HIV and AIDS

How To Survive A Plague

David France's stirring history of ACT UP.

Retired Lab Chimps Pressed Back Into Service

A San Antonio lab says primate research is necessary for curing diseases like AIDS and hepatitis. But what progress has really been made.

Cover Story: Is Biomedical Testing on Primates Still Necessary?

On October 24, scientists from around the world will come to San Antonio to discuss how testing on monkeys might one day lead to an AIDS cure. They'll be talking baboons, macaques, and vervets at the 30th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS, not chimpanzees. Once thought to be the ... More >>

His Whole Self

Donald Moffett shares it all in a strong survey at CAMH.

Moulin Rouge

10 Texas Answers to a High School Sex-Ed Test

Standardized sex tests for Texas?​Public schools in Washington D.C. are going to start administering a new standardized test to elementary, middle school and high school students. And this one's all about sex. It's the first of its kind in the U.S., but it probably won't be the last. Should s ... More >>

The Most Ridiculous Houston Rap Rumors Ever

​Earlier this week, Houston rapper Propain signed a deal with No Limit Records. Cool, except that he really didn't. See, and you likely didn't notice this because it's such a subversive part of the culture, but the environs of rap, themselves tedious and occasionally barbaric, are prime grou ... More >>

Today Only: Dine Out for Life

​Wondering where to go for lunch or dinner today? Let me make that choice exceptionally easy for you: Dine out for life, and support AIDS research by eating at one of these restaurants. They're all supporting Dining Out For Life, an annual charity event whereby restaurants donate 33 percent - ... More >>

The Normal Heart

Hip-Hop for HIV Awareness Concert

Tony Yayo Talks Sex, Patron And The Future Of G-Unit

​G-Unit soldiers Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo have signed on to headline Saturday's 4th Annual Hip-Hop For HIV Awareness concert at Reliant Center. Tickets are free, but only with an HIV test at one of the City of Houston Department of Health & Human Services' designated testing locations. A list ... More >>

Wanda Adams Tearfully Defends Herself To Gays At Council Meeting

Wanda Adams gets angry with critics​There were tears at today's city council meeting when Wanda Adams defended herself against charges she had abandoned her Montrose constituents in a vote on a proposed home for HIV/AIDS.Here's the video: fast-forward to the 16-minute mark. Kris Banks, a former Ad ... More >>

A Twisted Holiday

The Gay Men's Chorus of Houston sings holiday tunes in a whole new way

Houstonians Helping AIDS Victims In Big Media Push That Will Include Oprah

​What do Oprah, the TV show 20/20, Houston crime victim advocate Andy Kahan and Houston lawyer Kim Ogg have in common? They're all involved in the sordid tale of Philippe Padieu, a Dallas-area man who is in prison for knowingly having unprotected sex with dozens of women without telling them he w ... More >>

Dining Out For Life

On Thursday, April 30th, restaurants in over 50 cities across the nation are inviting patrons to dine out for life. The event was created in 1991 to support AIDS research in Philadelphia and has since spread to the rest of the United States. Last year saw more than 3,500 restaurants participati ... More >>

Rent

One of Broadway’s longest-running shows comes to town

Today: Swishahouse Hip Hop Health & Wellness Workshop

It's World AIDS Day, and although you don't hear near as much about it these days, the disease is still very much with us. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, in 2006 - the most recent year for which statistics are available - Harris County had the state's most ne ... More >>

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The Illumination Project

Local performers commemorate World AIDS Day

Rent

Broadway comes to Houston

Mail Call

Religious Fervor

Four Corners Music from Asia, Europe, North and South America

Mukuru raises awareness by bringing the ends of the earth to Houston

Colored Classics

Home Style

Caught on Camera

Photographer Adrain Chesser has "Something to Tell You"

Here's to Hope

Houston artists light up the Illumination Project 2004

USA-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Viva la Causa

Strap on a red ribbon and walk for AIDS awareness

Call Holding

Jerker still yanks at AIDS with abandon

Live, Nude Actors

Jerker doesn't have a big costume budget

AVES Clinic DOA

Questions linger in the aftermath of the clinic's closing

Out of the Closets

Archiving Houston's queer history, one T-shirt at a time

Retro Virus

Terrence McNally's ten-year-old Love! Valour! Compassion! shows signs of aging poorly

The Man Who Knew Too Soon?

Eight years ago Tom Curtis reported that AIDS could have been spread by an experimental polio vaccine grown on monkey kidneys. Scientists sniffed. Journalists scoffed. The story died. Now, a new book says the theory wasn't so stupid after all.

Reg Revisits Gay '80s

My Night With Reg

Critical Diagnosis

If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates

Holistic Touch

Some ex-patients credit the mind-body therapy of New Age healer JoAnne Mandel with saving their lives. Others say her compassion stopped at the bottom line.

Story Time

Elia Arce's performance art has a simple theme: The real lives of real people

Rotation

Life in Motion

A fatal diagnosis leads Bill T. Jones to ask: What's the best way to live?

Cliche Positive

Do good intentions make for good plays? Not necessarily.

Gay Times

The Battle Over Brentwood

To one side, it's a question of power; to the other, it's a question of homophobia. For both it's a question of whether a community, once sundered, can ever be bound together again.

The Private Life and Public Death of Frank Koury

Frank Koury wanted to keep his gay life at home and his legal life at Fulbright & Jaworski separated. But when he died, everything was revealed.

Blue Thoughts

Can a film without pictures really be a film?

Sentiment and Sneering

The Silence of the Lambs

Hollywood emerges from its AIDS innocence to produce the engaging, but predictable, Philadelphia

See No Evil, Teach No Evil

A Fort Bend County school district decrees that sex ed should start with abstinence and end with fidelity

Gray Matter of Concern

Both a bang and a whimper? The CAM's long-awaited Texas show may burn bright, but it doesn't burn deep

And I Ran (From the '80s)

I couldn't get away: The Houston music underground salutes our recently departed decade