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Porn Condom Ballot Measure For L.A. County Sees Campaign Kickoff

The folks behind a ballot measure that asks you, the L.A. County voter, to make condoms mandatory in porn, officially kicked off their campaign this week. Measure B will be on the November ballot, and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been pushing for mandatory condoms in adult video for ye ... More >>

AIDS Walk Makes Big Deal of Big Blue Bus Ad Ban, Wrongly Cries 'Discrimination'

Organizers of AIDS Walk Los Angeles took aim today at the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus system, saying the organization is banning its ads as part of a "discriminatory policy." Craig Miller, founder of AIDS Walk and a Santa Monica resident, said in a statement: All these years later, to be dealing wit ... More >>

Porn's European Syphilis Outbreak Bad Omen For L.A. Adult Industry Shutdown?

The porn industry says its production shutdown at the hands of a syphilis scare could last two weeks as all performers are treated, but one expert says it could last longer. Attorney Michael Fattorosi says that, in light of a major syphilis outbreak in the European industry, the closure could happe ... More >>

Drug War Leads to More HIV?

Updated at the bottom with some of the report's findings. First posted on June 21. In L.A. your favorite outlaw drug, marijuana, is pretty much legit and widely available (for now). But what if it wasn't? What if you had to scrounge around dirty, dark alleys, buy your fix from shady drug dealers, ... More >>

Looking Back at AIDS

Porn Defends the Money Shot

Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS

We Were Here Review

Five San Franciscans remember the AIDS crisis

AIDS: USC Says Prof Pin Wang Has Invented 'A Virus That Hunts Down HIV-Infected Cells'

USCPin Wang.​Sometimes the best way to catch a mouse is the natural way -- with a cat. Using that philosophy, it seems, USC chemical engineering Professor Pin Wang might have just hit one out of the park. The university announced today that he "created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cel ... More >>

Porn Stars Speak Out Against Mandatory Condoms in Adult Film (Photos)

ryankeely.comRyan Keely speaks out.​Following this week's state workplace health meeting on requiring condoms in porn, adult stars spoke out against the proposed practice. An interesting theme among some of the women: It's a reproductive rights issue. "Keep your laws off my body," former P ... More >>

Will West Hollywood Name A Street After Movie Star and AIDS Activist Elizabeth Taylor?

HIV/AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor​West Hollywood City Council members are known for their dedications, proclaiming such things as "Ozzy Osbourne Day," "Slash Day," and the list goes on. Those rock legends are great (both of them happen to be gay-friendly, by the way), but WeHo council memb ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles at 79: Her Children Were at Her Side

Elizabeth Taylor in 'Father of the Bride.'​Updated at the end with church wackos planning to protest her funeral because Taylor was a friend of the gay community. Check out our slide show of 12 of Taylor's most iconic roles here. Check out our piece about reaction from the HIV/AIDS activism ... More >>

Porn Stars Could See Mandatory STD Testing, New State Rules For Their 'Workplace'

Vivid.All shook up.​It looks like porn stars in California will see stricter safety rules on how they do their thing on-set. Just like a construction worker has to wear a hardhat, they might have to don condoms and submit to tests. At least according to our reading of coverage of a state work ... More >>

Constitutional Right to Sex

Porn Industry Fights Claims By Performer Derrick Burts, Who Was No Angel (And Who Might Have Freelanced As A Male Escort)

Ted SoquiDerrick Burts, letting the porn industry have it.​The porn business is fighting back against claims by the actor who sparked its last HIV scare that he was met with indifference at the adult-industry-backed clinic where he sought treatment. We even heard from readers who said the ma ... More >>

World AIDS Day: HIV In L.A. County Lockups 600 Percent Higher Than Outside

HIV is way higher in L.A. County's lockups than in its general population.​The inmate populations of Los Angeles county lockups have an HIV infection rate that's 600 percent above that of the general population. Welcome to World AIDS Day 2010. La Opinion newspaper (translation) is marking th ... More >>

Valley Porn Production Resumes Following HIV Scare

Steve LaSome activists want porn producers to mandate condom-use on-set.​Following last month's HIV scare in adult video, more than a few major porn producers put the brakes on production as the Sherman Oaks-based Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Heathcare Foundation tried to sort out who might ha ... More >>

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Calls For Complete Shutdown Of San Fernando Valley Porn Production Following HIV Report

​Sorry guys (and freaky chicks who also like porn -- God bless), but this HIV problem in adult video is getting serious. After two major porn-production players, Vivid and Wicked, stated they were putting "shoots" on hold, the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is calling on all adult video ... More >>

Prominent AIDS Monument Vandalized in East L.A.

LGBT POVThe vandalized section of The Wall Las Memorias in East L.A.​The Wall Las Memorias, the first publicly funded AIDS monument in the nation, was recently vandalized, reports Frontiers news editor Karen Ocamb. Someone damaged a portion of the monument with yellow paint, which is located ... More >>

AIDS Groups Square Off in Dispute Over Competing Fundraisers

AIDS Healthcare founder Michael Weinstein, left, during happier times.​AIDS Project Los Angeles has sued AIDS Healthcare Foundation for alleged unfair competition practices and trademark infringement, according to Los Angeles Business Journal, setting off a rare and tense battle between two m ... More >>

Former Porn Stars File Suit Against Porn Industry Health Organization For Allegedly Releasing Medical Records

​Two former porn stars are planning to sue the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) for allegedly breaching the privacy of their medical records. Representatives of the pair were scheduled to announce the suit Monday with the help of the Aids Healthcare Foundation, which has a ... More >>

Porn's Talent Agencies Targeted In Drive To Require Condoms In Adult Film Industry

​In its drive to get the government to mandate condom use in the adult film industry, the Aids Healthcare Foundation states that it will file state complaints Thursday against nine porn talent agencies for encouraging what it argues is dangerous, unsafe sex. "These talent agencies are a pipel ... More >>

Rubbers Revolutionary: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Michael Weinstein

Activist wants to save porn actors from STDs. It's been lonely

Marriott Boycotted Over Porn

The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Intoxicating Salaries The high wages earned by administrators of the publicly funded Tarzana Treatment Center are raising eyebrows. L.A. TimesProp Company Clears the Set The second-largest film and TV prop company is folding, a victim of production slowdowns due to Industry strike fears. L.A. Daily ... More >>

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Nasdijj's Blog

The Crystal Conundrum

Meth is the drug of the moment for gay men who thought they’d die young. So who can get them to stop?

Patriot Act

"Forged in fire" fighting for gay rights in O.C., WeHo mayor John Duran isn't afraid to speak out

Plastic Pie

Saving Face

When good drugs have disfiguring consequences

Losing Dorothy

If you’re black and poor in L.A., silence still equals death.

Black AIDS: 'Our People, Our Problem, Our Solution'

Pro and Condoms

West Hollywood voters to decide on bar plan

Waiting for the End of the World

Jon Cohen documents the fits and starts of AIDS-vaccine research

The First Step Back

Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more

Acting Up

Dissident gays anger veteran activists by calling for end to AIDS funding

Whacked

Masturbation as disease, and other historical madnesses

Health Services

Out of Order

Orange County judge wants to know HIV status of players in his courtroom

Bareback Riding

The porn industry deals with another HIV-positive performer

What's Next?

The Gay Movement at the Crossroads

A Matter of Life and Death

The age, and new age, of AIDS

91 Timeline

AIDS housing agency can't spend fast enough

Nobel Savage

A search for HIV's missing link

AIDS activists fight to keep HIV reports confidential

Ask, But Don't Tell

The Virus Fights Back

Short Time for Needle Exchange

Hollywood agency gets eviction notice

Room at the Top

County fails to respond to AIDS leadership crisis