Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Keep VD Out of Valentine's Day, Use a Condom

​While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are camping onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem. Today, the California Family Health Counci ... More >>

Miracle Faker: Rick Perry's Texas Teaches America the Wrong Lessons

​While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are camping onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem. Today, the California Family Health Counci ... More >>

Hey FDA: Pick On Big Food Producers, Not Little Ones

Genaro Molina/Los Angeles TimesDanielle Fetzer and Steven Pociunas, volunteers at Rawesome Foods in Venice, after the store was raided​After a year-long investigation, agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration joined state and local authorities yesterday to bust owners of a small Venic ... More >>

Asians Attack City for Lack of HIV Prevention Programs

Yo, where's the Asian Healthy Penis? ​The San Francisco Department of Public Health is known for being particularly hip and inventive with its STD-prevention campaigns targeting gay men. Based on the progressive campaigning the DPH has conducted in the past, including the Healthy Penis campaign (h ... More >>

Don’t Worry, We’ll Never Forget Her

Yo, where's the Asian Healthy Penis? ​The San Francisco Department of Public Health is known for being particularly hip and inventive with its STD-prevention campaigns targeting gay men. Based on the progressive campaigning the DPH has conducted in the past, including the Healthy Penis campaign (h ... More >>

SF Politicians Criticize NY Post Story on Alleged Strauss-Kahn Rape Victim's HIV Status

Dominique Strauss-Kahn​Every once in a while, San Francisco politicians surprise you. The city's Board of Supervisors is justly acknowledged for its symbolic gestures at the local level -- banning plastic bags, expressing support for cop killers, and the like. But the span of officialdom's tut-tut ... More >>

STD Alert: Cases More Prevalent Among Men Who Have Sex With Other Men

Clark says to keep your penis healthy. ​ It's time to get those Healthy Penis muppets back on the streets. The Department of Public Health is saying men who have sex with men have a much greater chance of having sexually-transmitted diseases.The city's health officials released a 45-page PowerPoin ... More >>

HIV Test Kits Found in Excelsior District

And the thief still doesn't know his status​Clearly, someone couldn't wait any longer to know their HIV status, and thought the quickest way to get results was to rip off a bunch of test kits from a Bay Area company. At about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday police were called to investigate some medical su ... More >>

A Valentine's Day Fact -- STDs Are on the rise in San Francisco

Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

Picturing Queer Literary History

Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

Tom Ammiano Tells Latinos He Won't Call Meg Whitman A 'Puta'

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

A Piece of the Rock

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

New Leaf, LGBT Mental Health Center, Closing Doors

Sadly, New Leaf is being turned over​Exploding costs of health care benefits and leases will force New Leaf -- a 35-year-old San Francisco center serving the LGBT community with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS services -- to close in October. The center's board of directors announced ... More >>

Oh, Snap: City Attorney Demands Proof of Cocoa Krispies' Immunity-Boosting Claim

Get a flu shot, kids​Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Francisco City Attorney, ... More >>

Walk On By

Get a flu shot, kids​Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Francisco City Attorney, ... More >>

Sex Positive

Get a flu shot, kids​Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Francisco City Attorney, ... More >>

A Beautiful Risk

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Just What You Need Before a Weekend of Rib-Eating: The Latest in Swine Flu Conspiracy News

i,max via FlickrGrist has a nicely conspiratorial analysis (*cue X-Files music*) of the current investigations into the origin of the swine flu epidemic. Among the highlights: The World Health Organization helped author a paper for Science that pinpointed the likely source of the swine flu as La Gl ... More >>

Chuck Prophet Does Not Have Swine Flu...

Francisco Miranda ...but he did have to wear one of those funny little blue face masks for a while. San Francisco troubadour Prophet traveled down to Mexico City in recent months to record a new album that's set to come out this fall. Once south of the border, Prophet found plenty of material to wri ... More >>

Dining Out for Life

The HIV prevention programs at the STOP AIDS Project will be the beneficiaries of the 8th Annual Dining Out for Life program on April 30. On selected meals that day, the participating restaurants will donate 25% of your food bill (and, in some, cases, alcohol) to the STOP AIDS Project. Local esta ... More >>

Why The Hell is Supervisor Bevan Dufty the Anonymous Poster Boy For an HIV Drug?

If Bevan Dufty were the frontman for a Hair Club for Men billboard, we'd assume he's bald. So what are we supposed to think when we see the District 8 supervisor as the poster boy for an HIV pill? Not since Gavin Newsom and Fiona Ma -- the Prom King and Queen of San Francisco politics -- appeared t ... More >>

Cambodian Fever

If Bevan Dufty were the frontman for a Hair Club for Men billboard, we'd assume he's bald. So what are we supposed to think when we see the District 8 supervisor as the poster boy for an HIV pill? Not since Gavin Newsom and Fiona Ma -- the Prom King and Queen of San Francisco politics -- appeared t ... More >>

Staph Infection Coverage Generates Gay Health Hysteria

If Bevan Dufty were the frontman for a Hair Club for Men billboard, we'd assume he's bald. So what are we supposed to think when we see the District 8 supervisor as the poster boy for an HIV pill? Not since Gavin Newsom and Fiona Ma -- the Prom King and Queen of San Francisco politics -- appeared t ... More >>

Dengue Fever

Venus on Earth (M80)

A Beauty Myth

Venus on Earth (M80)

HIV Rides Seminal Protein Rafts To Uninfected Free Worlds

Venus on Earth (M80)

Unexpected Endings

Venus on Earth (M80)

Just Do It

And ... Action

Most Moving Garden

The National AIDS Memorial Grove

Golden Gate Park, Middle Drive East & Bowling Green Drive

The House That Chuck Built

What nasty business is behind the biggest donation to the new gay and lesbian center?

The Anthrax Detector No One Wants

In Berkeley, researchers have found a way to identify deadly spores, which could lead to simple, smoke detector-like devices. So why isn't anyone interested?

Letters to the Editor

Heavy Fire; The Same Old Story; Savage Attack

Letters to the Editor

Letters from January 24, 2001

South to the Future

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Letters

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Letters

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Long Lost, Late Won

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Savage Love

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Letters

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

Mulch

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

A Wasting of Time

An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it

Dog Bites

An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it

Aisle Seat

An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it

Aisle Seat

An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it

Sudden Death

Needle-exchange pioneer John Watters' interrupted journey

Dog Bites

Needle-exchange pioneer John Watters' interrupted journey

Savage Love

Needle-exchange pioneer John Watters' interrupted journey

Dialing for AIDS Dollars

National group soaks donors for telemarketing scheme as Republicans seize Capitol Hill

Savage Love

National group soaks donors for telemarketing scheme as Republicans seize Capitol Hill

Aisle Seat

National group soaks donors for telemarketing scheme as Republicans seize Capitol Hill