Santorum Pwns “Santorum”
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/02/15/42002
The one Santorum political ad you MUST watch.
January 30, 2012
TODAY IN HISTORY:
NY Times Report AIDS Breakthrough: 1996. The AIDS epidemic had raged unchecked for at least fifteen years with very little hope in sight. For countless numbers of people around the world, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when. …
Then in 1996, an entirely new type of drug, Indinavir (marketed as Crixivan) entered the market. Known as a protease inhibitor, it inhibits another HIV enzyme known as the protease enzyme from functioning. The New York Times wrote a very cautious report on the breakthrough. …
As tentative as the initial reports were, the results soon proved unmistakeable. When 3TC joined AZT in 1995 as a viable treatment, there was a noticeable plateau in the number of deaths due to AIDS. But in 1996 when the three-drug cocktail became available, the number of deaths due to AIDS would see its first drop since the epidemic began. And it wasn’t a slight drop either — it was a 20% improvement from the year before. People at death’s door began coming back from the abyss. …
The three-drug cocktail, which became known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), wasn’t a cure, but the breakthrough was undeniable. … More recent research shows that, thanks to HAART, people with AIDS can now expect a near-normal lifespan. And yet, HAART’s side effects can take a brutal toll on the body … which makes finding a cure still as important as ever.
Researcher Questions Intense Focus on LGBT Youth Suicide: Is it Time for a More Holistic Approach to Supporting LGBT Youth?
Jason Cianciotto, Box Turtle Bulletin
October 22nd, 2010
Posted October 24, 2010 at 12:43am in BoxTurtleBulletin human sexuality violence bullying worldviews scarcity vs abundance
NSSHB on gay percentages
Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion has released its National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, what is dubbed “the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans’ sexual behavior since 1994.” As part of its extensive review of American sex practices, the NSSHB also provides information on the prevalence of gay people in the population.
Timothy Kincaid
Box Turtle Bulletin
October 5th, 2010
Posted October 7, 2010 at 2:33pm in BoxTurtleBulletin
Exodus President Expresses Regret For Uganda Debacle
Jim Burroway, Box Turtle Bulletin
June 8th, 2010
“The statement, posted on Exodus International’s blog, in my view constitutes a fairly comprehensive acknowledgment of Chambers personal failings over his handling of the Uganda debacle. While the statement does not use the word “apology” specifically, he provides a detailed self-examination of his mistakes along [with] some of the motives for making them and expresses regret for them. If there’s one thing I gained from my Catholic education, it’s that I think I can recognize a genuine act of contrition when I see one. This statement goes far beyond anything I had ever expected to see.”
Posted June 9, 2010 at 4:28pm in BoxTurtleBulletin apologies currentevents NotTheOnion templates progress Uganda
Moscow Pride Elude Police, Pride March Goes Ahead Undisturbed
In defiance of yet another ban against holding a Gay Pride march by Moscow city authorities, and in yet another display of LGBT activists’ incredible organizing abilities, a march by LGBT advocates and allies took place this afternoon on Moscow’s main Leningradsky Avenue undisturbed.
Jim Burroway, Box Turtle Bulletin, May 29th, 2010
“Michael Bussee, You Have Blood On Your Hands”
by Daniel Gonzales, Box Turtle Bulletin
May 21st, 2010
For those interested in the topic, the exchanges between Zach and Michael Bussee in the comments section are REQUIRED reading.
Rekers’ “Entrapment” Excuse
… was anticipated five years ago by The Onion (headline NSFW).
There is no such thing as parody anymore.
Jim Burroway
May 13th, 2010
Posted May 13, 2010 at 2:20pm in BoxTurtleBulletin
The real battle for equality is over whether queer* people and queer couples exist.
You’d think that would be a given. Everyone knows – on some level – that queer folks exist and that some of them form couples. Yet that is the point most hotly debated by anti-gay activists and most ardently denied by anti-gay politicians.
All of the anti-gay rhetoric that we hear about “there is no gay gene” and “no one is born gay” and “there is no such thing as sexual orientation” and “change is possible” all seek to deny the existence of queer people. These claims all seek to advance the notion that those who identify as queer are just “heterosexuals with a queer problem” or are “heterosexuals who struggle with queer attractions.”
Because once you acknowledge that queer people exist – real queer people and not just flawed heterosexuals who engage in queer behavior – then you have changed the power dynamic in the debate. If queer people exist, the question is no longer over what will be allowed for people who do, but becomes a debate over what rights exist for people who are. No longer can discrimination be dismissed by, “well if they just wouldn’t do that”; and now rights are presumed to exist and any denial must be justified and explained.
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Timothy Kincaid
Box Turtle Bulletin
May 12th, 2010
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* I have taken the liberty of substituting the word “queer” as an umbrella term for “not heterosexual” in the above quote whenever the words “gay”, “homosexual”, and “same-sex” blatantly enforce a gay/straight duality and ignore everyone and anyone else who doesn’t identify as one or the other. I LOVE Box Turtle Bulletin but I find I must do this translation in my head ON A REGULAR BASIS to counteract the invisibilty of those, including myself, who don’t identify as default “gay”. Because look! *points at above quote* They get LOTS of stuff right!