The University of British Columbia has granted club status to roughly 300 student groups, but its student-funded Alma Mater Society (AMS) has refused to authorize an HIV/AIDS club for the past three years, Canadian newspaper The Province reports (canada.com, 4/14).
Since 2006, at least two groups at the university have submitted four separate constitutions to authorize [...]
College Bans Student HIV/AIDS Club
Students of Virginity
There was a time when not having sex consumed a very small part of Janie Fredell’s life, but that, of course, was back in Colorado Springs. It seemed to Fredell that almost no one had sex in Colorado Springs. Her hometown was extremely conservative, and as a good Catholic girl, she was annoyed by all [...]
Hey Asian America, What’s Goin’ On?
I serve as advocacy co-chair of NAASCon and encourage all of you and your friends to submit personal stories and testimonials on your experiences on being Asian American. We are trying to reorient the meaning of “activism,” which does not necessarily require one to participate in vocal protests. Activism ranges from challenging preconceived notions of [...]
When Girls Will Be Boys
It was late on a rainy fall day, and a college freshman named Rey was showing me the new tattoo on his arm. It commemorated his 500-mile hike through Europe the previous summer, which happened also to be, he said, the last time he was happy. We sat together for a while in his room [...]
SJSU suspends blood drives, citing FDA ban on donations by gay men
In a move believed to be the first by a college campus in the nation, San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration bars any man who has had sex with another man from donating blood. “The FDA’s lifetime blood donor deferral affecting [...]
Then and Now
I feel a lifetime has transpired since I first found out that I was HIV-positive July 2007. Although it is largely blur between now and the, I can still remember our first meeting quite well. We were sitting in a small, stuffy windowless room. He cleared his throat several times as he tried making small [...]
Our first press coverage!
The Pacific Citizen, an award winning Asian Pacific American newspaper, published an article describing the HIV Youth Project’s origins.
Read the article online here: Pacific Citizen
Introductions (part deux)
Hey peoples! My name is Henry and I’m also helping out, publishing posts, and sharing my experience with being HIV positive (one year and counting bitches!). William came to me with this project with the hopes of finding others like us. Of course keeping in mind that your average person wont shout atop his/her lungs [...]
My Introduction
Hi everyone, my name is William and I am a queer Asian American fourth-year college student in the Bay Area. I tested HIV-positive in July 2007 and the ensuing weeks have been terribly trying and difficult. After scouring the internet, I found the resources for HIV-positive youth of color to be severely lacking. After disclosing [...]