Posted 5/17/2013 11:00:00 AM
Today’s article is a response by guest columnist Mark Hubbard to “Should It Be a Crime to Expose One to HIV?” an article appearing on TheRoot.com by The Root contributer Keli Goff.
"Should It Be a Crime to Have Sex While Living With HIV?" That would have been a much more genuine title to Keli Goff’s recent article, “Should It Be a Crime to Expose One to HIV?” on the proposed Repeal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 published on The Root.
Let’s first acknowledge that few arrests, prosecutions or convictions under HIV-specific criminal exposure laws involve minors and set aside Ms. Goff’s opening paragraphs which constitute an intentional emotionally inflammatory conflation of the issue of HIV disclosure with child sexual abuse.
Beyond that, the piece is rife with fallacies. I’ll address them in the order they appear.
“It is not entirely clear why Rep. Barbara ...
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Posted 5/16/2013 4:15:00 PM
Getting tested for HIV is terrifying enough in 2013 with 30 plus years of understanding and treatment under our collective belts, I can’t even imagine the fear and anxiety that must have accompanied the notion of taking the test when it was brand new in 1985.
That’s the premise of a new film debuting at the
Seattle International Film Festival on June 7, 2013.
Test is the story of Frankie and Todd, dancers in a prestigious San Francisco dance company, who must navigate life in time when people are talking openly of quarantining the gay population and the newly named AIDS virus seems to crouch in every intimate touch.
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