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...Morning After and The Test accurately depict the real world because the researchers who worked on the films know the data so well. One of the researchers behind the film, Mary Ann Chiasson, 58, worked for the New York City Department of Health for nearly 14 years, beginning in June 1986. It was important to her in conceiving the character Josh not to create a gay man who would be an extreme caricature. Josh drinks too much, but he isn't a bug-eyed crystal-meth addict because - despite many lurid news stories - very few gay men who have unsafe...
Public-health experts are now fighting back with a new online campaign. On June 11, New York University, Public Health Solutions (a New York-based nonprofit) and a filmmaker named Todd Ahlberg launched a website called hivbigdeal.org. It features two online short films designed to remind gay men that - duh - HIV is still deadly, and that we must talk about it in the bedroom, during those awkward moments before sex. The films are called The Morning After and The Test, and I can't stop thinking about them. A disclaimer: while the shorts are smartly directed, they are poorly acted...
...Americans that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with a stroke of his pen. Yet the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863, did no such thing - or, at least, it didn't do a very good job of it. Two and a half years later, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas, announced the end of the Civil War, and read aloud a general order freeing the quarter-million slaves residing in the state. It's likely that none of them had any idea that they had actually been freed more than two years...
...says the Rev. Ronald V. Meyers, chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. Meyers has worked for almost 15 years to get Juneteenth recognized by state legislatures. Currently, a little more than half of U.S. states acknowledge Juneteenth in some form or another, usually on the third Saturday of June. (Read "For African Americans, Uncovering a Painful Past...
...girls who made the pregnancy pact - some of whom, according to Sullivan, reacted to the news that they were expecting with high fives and plans for baby showers - declined to be interviewed. So did their parents. But Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8, thinks she knows why these girls wanted to get pregnant. Ireland, 18, gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland...