May 2010 Archives

Here are a few things from around the web that I've been meaning to blog about:

1. Larry Kramer slams Obama in a speech at an ACT UP / Healthgap demonstration in New York. A choice quote:

President after President have treated us so badly. Ronald Reagan. George Bush the first. Bill Clinton. George Bush the second. Barack Obama. They have all treated us like... shit. Like little pieces of shit that they can step on with their heels and grind into the ground. Obama is treating us just like that. Like little pieces of shit he can grind into the dirt with his heel to make us go away. I wish you could see that. I wish you could see what he is doing to us for for what it is. He is manipulating us into invisibility. He HAS manipulated us into invisibility. Our people in Washington live in a never-never cloud cuckoo-land, thinking that this man likes us, not responding as, little by little, he take bits and pieces of us away. That is how they control us. Can't you see that? Why can't our people in Washington see that? They give them a dinner as they take away another right.

2. DC-based Fuk!t has signed up our favorite twink Brent Corrigan for a safe-sex PSA. This would be all well and good, but the asshole director (an MD - no surprise there!) gave perhaps the most condescending interview with The Advocate I've ever read RE: Corrigan's previous bareback porn movies. Just listen to this pathologizing, fucked up response to whether the doc believes Corrigan was "taken advantage of" when doing bareback porn when he was 17:

"Oh, I would say that he was taken advantage of pretty clearly. No 17-year-old knows what they're doing (laughs). He knew what he was doing as well as any 17-year-old brain knows what it's doing. He definitely was taken advantage of, I don't have any question about that... which is why he's grown considerably. He's an amazingly mature individual for someone who's been through what he's been through."

And that, my friends, is why Terry Gerace, MD, is my asshole of the day! Typical doctor bullshit.

3. Canada's highest court has ruled that an HIV-negative man is not placed at "significant risk of serious bodily harm" if they fuck a HIV-positive bottom. The court ruled in 1998 in R. v. Cuerrier that HIV-positive people must disclose their status before engaging in sex that carries a "significant risk" of transmission. Topping can't be used to prosecute that anymore. It's a step, but far from enough.

4. In other news, the Michigan judge hearing a case against an HIV-positive man being charged with bioterrorism for biting his neighbor during an incident he describes as a hate crime has refused to drop the outrageous bioterrorism charge.