush

By JAMES DRISCOLL, Ph.D.

What can Mitt Romney do for AIDS? In a word — plenty. As we approach the XIX International AIDS Conference opening in Washington July 22, Mitt Romney has so far said nothing about AIDS. Perhaps his advisers are reluctant to touch the sub-ject. They shouldn’t be. George W. Bush learned early that AIDS holds opportuni-ties for conservative activism; he then built the best AIDS record of any president.

The Bush record provides a fi ne ex-ample and starting place for Mitt Rom-ney. Bush cleared regulatory hurdles to rapid HIV testing and reformed federal AIDS care programs. He launched PEP-FAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS, which has become the most suc-cessful foreign aide initiative since the Marshall Plan. Bringing AIDS drug treat-ment to millions in Asia and Africa, PEP-FAR has saved countless lives and earned America worldwide respect and good will.

However, many more lives can now be

saved by improved use of PEPFAR resourc-es. As president, Romney could focus the program more on antiretroviral drug treat-ment and less on administration. Program effi ciencies, boosted by falling drug costs, could allow PEPFAR to treat many more patients with current funding.

Tariffs and taxes on medical products re-main serious obstacles to combating AIDS and other killers throughout the developing world. More than 30 countries, including the U.S., have abolished tariffs on medical products. Nonetheless, in too many trade negotiations, medical products still have the same priority as balloons, boom boxes and rum. Everything is a trading chip, regardless of whether it is trifl ing or essential to human health. This must change.

Countries like India, China and Thai-land, with chronic trade surpluses and large HIV epidemics, continue to im-pose trade barriers on medications for AIDS and other life-threatening diseas-es. Elimination of all taxes worldwide on vital medical products would be a great boon to world health. At the same time it would help reduce dangerous trade im-balances between the West and Asia, an important priority for the next president.

PEPFAR gave President Bush a chance to pursue a lofty international goal. Presi-dent Romney will have a unique opportu-nity to advance America’s domestic AIDS goals. Last year NIH’s 052 study, cited by Science as the top advance of 2011, proved that anti-retroviral treatment is 96 percent effective in preventing infection of HIV negative partners. We now know that widespread HIV testing and treat-ment can prevent the spread of AIDS.

However, more than 20 percent of HIV positives in America do not know their status. We must get them tested and into treatment. President Obama formulated a viable National AIDS Strategy, but he has neglected the hardest part, imple-mentation. As a result, the AIDS virus continues to spread rapidly among many groups, especially gay men, Latinos and African-American women.

President Romney would need to re-prioritize AIDS funding in order to fi nd sav-ings and effi ciencies to pay for more testing, linkage to care and AIDS drug treatment for many additional HIV patients. He can, there-by, reduce the rate of new infections and at last turn the tide against AIDS in America.

Keeping down AIDS regimen costs

is essential to HIV treatment expansion given a troubled global economy and soaring defi cits in every developed coun-try. We must recognize that nearly all AIDS patients are poor people whose treatment hinges on some form of taxpayer funding. There is no true free market in AIDS drugs.

Presidential leadership will be crucial to negotiating agreements with pharmaceu-tical companies that allow us to treat many more HIV-positive Americans with current funding. The global AIDS drug market is $22 billion. A share of a market that size is a powerful incentive to continue develop-ment of new HIV drugs, though additional inducements would be helpful.

The next president needs to create ef-fective tax, IP and regulatory avenues to speed private sector research on cures and better treatments for the big killers with the heaviest impact on healthcare budgets, like Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes, and HIV-AIDS.

What can Mitt Romney do for HIV/AIDS?

James Driscoll, Ph.D., is a longtime AIDS activist and was a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under President George W. Bush.




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The International AIDS Conference in Washington offers an opportunity to look back at how artists have responded to the disease. Since the very fi rst days of the crisis, artists of all kinds have actively responded, both in their artistic works and as fundraisers and activists.

THE NAMES PROJECTAIDS MEMORIAL QUILT

The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, on display throughout the city through the month of July, is the largest community art project in the world. More than 48,000 panels have been created by lovers, family members and friends to memorialize those who have died of AIDS. The Quilt has redefi ned the traditional folk-art of quilt-making into a modern art form that serves as a memorial, a tool for education, a work of art and a call to arms. Each of the panels has been photographically preserved in the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive. About 14 million around the world have seen panels from the Quilt.

The Quilt has its root in a powerful piece of political theater. While preparing for the annual candlelight march honoring Harvey

Milk and George Moscone in 1985, San Francisco activist Cleve Jones was shocked to learn that more than 1,000 people in the city had already died of AIDS. He asked his friends to bring placards with the names of the dead to the march. After the march, the activists taped the placards to the side of the San Francisco Federal Building and realized that the signs now looked like a patchwork quilt. Inspired by the sight, Jones and his friends made plans for a larger memorial and in 1986 Jones created the fi rst quilt panel in honor of his friend Marvin Feldman.

THE ART OF ACTIVISM

One of the remarkable features of the fi ght against AIDS has been the ability to use visual art to generate a powerful public response. This was especially true for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), an international direct action advocacy group that worked to impact the lives of people with AIDS. Founded in New York City in 1987, the leaderless anarchist network effectively combined powerful direct action protests with provocative visual images to effectively generate media attention for their cause.

Veteran media activist Cathy Renna,

who describes herself as “coming out and coming of age” when ACT UP was forming, says the global impact of the group came from its ability to use visual art to drive home a message.

“They had people like Ann Northrup and Larry Kramer who understood the media really well and who understood the power of images,” Renna says. “They created iconic images that demanded the attention of the media and became embedded in the minds of people.”

Renna notes that the members of ACT UP really showed the power of visual art to move people and the power of creativity and humor to reach people.

“Not everyone agreed with their tactics, but at the end of the day none of us can argue with the indelible impact they had on the public perception of AIDS and the entire LGBT movement,” she says.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

For centuries, there’s been a debate about how well classical music can respond to specifi c cultural events. Gay composer John Corigliano leapt into this fray when he wrote his Symphony No. 1 in 1991 as a response to the AIDS epidemic.

“During the past decade I have lost many friends and colleagues to the AIDS epidemic, Corigliano writes in his notes to the fi rst recording of the symphony. “My First Symphony was generated by feelings of loss, anger and frustration.”

Corigliano, best known for his opera “The Ghost of Versailles” and his Oscar-winning score for “The Red Violin,” says that the form of his AIDS symphony was inspired by a viewing of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

“A few years ago I was extremely moved when I fi rst saw ‘The Quilt,’ an ambitious interweaving of several thousand fabric panels, each memorializing a person who had died of AIDS, and most importantly, each designed and constructed by his or her loved ones,” he wrote. “This made me want to memorialize in music those I have lost, and refl ect on those I am losing.”

THEATER

Perhaps no other artistic medium has been as responsive to the AIDS crisis as theater. From ground-breaking pieces like Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” (an

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FROM THE QUILT TO HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY, POP CULTURE HELPED US MAKE SENSE OF GRIEF, LOSS

By JOEY [email protected]

Wayne Turner remembers crying on the fi rst day of school — although it was law school at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law and it was his 40th birthday that day in 2005.

“The founding professor, Edgar Cahn, was there telling us in this big orientation that their mission was to take bad-ass activists and unleash them on the world,” Turner says. “He said, ‘You’re not just here alone, you’re on the shoulders of everyone who’s come through here before.’ It was about seven years since my partner had died and I thought, ‘Yes, I have found my home.’ The tears just started streaming down my face so there I was, crying on the fi rst day of school.”

Turner and his late partner, Steve Michael, who died of AIDS at age 42 in 1998 (Turner took Michael’s body to the White House as a gesture of protest), had what Turner calls a “roller coaster” seven-year relationship in which they dedicated themselves solely to activism and lived “a very hand-to-mouth existence. We were always changing residences, changing phone numbers. We lived a very mission-focused life and it was just like, ‘We gotta do this stuff.’ It was an issue nobody wanted to deal with.” Turner, who remains HIV-negative, was a founding member of the AIDS advocacy and protest group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).

Turner, a Culver City, Calif., native, went to college in Portland, spent time in Europe, then lived in Seattle for about fi ve years where he met Michael. They moved to Washington in 1993 with the express goal of “keeping Bill Clinton accountable” for his AIDS-related campaign promises.

Turner says going to law school — he earned full scholarships and graduated with honors — was perfect for him.

“I think of it as activism on steroids,” he says. “You gain so much clarity of how things work and how things are supposed to work. I highly recommend it to anyone who is active and involved. It’s like opening up a clock and saying, ‘Oh, that’s how that works.’”

Turner says he now has “his dream job” as a staff attorney at the National Health Law Program focusing on health care quality and access for low-income and disabled individuals enrolled in Medicaid.

He’s single, lives on the H Street corridor in Northeast Washington and enjoys camping and hiking with his dog, Mister, in and around Shenandoah National Park.

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QUEERY: 20 QUESTIONS FOR WAYNE TURNER

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT AND WHO WAS THE HARDEST PERSON TO TELL?

After the fi rst year of college, my high school friend Robert and I came out to each other. We were just stating what was plainly obvious to each of us (and

everyone else), but we had never talked about it before.

WHO’S YOUR LGBT HERO?My late partner Steve and the other

amazing frontline AIDS activists, living and dead, who struggle and sacrifi ce so

that others might live.

WHAT’S WASHINGTON’S BEST NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR PRESENT?

Otter Crossing at the DC Eagle.

DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING.One where DOMA has been

overturned by the Supreme Court so that same-sex marriages are legally

recognized by the federal government and in all 50 states.

WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE YOU MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?

Single payer health care. It means getting better care for less money from

cradle to grave — what’s not to like about that?

WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME WOULD YOU CHANGE?

I wish Mario Cuomo went to New Hampshire in 1992. He would have

won the primary, won the Democratic nomination and won the White House.

We wouldn’t have had the disaster known as the Clinton administration

with DOMA, DADT and the HIV immigration ban and travel restrictions. We might even have seen a Manhattan

Project for AIDS, and could very well have a cure by now.

WHAT’S BEEN THE MOST MEMORABLE POP CULTURE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?

Probably when Tinky Winky came out. I mean, we all knew, what with that red

purse and all.

ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?Punctuality

WHAT WAS YOUR LAST FACEBOOK POST OR TWEET?

“YES WE CAN!” celebrating the Supreme Court decision upholding

Obamacare. It is a huge victory, particularly for people with HIV who can

qualify for Medicaid without having to wait for an AIDS diagnosis, and can’t be

denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT WOULD THE TITLE BE?

“Fasten your seatbelts,” because it has been one bumpy ride.

IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Find Ben Cohen.

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND THE PHYSICAL WORLD?

There’s something besides the physical world? I’ll believe it when I see

it.

WHAT’S YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT MOVEMENT LEADERS?

Too many so-called leaders seem to mistake photo-ops and

cocktail party receptions for actual accomplishments. On-the-ground activists are providing the real leadership. Look at marriage

equality — activists in Massachusetts propelled that issue forward in 2001

with Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health. The national groups have been playing catch up ever since.

WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS HOT COALS FOR?

Nothing. I have nice feet.

WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS YOU MOST?

Victimhood. It perpetuates the perception that we are weak. Pity is no substitute for demanding respect and

dignity.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE LGBT MOVIE?

“Carrie,” the original with Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. It shows us

that the best way to deal with high school bullies is to turn a fire hose

on them.

WHAT’S THE MOST OVERRATED SOCIAL CUSTOM?

Saying “bless you” when someone sneezes. (See “physical world”

response above).

WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU MOST COVET?

Raphael Nadal.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D KNOWN AT 18?

That Apple stock would have been a really good idea.

WHY WASHINGTON?Sometimes at night I walk the

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and the Mall and the monuments and the glistening city lights, and I think “this view, at this moment

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Creaky ‘Addams Family’ adaptation lacks wit, charm

By PATRICK FOLLIARD

“The Addams Family,” the musical comedy take on Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoon (now playing at the Kennedy Center), begins rather well.

Thing, the unforgettable disembodied hand, pulls back a vermilion curtain to reveal a misty cemetery at midnight. The whole ghoulish gang is on hand — Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Grandma, Uncle Fester and towering, taciturn Lurch — to sing “When You’re an Addams.” Backing the familiar faces is an exuberant chorus of dancing Addams ancestors who’ve emerged from their mausoleum for the evening. The pallid apparitions include a neatly dressed young woman still wearing the life vest that didn’t save her from an untimely demise.

But then the number ends and the story begins.

Penned by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, the disappointingly slim plot involves a romance between Wednesday and a nice boy. Things go awry when the young man’s “normal” parents visit from bland Ohio (in the musical, the Addams’ baronial pile is located in Central Park) to meet Wednesday and her oddball family. Further complicating matters is Gomez’s agreement to keep Wednesday’s imminent nuptials a secret from his controlling wife Morticia.

The plot is a familiar one. Young person attempts to hide oddball family’s eccentricities from prospective, buttoned-up in-laws. It’s been done to death and usually with better results: Think “La Cage aux Folles” and “You Can’t Take It with You” for starters.

To accommodate the love story, Wednesday’s age has been upped changing her from solemn pre-teen to strident young adult. Sadly, her iconic black braids have been replaced with a boring bob.

The score by Andrew Lippa (who’s gay)

is mostly underwhelming. Exceptions include “The Moon and Me,” a second act love song sung by Uncle Fester (Blake Hammond) and “Just Around the Corner,” an upbeat ode to death sung by Morticia and the ancestors.

The fabulously whimsical puppetry of Basil Twist is evident mostly in Fester’s moon song. Twist (also gay) designed a scary dragon that lives beneath Pugsley’s bed, and Cousin Itt’s love interest is a coquettish anthropomorphized tassel cut from the stage curtain.

Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch are credited with original direction, spot-on costumes and an appropriately creepy, Halloweenish set. Broadway director Jerry Zaks supervises the entire production.

As Gomez, talented Douglas Sills is well cast and charming, but even he can’t elevate the mediocre material. And while Sara Gettelfi nger is a terrifi c singer, her oafi sh Morticia lacks elegance — absent are the macabre femme fatale’s famed mincing steps and graceful gestures. Not that it matters. Gettelfi nger’s navel-cut neckline entirely upstages her performance anyway.

“The Addams Family” musical premiered on Broadway in 2010. It’s the latest addition to an Addams franchise that began with the New Yorker cartoon and went more middlebrow with the popular ‘60s sitcom and two successful ‘90s feature fi lms. The national tour production currently at the Kennedy Center is a reworked version of the Broadway version.

Regrettably, the musical has none of the fun, wit or style of other Addams entertainments. Too bad, because of all the many TV-to-big screen franchises, “The Addams Family” with its distinct atmosphere and strong characters seemed particularly poised to be successfully mined for musical theater. Unfortunately it didn’t happen.

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Trilogy fi nale of Batman reboot confl icted, intensely satisfyingBy WILL OWEN

Director Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” leaves you emotionally drained, exhausted and in a daze when the fi lm ends. Nolan, who co-wrote with his brother Jonathan, expertly toys with current widespread fears of a pending apocalypse and squeamishness over talk of waning American hegemony in this spectacular fi nale to his Batman trilogy.

“The Dark Knight Rises” has a brooding, moody beginning set eight years after “The Dark Knight.” Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is out of the public eye and withdrawn from society and Batman is a faded memory. Gotham still mourns the loss of District Attorney Harvey Dent when Bane (Tom Hardy) interrupts any refl ection on the past by reintroducing newfound terror to the city.

Hardy delivers an exceptional performance as Bane, especially considering he’s the follow-up villain to Heath Ledger’s brilliantly disturbing (and Oscar winning) interpretation of the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” Bane is a hulking mass of muscle with a militaristic breathing device surgically attached to his face, which mechanically provides his voice a diabolical intonation while alleviating the agony of a past facial disfi gurement.

Bane at fi rst appears like another greedy aggressor after the Wayne Enterprises empire, with the help of a corrupt board member of the company and a master thief in cat ears, Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway). The extent of his desire to destroy is revealed by his master plan involving the nuclear reactor of Wayne’s clean energy initiative.

Bruce ditches his unkempt hermit look and squeezes back into the bat suit, but in doing so, is forced to confront the personal struggles that have been with him since the trilogy’s start in “Batman Begins.” Although butler Alfred (Michael Caine) refuses to watch Batman meet his death in another mission to save Gotham, Bruce fi nds help from faithful weapons expert Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), policeman and fellow orphan John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and the new CEO of Wayne Enterprises, Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard).

Even the cunning and calculating Catwoman comes around. From her fi rst appearance in disguise as an obedient maid who steals Bruce’s mother’s pearls, Hathaway

has as much charisma as the two actresses who played Rachel Dawes in the prior two Batman fi lms combined. In their defense, the character Selina Kyle lends itself to far more dynamism and energy — let alone ass kicking — than Bruce’s past love interest.

Hathaway looks sexy and sinewy in her cat suit, but her character is not the objectifi ed acknowledgement that gender roles are changing seen in most action fi lms. She is funny, hardened and resourceful, and just as much a savior to Batman as he is to her.

Christian Bale delivers another excellent performance as Bruce Wayne that heavily draws on the previous two fi lms. Bruce struggles with his inner demons that were intensely developed in “Batman Begins.” “Rises” is full of allusions to the death of his parents and even his childhood fear of bats resurfaces at a pivotal life-or-death moment. The death of Rachel Dawes and the destruction caused by the Joker in “The Dark Knight” hang over Bruce and he initially struggles with either resigning to his role as apathetic, entitled playboy or anonymous keeper of justice.

What’s so striking about Bale as Batman and Christopher Nolan’s directing of the franchise is that the hero’s humanity is constantly reiterated. Wayne’s often battered body, sad eyes and initial withdrawal from Gotham society make him much more complex than most heroes of his genre. Nolan seems to understand that in today’s world, trust in a perfect savior is passé.

“The Dark Knight Rises” continuously blurs divisions between good and evil, with even the brutal Bane showing a glimmer of humanity in the end. Nolan challenges our trust in the institutions we depend on through police ineptitude, corporate corruption and a horrifying sequence of explosions right after the singing of the National Anthem at a Gotham “Rogues” football game. At one point when the situation is beyond dire, an anonymous white male president offers empty, fl agrantly rehearsed words of hope to the city.

Like most self-serious, epic fi lms these days, “The Dark Knight Rises” is too long (2 hours, 40 minutes), but the plot is easy to follow and doesn’t drag. The special effects, action scenes and all of Batman’s toys also keep the proceedings engaging throughout.

Much of the fi lm’s middle section is full of hopelessness and dread. The ending is heart-wrenching and visually stunning, but that’s not to say it isn’t bittersweet. That it’s an emotional mixed bag is part of what makes it such a satisfying conclusion to the franchise.

‘Dark Knight’ of the soulThe cast of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ led by Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader.

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Avoid the urge to rely on messages to communicate in a new relationship

By MEGHANN NOVINSKIE &KIM ROSENBERG

We were interviewed last week on a popular radio show in Los Angeles and one of the topics discussed was how technology has changed dating in the modern world.

This is an issue we see often with our clients in that some singles hide behind their computer screens or smartphones when unsure of how to pursue a new relationship effectively. Navigating the dating rules in this day and age can be confusing, so we hope to shed light on the topic and help others understand when and how technology can ruin the dating game.

Clients and other singles misuse texting as a way of effective communication. Texting is easy and can be done on the go, between meetings or while ordering a coffee. It seems this would be a great way to reply to someone you are dating because of how effi cient it is, but it’s actually a terrible way to communicate, for a number of reasons.

Text messages can so easily be misunderstood and daters could potentially spend hours analyzing one text that could have multiple meanings. Tone is so important when communicating and this simply cannot be expressed over text message. As we all know, great communication is the key to a successful relationship, so why rely on your message getting misunderstood by texting? This, unfortunately, is the way many singles tell their mates they’re not interested, by being passive aggressive and saying they “didn’t get your text” and letting the new relationship slip off to the side.

Breaking up over text message makes one look as if (s)he didn’t care enough about the other person to even give the

courtesy of picking up the phone to say that the relationship isn’t working. It’s immature. Texting can be used in dating when confi rming a place/time to meet or to confi rm a time to speak on the phone and that’s pretty much it. Don’t forget the old fashioned way of dating — pick up the phone and ask someone out, see how their day is, plan a date together. Engaging in conversation builds a bond, so don’t cop out and text your way through your new relationship.

The success of online dating sites has had a huge infl uence on how singles navigate new relationships. Dating online can be great for many — anyone can set up a profi le, peruse the site for matches and have a date within days (or hours, with some websites or smartphone applications). This is an effi cient way for someone to get out there who hasn’t dated in a long time — going on a lot of online dates can be great practice and help those new to dating get their feet wet. But a huge problem exists, besides of the lack of second dates many people experience when dating online.

People often hide behind their profi les, literally and fi guratively. Some profi les online are just that — online only to engage others over email or just so they can view other singles on the site. Others set up profi les that aren’t fully true, whether they upload a 10-year-old photo or unfortunately brag about what they have to offer a partner (which could also be totally false). Some set up profi les that describe how they perceive themselves and it’s not who they really are at their core.

It’s easy to hide behind your computer, however those truly interested in dating and fi nding a long-term relationship suffer from the lack of accountability of many online daters. Another issue with dating online is that “the grass is always greener” syndrome is extremely prevalent in the minds of online daters and it’s hard to tell who is really relationship ready. How to avoid this? Consider getting yourself out there in the community to date, join new groups or work with a dating coach. Dating online can be successful for many, but be weary of who is actually lurking behind the screen.

Remember, get back to basics. Dating is much easier when there is more face-to-face interaction. Call, don’t text. Engage your date, don’t Google her/him. Don’t let technology block you from establishing a lasting connection.

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Rising star Sebastian Stan brings depth to gay role on Sigourney Weaver-helmed political family series

By PHIL [email protected]

Being the fi rst openly gay child of the “First Family,” would be pressure enough, but “Political Animals’” T.J. Hammond still can’t fi nd peace now that his mother is the Secretary of State, and divorcing his father, the former President of the United States.

“I don’t know this personally, but one of the things I’ve tried to research is the idea of how do you exist in the world as an individual when your parents’ persona is constantly an umbrella over your identity,” says Sebastian Stan, who plays T.J. in the new USA network political drama which premiered this week about a former First Family coping with change in the years after the White House (It airs Sunday nights at 10).

While many young LGBT people T.J.’s age face pressure and depression, and may experiment with drugs and alcohol like the character, most don’t do so under the microscope of the media, with a mother — former First Lady Elaine Barrish played by Sigourney Weaver, whom Stan calls a “sweet soul” — in the cabinet of the incoming President.

T.J. copes with the pressure by acting out and pushing the envelope, much like another set of fi rst kids, the Bush twins, whom Stan says T.J. may be able to relate to.

“Its like someone handing you the same plate of breakfast every day,” Stan tells the Blade, saying he doesn’t know personally what it would be like to be under such a microscope, but has tried to research extensively this complicated character. “’Well this is now my life, and this is what I gotta do.’ And you get bored. Its like, ‘Why? I want more? I want something else. I don’t want to be pigeonholed.’ And I think that maybe ... you want to branch out, you want to be different, you want to do your thing, you don’t want to constantly have to live in the shadow of

your parents, which is unfortunately what these characters are living under.”

Stan says that the show from acclaimed producers Greg Berlanti and Laurence Mark, which also stars Ellen Burstyn and James Wolk who plays T.J.’s twin brother, attempts to pull back a curtain on the private lives of these very public people.

“When these people go home, and they sit down at dinner, what do they talk about?” Stan says. “How are they with themselves?”

The character differs greatly from another gay character he played in a political family on NBC’s “Kings,” because, while the young prince Jack Benjamin was strong-willed, driven and knew what he wants, T.J., Stan says, is much more fragile and lost and feels that he’s been pigeonholed in a way that does not fi t him, and he’s searching for escape.

“Someone says to you, ‘Guess what? You’re going to live in this box.’ And how do you deal with that?” Stan says, saying T.J. and his straight twin Douglass deal with the pressure in vastly different ways. “T.J. deals with it by numbing, as an alcoholic and a drug addict.”

Though T.J. has strong allies in the family like his grandmother Margaret, played by Burstyn, and his powerful mother, unlike the “Kings” character, T.J. has little control over his life, and Stan, who’s straight, wonders what the young son raised in the spotlight might do with the freedom that a life of anonymity might lend.

“Ultimately he’s just a character that’s trying to fi nd himself and trying to be heard that’s desperately wanting to be loved … Does he have a choice, and if he had a choice, what would he do with it.”

Stan says working with veteran actress Sigourney Weaver is “phenomenal,” and that he’s grateful to share a set with the “Alien” star.

“She’s an incredibly generous person, as well as an actress,” he says. “A powerhouse … The level of etiquette and discipline and commanding the set that she brought on was absolutely awesome. Made everyone feel very special … You always knew when she was going to walk in. You felt her presence.”

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T.J. HAMMOND, played by Sebastian Stan, raises a glass to his family of ‘Political Animals’ in the new USA Network series.

PHOTO COURTESY USA NETWORK

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SAT, JUL 21You, Me, Them, Everybody Present: This Is A Game Show, Artisphere.703-875-1100. artisphere.com.

MON, JUL 23Jackson Browne, Wolf Trap. 1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.

WED, JUL 25Free Summer Outdoor Concert: Lyndsey Highlander, Strathmore.301-581-5100. strathmore.org.

ONGOING STAGE

The Addams Family, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600 kennedy-center.org.The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.The Charlie Visconage Show, DC Arts Center. 202-462-7822. dcartscenter.org.Mein Kampf by George Tabori, SCENA Theatre, H Street Playhouse.703-683-2824. ScenaTheater.org.

I Confess, WIT, Source Theatre. 202-204-7770. washingtonimprovtheater.com.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

National Geographic. Beyond the Story: NG Unpublished 2011, Titanic: 100 Year Obsession. 202-857-7588. ngmuseum.org.Corcoran Gallery of Art. Free Summer Saturdays at the Corcoran, Richard Diebenkorn: TheOcean Park Series. 202-639-1700.corcoran.org.Kreeger Museum. Special Exhibition: Joan Miró From the Collection of The Kreeger Museum. 202-338-3552. kreegermuseum.org.National Gallery of Art. Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, George Bellows, Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. 202-737-4215.nga.gov.Museum of Women in the Arts. Royalists to Romantics, Mamacita Linda: Letters Between Frida Kahlo and her Mother, Women Silversmiths from the NMWA Collection. 202-783-5000.nmwa.org.

ONGOING GALLERIES

Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery. Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. 202-518-9400. washingtondcjcc.org.Artisphere. Robin Bell: Projections For Televisions. 703-875-1100.artisphere.com.Goethe-Institut. Daniel Libeskind: Architecture for the Angel of History. 202-289-1200. goethe.de.Joan Hisoka Gallery. Messages from Outsiderdom. 202-483-8600. smithcenter.org.Strathmore. Inform/Reform.301-581-5100. strathmore.org.The Art League. Cecily Corcoran’s “Genius Loci”. 703-683-1780. theartleague.org.Washington Printmakers Gallery. Fragments, Three Figurative Printmakers. 301-273-3660. washingtonprintmakers.com.

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Still, you don’t see many city slickers driving a Ford F-150, the best-selling vehicle in America,here in the District, where bike lanes out-number parking garages.

But a new crop of compact coupes are nimble enough to handle narrow streets, yet have decent cargo room in the rear (or at least clever stowage compartments up front).

There’s also the ogle factor, because coupe styling, especially on the three cars below, is always edgier than what you’ll fi nd on a sedan or other vehicle.

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For years, MINI has been bulking up its lineup. First there was the longish Clubman wagon, then the husky Countryman SUV. But now MINI is on a diet, with a cute lilliputian Coupe. It’s barely bigger than a Smart car or Segway. And whoa!, there’s not even a backseat, though cargo space is larger than in a regular Cooper hatchback. Available in three models, the test car I drove was the top-of-the-line John Cooper Works (JCW) Edition. A throaty 208-horsepower turbo takes this Coupe from 0 to 60 mph in just 6.3 seconds. Navigating around potholes and slowpoke sightseers is a breeze, thanks to the BMW-engineered braking and suspension. For even better handling, a rear spoiler pops up at high speeds. There’s plenty of headroom, too, thanks to the bubble roof. But this isn’t a cushy ride (translation: your keister gets a real workout).

Volvo C30$25,000Mpg: 21 city/29 highwayMaximum cargo space: 20 cubit feet

The Volvo C30 shares many of the same features as the MINI Coupe, including brisk acceleration, look-at-me styling and stellar crash-test scores. But there are plenty of differences, such as a quieter cabin, stellar blind-spot warning system and rear-seat passenger room. There’s also an all-glass hatch which, along with the optional sunroof, makes the C30 feel very roomy. And it’s hard to beat Volvo’s cascading, brushed-aluminum center dash, which is a true work of art. To me, the overall look and feel (both inside and out) is just more refi ned on the Volvo, though the MINI has better brakes, fuel economy and road grip.

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By KEVIN MAJOROS

All the local LGBT sports teams that are in action during the summer months have been executing their schedules despite the oppressive heat. Here are a few options for those of you wishing to beat the heat.

The Capital Area Rainbowlers Association (CARA) is hosting a Summer Social Bowling Night to be held Aug. 6 from 8 to 10 p.m. This year’s event will be held at three different venues:

Washington — Lucky Strike at Gallery Place, 701 7th Street NW (on the Metro red, green and yellow lines). Six lanes are reserved and you must be 21 years old. The price is $15 all you can bowl and includes shoe rental.

Maryland — AMF College Park Lanes, 9021 Baltimore Blvd. Four to six lanes are reserved. The price is $1 per game and the shoe rental is $2.50.

Virginia — AMF Annandale Lanes,

4245 Markham Street. Eight-10 lanes are reserved. The price is $1 per game and the shoe rental is $2.50.

You may RSVP at surveymonkey.com/s/carasummer2012. CARA can be found at carabowling.org.

The Rainbow Spinnakers Sailing Club (RSSC) is setting sail on weekends and some weeknights from the Baltimore shores and waters just outside of D.C./Alexandria. You can sign on to be a skipper or just sail along as a passenger. Details are at rainbowspinnakers.org.

The Capital Splats Racquetball League offers all levels of competition for men and women as well as recreational play, group meet-ups and skills training clinics. Information is at capitalsplats.org.

Rainbow Climbing D.C. organizes indoor and outdoor climbs for all levels of climbers. They can be found weekly at Earth Treks in Rockville or Sportrock in Alexandria. The climbing schedule rotates and upcoming dates can be found on their Facebook page under Rainbow Climbing D.C.

It’s not too late to get in on the beginner square dancing classes being offered by the D.C. Lambda Squares. The square dancing club is open to singles and no prior experience is necessary. To register

and learn more about the club, go to dclambdasquares.org.

The Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association is hosting its monthly horseback ride at Piscataway Stables in Clinton, Md., on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. The cost is $25 per rider for an hour-long ride. Experienced and novice riders are welcome. Email Patrick at [email protected] or check out their website at asgra.org.

Men’s Naked Yoga is being held at the Vitruvian Gallery at 734 7th Street S.E. (second fl oor) every Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The class is conducted with Hatha style poses for stretching and strengthening in a gentle Vinyasa fl ow. The cost is $18 per session and all levels of yoga students are welcome. More information is at vitruviangallery.com/yoga.

The D.C. Icebreakers’ next regular skating night is Aug. 15 (and the third Wednesday of every month) at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington from 8 to 9 p.m. A group social will follow the skate time at a local watering hole. Their site is at dcicebreakers.com.

And what would we do without Nellie’s Sports Bar, which continues to support the LGBT sports clubs in numerous ways, including sponsoring happy hours as follows.

Every Thursday is Stonewall Bocce Night beginning at 6:30 p.m.Every Second Tuesday is Southern Universities Alumni Night from 5-8 p.mEvery First Thursday is Log CabinNight from 6:30-8:30 p.m.Every Second Thursday is Washington Wetskins Night from 5-8 p.m.Every Third Friday is Lambda Divers (Scuba) Happy Hour from 5-7 p.m.Every Fourth Tuesday is Ping Pong Madness Night beginning at 7:30 p.m.Every Fourth Wednesday is HRC Happy Hour Night beginning at 5 p.m.Every Fourth Thursday is Homoto Night for LGBT Motorcycle fans beginning at 6 p.m.Every Fourth Thursday is Capital Splats Racquetball Club Happy Hour from 5-8 p.m.Every Thursday is Active Duty Night beginning at 8 p.m. $2 from every Nellie’s Beer supports Servicemembers United.

Congratulations to the D.C. Flag Football League for sending three teams to the Chicago Pride Bowl last month. All three of the teams placed in the A Bracket fi nishing third, seventh and 11th. The league is at dcgffl .org.

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E-mail calendar items to [email protected] two weeks prior to your event. Space is limited so priority is given to LGBT-specifi c events or those with LGBT participants. Recurring events must be re-submitted each time.

TODAYThe HIV Working Group is doing

outreach tonight at Town’s (2009 8th St., N.W.) Bear Happy Hour. It begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are $5. For more information, visit towndc.com or thedccenter.org.

Burgundy Crescent, a gay volunteer organization, needs volunteers today through July 25 to help with the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall. To participate, visit burgundycrescent.org.

Whitman-Walker Health is having HIV Testing at Arena Stage (1101 Sixth St., S.W.) tonight at 5:30 p.m. For details, visit whitman-walker.org.

Touchstone Gallery (901 New York Ave., N.W.) is hosting two exhibits, “3D Collage the Adventure” by David Alfuth and “Being Affected” by Charles St. Charles until July 29. Alfuth’s artwork features are surreal 3-D collages consisting of newspapers, cloth, pressed fl owers and other fl at objects. St. Charles’ exhibition portrays faces with various reactions to shared circumstances. The exhibit is free. For more information, visit touchstonegallery.com.

Phase 1 (525 8th St. SE) is hosting its “Red, White & Boobs with D.C. Gurly Show” starting at 7:30 p.m. This event

will have a special guest, Miss Flora Bush. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit phase1dc.com.

Waverly Street Gallery (4600 East-West Highway, Bethesday) is hosting the exhibition “Heard it Through the Grapevine,” paintings and collage by Ronnie Spiewak today from noon to 6 p.m. Access to the exhibition is free. For more information, visit waverlystreetgallery.com.

The Bachelor’s Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.) is having its happy hour today starting at 5 p.m. All drinks are half off until 7:30 p.m. After 9 p.m., admission is $15, and after 11 p.m. admission is $3. The party includes a pool, video gaming system and card tournaments. For details, visit thebachelorsmill.com.

Green Lantern (1111 14th St., Green Court, N.W.) is hosting its “Pop Goes the World” party tonight at 10 p.m. Cover charge is $5. For more information, visit greenlanterndc.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 21A reception will be held tonight at 6

for artists John Gascot’s and MG Stout’s art exhibit at the D.C. Center (1318 U St. NW). Wine and refreshments will be served. Many or the paintings are inspired by or named after songs. The exhibit will be up through Sept. 8 and attendees can visit for free during the D.C. Center business hours. For more information, visit

thedccenter.org.Spunk-E Productions presents “Ink &

Scruff” at Green Lantern (1111 14th St., Green Court, N.W.) tonight at 10 p.m. There’s a hot body contest, drink specials all night and music by DJ Tone. Cover is $5. For details, visit greenlanterndc.com.

Tilted Torch’s “Wild Night: A Burlesque Adventure” is at the Warehouse Theater (645 New York Ave. N.W.) tonight at midnight. This burlesque show allows audience members decide what happens in the story. The decisions will lead to consequences, danger and even death. General admission is $17. For more information, visit warehousetheater.com.

The Black Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) tonight is hosting “Right Round,” its ‘80s alternative-pop dance night with DJ Lil’e. Tickets are $7 and doors open at 9:30. For more information, visit blackcatdc.com.

Town Danceboutique (2009 8th St., N.W.) is hosting an AIDS 2012 Conference Party tonight at 10 p.m. The party is to bring men together to kick off the conference weekend. The music is by DJ Chord. Cover is $8 before 11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m. There are $3 drinks before 11 p.m. A drag show starts at 10:30 p.m. For more information, visit towndc.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 22Youth Score 2012 is hosting “Uniting

an AIDS-Free Generation” today at the

Bell Multicultural High School (3101 16th St., N.W.) from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. This basketball and soccer tournament will feature games are for ages 13-24 with great prizes for participants. The event is free. For details, visit facebook.com/YouthScore2012.

The Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.) is hosting the seven arts-related panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in its South Gallery. The show is free and will be up until July 27. The gallery is open daily between 10 a.m.-10 p.m. For more information, visit kennedy-center.org.

MONDAY, JULY 23Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) is hosting its

Martini Monday tonight at 10 p.m. There is no cover charge and martinis are $5. For more information, visit cobaltdc.com.

The Bachelor’s Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.) is offering half-price drinks all night long. A free pool and NFL, NBA and NCAA games will be on the fl at screen TVs. Admission is free. For details, visit thebachelorsmill.com.

TUESDAY, JULY 24Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W) hosts its

Flashback dance night with DJ Jason Royce starting at 10 p.m. There is no cover charge. For more details, visit cobaltdc.com.


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TODAY Today and Saturday, the D.C. Center, National Coalition of LGBT Health, Whitman-Walker Health and Us Helping Us at George Washington University (2029 G Street, NW) are hosting the Gay Men’s Health Summit. Registration is $85, $65 for students. For more information, visit gmhs2012.org. The International Working Group on HIV & AIDS presents the International Indigenous Pre-Conference starting today at 8 a.m. and running through Saturday at 5 p.m. It will take place at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel (1201 K St., N.W.). The event is free but registration is required. For more information, visit indigenouspreconference.eventbrite.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 21The Men Who Have Sex with Men Pre-Conference is at FHI 360 (1825

Connecticut Ave., N.W.) starting at 9 a.m. going all day today. The theme for this year is “From Stigma to Strength: Strategies for MSM, Transgender People and Allies in a Shifting AIDS Landscape.” This event is free. For more information, visit msmgf.org.

Jay Brannan plays U Street Music Hall (1115A U Street NW) this evening at 7 p.m. Picking up his fi rst guitar at age 20, Brannan’s addiction to music helped him kick alcohol and allowed him to make connections with other performers. Tickets are $20. For more information, visit ustreetmusichall.com. Starting today and running through July 27, the Textile Museum (2320 S Street NW) is showing a special display of one panel from the AIDS quilt. An $8 donation is suggested. For more information about this event or other places that will be showing panels of the quilt, go to quilt2012.org. Town is holding the “AIDS Conference Party” tonight at 10 p.m. A drag show starts at 10:30 p.m. There are $3 drinks until 11 p.m. Cover is $8 from 10-11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m. For more information, visit towndc.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 22 There’s a March on Washington involving several different local organizations to open the International AIDS Conference from noon to 2 p.m. today. The Global Forum on MSM and HIV and the National Gay Men’s Health Summit present “Meet the Men of the International AIDS Conference” at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) tonight at 9:30 p.m. Cover is $10. For more information, visit gmhs2012.org.

MONDAY, JULY 23 Arena Stage (1101 6th St. SW) hosts a benefi t show of “The Normal Heart” tonight at 8 p.m. The award-winning show presents a look at the sexual politics of New York during the AIDS crisis. Tickets are $65. For more information, visit arenastage.org.

TUESDAY, JULY 24 Whitman-Walker Health hosts the “Return to Lisner: A Forum on the State of HIV/AIDS,” tonight at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University (2029 G Street, NW) at 7 p.m. The event is free but registration is required. For more information, visit whitman-walker.org. Reel Affi rmations presents the International AIDS Film Festival. It kicks off tonight with an opening reception at Number 9 (1435 P St., N.W.) starting at 5 p.m. Then at the Carnegie Institute of Science (1530 P St., NW) at 7 p.m., the festival is screening the fi lm “Still Around” and will have a panel discussion with the directors following the showing. The last event of the evening is the screening of “Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia” tonight at 9:15. Individual ticket prices is $10, but the festival is offering a $25 package for all the screenings. For more information, visit reelaffi rmationsaidsfi lmfest.eventbrite.com/.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 The International AIDS Film Festival continues tonight at the Carnegie Institute of Science (1530 P St., NW) starting at 7 p.m. with a screening of “Pills Profi t$ Protest” and a later screening “Sex In An Epidemic” at 9 p.m. Individual tickets are $10 and a package price is $25. For more information, visit reelaffi rmationsaidsfi lmfest.eventbrite.com/. For more events, visit the AIDS2012 Reunion website at aids2012reunion.org.

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Arena Stage production runs through July 29) and William Hoffman’s “As Is” to such recent works as “The Book of Mormon.” The theatrical community has been deeply involved in the artistic and activist response to AIDS. Here’s a sampling of plays and musicals that have AIDS as a central theme.

“Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” Part One of Tony Kushner’s sprawling epic (“Millennium Approaches”) opened on Broadway in May 1993, and Part Two (“Perestroika”) followed in November of that year. The play centers on Prior Walter, a gay man in Manhattan who has just been diagnosed with AIDS as the play opens. Over the course of the seven-hour theatrical extravaganza, Prior is abandoned by his lover Louis, who leaves him for a closeted Republican lawyer; befriends the Mormon’s mother and wife, who takes Valium in “wee little fi stfuls,” is nursed by his ex-lover, the fi erce snap queen Belize; and, is visited by an angel who wants to recruit him as a prophet. The play won the Pulitzer Prize and several Tony Awards and was adapted into both an award-winning movie by HBO Films and an opera by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös.

“The Normal Heart” by Larry Kramer was one of the earliest plays to deal with AIDS. Now playing at Arena Stage, the play is a thinly veiled autobiography of the author and the founding of Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

“Before It Hits Home” by Cheryl West was one of the fi rst dramas to focus on the impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Wendal is a bisexual jazz musician who denies his sexual encounters with men even after he is diagnosed with AIDS. He tries to hide the truth from his pregnant girlfriend and his married boyfriend, but as his health deteriorates, he is forced to return to his family and confess the truth.

“Rent” is Jonathan Larson’s hit musical and a loose adaptation of Puccini’s “La Boehme” set on the lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 1980s. Larson’s musical landscape includes a variety of

artists in a variety of straight and LGBT sexual situations. Many of the characters have AIDS and the Act II opener, “Seasons of Love” has become a popular anthem for the fi ght against AIDS.

The musical “Falsettos,” produced in Washington in 2010 by the now-closed Ganymede Arts, brings together two one-act musicals by William Finn written a decade apart. In “March of the Falsettos,” Marvin moves in with his male lover Whizzer, much to the distress of his ex-wife, his psychiatrist and his son. In “Falsettoland,” the extended family, now including “the lesbians from next door,” reunite to support Whizzer and Marvin as they deal with an AIDS diagnosis.

Perhaps most noticeably in theater, it’s possible to also trace how AIDS dramas have evolved over the years.

“’The Normal Heart’ was so signifi cant in its time, but it’s dated now because the disease has changed so much,” says David Jobin, executive director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, a group that along with its sister choruses has also dealt extensively with AIDS themes. “You see plays now, like ‘Octopus’ by Steve Yockey and it’s dealing with how different generations have responded to the crisis. We now have a whole generation of people whose experience is different and it’s not about loss at all. … all people could concentrate on in ‘The Normal Heart’ was grieving, so it’s become like ‘The Dollhouse,’ a great period piece but not really relevant to today. Which is great in a way that something that’s only 20 years old can already seem so dated. It shows how far we’ve come in treating the disease.”

Jobin says the greatest examples of AIDS-themed art transcend their subject matter.

“You watch something like the HBO adaptation of ‘Angels in America,’ and it becomes so much more than just a statement about AIDS,” he says. “It’s a tour de force for great acting and it’s in a league of its own. I can’t think of a musical or other work that even comes close.”

ARTISTS AS ACTIVISTS

The theatrical community, and the performing arts community in general, have also been incredibly effective at blending art and activism. For example, since 1987 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has been raising awareness and funds for AIDS organizations throughout the country. Their popular fundraisers include Broadway Bares, Broadway Barks, Broadway Bears, the annual Easter Bonnet and Gypsy of the Year competitions and the Fire Island Dance Festival.

One of the group’s most effective efforts has been its collaboration with the International Thespian Society, a national network of high school theater troupes. Starting in 1999, high school thespians have organized audience appeals, bucket brigades, silent auctions and special performances to raise money to fi ght AIDS.

During their annual festival in July 2012, Joe Norton, Broadway Cares’ director of education and outreach, announced that the student artists and activists had raised more than $1 million to support organizations in their communities.

“Thespians know how to effect change by working together and celebrating their love of theater,” Norton says. “And, in the process, they become leaders who raise awareness about HIV/AIDS where they live, while making a difference for so many people in need in their local communities and around the country.”

TELEVISION

Sometimes the artistic response to AIDS has been more about context than content. The popular nighttime ABC soap opera “Dynasty” was groundbreaking in its portrayal of Steven Carrington, the openly gay son of a wealthy Denver oil clan. But its role in the emerging AIDS crisis was due to an off-screen drama.

In 1984, closeted gay Hollywood icon Rock Hudson was cast as Daniel Reece, father of the scheming Sammy Jo

Carrington (Heather Locklear). Hudson’s character had a romantic interest in Krystle Carrington, played by series star Linda Evans. Although viewers gossiped about Hudson’s gaunt appearance and producers were worried enough about Hudson’s health to write his character out of the series, no one blinked an eye when Hudson and Evans shared an on-screen kiss.

That changed on July 25, 1985 when Hudson publicly announced that he had AIDS, the fi rst celebrity to reveal his HIV status. He learned that he had AIDS while he was appearing on “Dynasty,” and the soap set suddenly became the focus of a public health controversy. The CDC warned the public about exchanging saliva with members of high-risk groups. Aaron Spelling and the producers of “Dynasty” offered to arrange for AIDS tests for the entire cast. The Screen Actors Guild wrote new rules to regulate on- screen kisses.

Hudson’s revelation, and the subsequent revelation of his homosexuality, suddenly put a public face on the disease and his death on Oct. 2, 1985 set the stage for the fi rst television movie on AIDS. On Nov. 11, 1985, NBC broadcast “An Early Frost” starring Aidan Quinn as Michael Pearson, a successful Chicago lawyer who has not told his colleagues and family about his lover Peter Hilton (D.W. Moffett). When he’s diagnosed with AIDS, he’s forced to go home and tell his family the truth about himself.

MOVIES

A short sampler of independent and mainstream movies that have dealt directly with the AIDS crisis include:

The topic of AIDS. From early efforts, such as Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” series to recent books such as Edmund White’s “Jack Holmes and His Friend,” the novel has been a fertile ground for exploring the devastating impact of AIDS on individuals and their society.


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Buyers are always attracted to houses that show well, but they should take a sec-ond look at some of the often overlooked houses we have for sale in the Washington Metro area.

In the spring, we looked at ways to up-date and refresh the 1930s to 1940s colonial homes, (known as “the red brick box”) and the 1950s rambler, generally regarded as bland and dated. By doing simple decora-tive fi xes or more involved remodeling work to the interior and exteriors of these styles of homes, both of these housing types are extraordinarily redeemable.

We are going to tackle another type of house that was popular in the 1970s — the “contemporary” house that now seems so dated that most buyers don’t want to pur-chase this type of home. However, if you can see the potential with this style house and know what to do with it, you can end up with a beautiful home for less money.

Looking at some of the less desir-able elements of the contemporary-style home, many were built with the split-level fl oor plan. This allowed the builder to pro-duce more living space with a smaller foot-print but now seems dated. The second biggest fl aw is the lack of thermo pane windows. Energy costs were not a big con-cern then, but since these contemporary-style houses have big expanses of glass, it is a genuine issue for current buyers.

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If the front windows look onto the street, a lattice screen can offer privacy and functionality for the front outdoor space. Put a lattice screen in the front yard to create an atrium effect, so that your living room is not looking onto the street but into a mini-garden instead.

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The dining room is generally small, but that’s alright as it is the most unused room in most homes. Don’t weigh it down with big pieces. Adding shallow built-ins gives you both storage and space. If there is a wall between the living room and dining room, consider getting rid of it for better sense of open space. If there are glass doors to the backyard in the dining room, create your pa-tio or deck right outside the doors to extend the feeling and utility of living space.

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