Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York

Kai Wright, the editorial director of Colorlines.com, is the author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York.”

Here’s the first thing to understand about H.I.V.: there’s nothing simple about it. Yes, everyone from public health officials to AIDS awareness activists has worked valiantly to communicate some simple truths: it’s a preventable infection; anybody can get it; silence equals death. All that’s true. But in more than 15 years of reporting on the epidemic, I’ve yet to see or hear of a silver-bullet solution.

New Black MSM Data Beg This Question: Do We Have the Will to End the AIDS Epidemic?

According to data released by the CDC last week, H.I.V. infections among most populations in the United States, while unacceptably high, have remained relatively stable in recent years. But among young Black gay and bisexual men ages 13-29, the data show a 48 percent increase in new infections from 2006 to 2009. Our nation’s H.I.V. prevention efforts have stalled at best, and among young Black gay and bisexual men, we have clearly failed.

Rev. Andrena Ingram: Ministering to Others While HIV-Positive

The intensity and clarity of Pastor Andrena Ingram's eyes stand out above all else: brown, luminous and tender. Nothing in them reflects the emotional, physical and sexual abuse of her youth or the chronic illnesses she’s battled for more than two decades. HIV, diabetes and hypertension require her to consume more than a dozen pills each day.

From Colorlines.com

70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color

It’s an all too common, if shocking story: A transgender Latina woman with HIV is attacked on a street close to her home in a low-income neighborhood in the Bay Area. Making a bad situation worse, police officers literally drag her from her bed at 6 a.m. because they think she committed the crime herself.

Join the Black AIDS Institute at the National HIV Prevention Conference

The Black AIDS Institute is hosting a roundtable session, participating in the CBO/NGO village, and a special session at the 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC) in Atlanta.

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