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Liz Highleyman is a San Francisco-based freelance journalist and medical writer who has written extensively on HIV, sexual health, queer politics, censorship, the sex industry, and the history of sex and sexuality. She is currently senior staff writer for HIVandHepatitis.com. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Bay Area Reporter, POZ, Drummer, and most recently Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation
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lizatblackrose, April 20th, 2010
As one of first cities to be hit hard by AIDS, San Francisco has been a pioneer in responding to the epidemic. In 1983, it opened the world's first dedicated AIDS ward at San Francisco General...
lizatblackrose, December 1st, 2009
Over the course of four decades, HIV has gone from being a near-certain death sentence to a "manageable illness." Treatment has evolved from handfuls of marginally effective tablets and...
lizatblackrose, October 29th, 2009
"For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success," read the September 25, 2009, headline in the New York Times, announcing preliminary findings from a clinical trial in Thailand suggesting...
lizatblackrose, June 27th, 2009
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy
By Savannah Knoop
Seven Stories
$17.95, 223pp.
If you followed the literary, entertainment, and sex scenes over the past decade, you might feel you know...
lizatblackrose, June 26th, 2009
Happy National HIV Testing Day!
A day (June 27) devoted to getting tested for HIV might sound like an odd thing to commemorate, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National...
