Last night I had the pleasure of participating in a public forum on social marketing tactics used for queer health promotion -- particularly HIV prevention. I've long been an advocate for reform in the way social marketing is done. It tends to be overly stigmatizing and poorly researched and designed. The audience seemed to agree with the panelists, who came to a consensus that change is needed --- though we disagreed over how radical that change should be. One the panel: Michael Petrelis, Michael Seiver (who runs Tweaker.org), me, and Jason Riggs (deputy director of the STOP AIDS Project).

Hopefully I'll have a copy of the night's full video in my hands soon -- but until then, above you'll see a short clip of me talking about unintended audiences with HIV prevention. The compression is a bit funky since my friend shot it vertically instead of landscape, so I had to rotate it 90 degrees. So I look a little wide :) But it's good stuff nonetheless.

Here are some photos for your enjoyment!

Chatty forum fun!