With Serena Williams now retired, the active WTA player with the most Grand Slam titles is now…
…Venus Williams
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Activist and writer of all things HIV adjacent. 2020 GLAAD Award winner and NLGJA's 'LGBTQ Journalist of the Year'
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Check out the updated technical report on #monkeypox including forecasting and deep dive into demographic data! cdc.gov/poxvirus/monke
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In her farewell tournament, 40-year-old Serena Williams turns back time to scores a vintage, blockbuster win, 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2 over #2 Anett Kontaveit.
Serena Williams is into the third round of the #USOpen, where she will face Ajla Tomljanovic.
It's been one hell of a ride.
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What is Driving the Latest Monkeypox Messaging Battle? poz.com/blog/driving-l #hepatitisC #prevention #stigma #monkeypox
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"The Thing about Being Naked with ." This was more action than I am used to getting on a weeknight. Funny how nudity reveals more than you might expect. READ AND WATCH: marksking.com/my-fabulous-di #HIV #UequalsU
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Great new essay by about sex, shame, #HIV & #monkeypox.
"This Look-Over-There-ism is a distraction, maybe even a deflection. We can’t seem to accept that we, gay men, are hosting a party we didn’t plan."
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What is Driving the Latest #Monkeypox Messaging Battle? Fixating on rare, non-gay cases is a distraction, and maybe a deflection. (It's also an STI. Deal with it.) marksking.com/my-fabulous-di @BiomedSelfSoc @thrasherxy
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Michael Weinstein’s long-standing ego-driven anti-scientific moral crusade against sex has nothing to do with the HIV or the MPX outbreaks losangelesblade.com/2022/08/29/mon
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Venus and Serena are the reason I first watched and learned to love the sport of tennis. We are so lucky to have had the pleasure of watching history being made. #GOAT
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Smart roundup of the conflict over naming MPX as a sexually transmitted infection by HIV+ activist and journalist
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What is Driving the Latest #Monkeypox Messaging Battle? Fixating on rare, non-gay cases is a distraction, and maybe a deflection. (It's also an STI. Deal with it.) marksking.com/my-fabulous-di
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What an amazing symposium! Speakers from Malawi, Spain, England, Scotland, US across 8 or 9 time zones, 250 ppl watching from around the world. So edifying and generative. Thx for the invite and
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CBSS roundtable on “Is #monkeypox an #STI?” I’m @JamieDWebb, a PhD researcher at CBSS, and I’ll be live-tweeting this event.
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Serena and Venus on the same court.
The 2x #USOpen women's doubles champions have accepted a wild card.
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Today on Tub Talks w/Damon!:
takes on hot topics including #monkeypox, #PrEP, gay sex shaming, aging with HIV, phone sex work, meth recovery, vaping, embracing a ginger daddy, and so much more!!! Join us in the Tub!
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Sometimes, people are miserably eating their shit sandwich, and all they want is for you to take a bite. No thanks. Enjoy your shit sandwich, buddy.
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The first speaker, Dr. Michael Brady, says his opinion of "Is #monkeypox an STI?" ranges from "possibly" to "probably," and gives epi reasoning. But it is still complicated, and an issue fraught with sexual politics, esp among the #gay intelligentcia. Follow this thread for more.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CBSS roundtable on “Is #monkeypox an #STI?” I’m @JamieDWebb, a PhD researcher at CBSS, and I’ll be live-tweeting this event.
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1/x Founder and Board Chair Dr. Olajide Williams is our guest on 's Sunday #NYTReadalong. We'll cover #HipHop #HealthEquity #MentalHealth and more.
Watch live (Sun, 8:30am ET) or on demand on FB, TW, LI or YT: digimentors.group/post/nytreadal
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Took a walk down memory lane and opened up about what life is like for me these days as a longterm survivor.
Inspired by and ’s recent discussion. ❤️✨
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Long-Term Survivin' and Thrivin' @shawndecker poz.com/blog/longterms
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Spoke to and for this look at the challenges of monkeypox messaging: To say gay or not to say gay? The Biden administration is toeing a sensitive line between transparency and stigma
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The just can't decide if it's worth mentioning on their #monkeypox page that #gay, Bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are at risk (98% of cases). (It is.)
June 1: gay/bi/msm mentioned
August 11: language removed
August 18: (some) language back
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Author John Barry speaks to the pitfalls of trying to massage the truth about public health in what is inevitably a faulty effort to manage the public's reaction.
His thoughts are in keeping with how I am determined to communicate about #monkeypox.
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Rep Liz Cheney (R-WY) tonight: “Two years ago I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could’ve done so again. The path was clear. But it would’ve required that I went along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election”
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Great MPX interview: the racism/fascism/capitalism driving health disparities; the US botched response (again); how queer ingenuity is sometimes our only resource AND how GWM leave the (#HIV, MPX) battlefield after we get what we came for.
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The gay agenda is keeping gay people alive. That’s our big scary plan. Staying alive.
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celebrating #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, & sharing stories and portraits of pivotal members from the #SouthAsian community.
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#FreddieMercury (1946-1991) - chosen by , Playwright #Freddiebhai & Artistic Director of
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How does #COVID affect ppl living with #HIV long term? Help find out! & is studying #PLHIV who’ve never had or had #COVID for the 1st time in last 4 wks. INFO HERE: covidrecoverystudy.org Recruitment materials available in Spanish. Please share!
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Fight fear and misinformation with facts. #Monkeypox continues to primarily affect #gay/msm (98%). Spreading in the air/on surfaces is extremely rare. Cases among women and children are also rare. Let's keep sharing accurate, candid info with our fellow gay/msm at risk.
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#Monkeypox misinformation is spreading faster than the virus, spawning an epidemic of largely unfounded anxiety, I report for @NBCNews.
Myth:
The virus transmits readily & often via the air and surfaces
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Sex between men drives this outbreak
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Myth:
The virus transmits readily & often via the air and surfaces
Truth:
Sex between men drives this outbreak
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Must-read Q&A w/ , now on White House’s new #monkeypox response team & on vaccines, talking about monkeypox & men who have sex w/ men + more! is ’s #HIVAIDS prevention director & a former GMHC board member.
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Anyway, I'm going to keep lifting up the sex lives of every human, and try to be thoughtful and nuanced without demonizing people, or their sex lives, or even other writers who disagree. I agree with one thing: we're turning on each other at the worst possible time.
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I wrote "Your Mother Liked It Bareback." I'm hardly a puritan. So I reject the notion that the MPX discussion is between the same sex positive/negative camps as the PrEP (or the U=U) skirmishes. That's just overly simplistic, even if it whips up into a frenzy.
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I was thrilled for "the sluts" who could fuck without fear once PrEP appeared. I am also a poz gay man thrilled that #UequalsU means I can have condomless sex without putting my sex partner at risk. MPX is different because, guess what, these viral outbreaks are different.
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Where does this angry diatribe leave me, a sex-positive poz undetectable PrEP warrior, who has encouraged MSM to dial it back short-term until a monkeypox vaccine is more widely available? Why make this a "fight" with winners and losers? I'm confused by all this hostility.
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I think what's happening now with this intracommunity fight over shaming people into less sex is because WE JUST HAD THIS FIGHT around PrEP and the sluts won, pissing a lot of people off.
Larry Kramer hated PrEP. He came around...
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My #monkeypox vax experience at could not have been better. What a pleasure it is, after all the sound and fury of the national debate, to witness these front-line people just doing their jobs, wonderfully. READ: marksking.com/my-fabulous-di #gay
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Georgia's DeKalb County Does #Monkeypox Vax Exactly Right. "We are here to serve this community. The MSM community is underserved and underacknowledged, and it’s really important for everyone to feel safe and important.” READ: marksking.com/my-fabulous-di #gay
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"This life is crazy, and it can break your heart, but we want a little more."
What an engaging and endearing conversation between 2 long-term #HIV survivors 🎀
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I wonder if I'll grow old like this ☺️
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This moving WashPo editorial from is a love letter to the resilience and strength of gay men. Asking gay/MSM to mitigate our risk of monkeypox through strategies like fewer sex partners and venues is a communal act of self-love, too.
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If due to the paywall you can't read my @WashingtonPost oped in which I argue that gay men should change their sexual behavior to mitigate the risk of #monkeypox, here is the full text, in two tweets. 1/2 washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/
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Two Long-Term Survivors on Life, Death, and Leaving HIV Activism poz.com/blog/two-longt #LongTermSurvivors #stigma
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Join me at the #2023 #HIVisNotACrime training academy! Follow me or hashtag #HINAC to learn more. People living with #HIV are still being prosecuted for no other crime than daring to have sex. We are working to stop that.
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The CDC's @dr_demetre on #Monkeypox, Stigma, and being 'the Gay in the Room.' "There are some days when you don’t feel like being the gay in the room. But I don’t have that option. It’s the right thing to do." READ:marksking.com/my-fabulous-di @CDC_HIV #HIV @CDCgov
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