Subject: Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Get Tested

  June 22, 2006

• Street Sense

  May 3, 2001

• Herbs and the Fountain of Youth

  I have friends who are always pressing old cookbooks upon me as gifts. "You can never have too many cookbooks," says Bernita, who found this little treasure -- a pamphlet, really -- in some dusty old thrift store. Actually, you can have too many cookbooks and I have to occasionally weed out my groaning bookshelves and give away some of my collection. But I'm particularly fond of Herbs and the Fountain of Youth by Claudia V. James, an authoress who apparently never wrote anything after

  January 29, 2009

• Boy Luck Club

  February 12, 2004

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: preventing violence through vagina appreciation, partying like (and for) an animal and queering conventional wisdom: a dollar in the bra of a drag queen is worth two in the coffers of AIDS Walk.

  February 23, 2009

• Dog Days

  July 8, 2004

• Best Acquisition

  October 7, 2004

• AIDS Walk goes to India

  Erin Goodyear had a conflict. The captain of Kansas City's AIDS Walk Team was going to be out of the country for this year's AIDS Walk Kansas City event -- Saturday, April 25 at Theis Park. Not walking wasn't an option. So Goodyear decided to take AIDS Walk to India. But before she goes, Goodyear's getting a Bollywood-themed send-off thrown in her honor at Cafe Trio, 3535 Broadway, from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight. Cafe Trio will show Bollywood films, hand out awards for the best costumes and swap "Red

  April 13, 2009

• When it comes to HIV protection, La Super X radio personality Mario Canedo knows how to make people listen

  February 12, 2009

• vamp for the cure

  November 20, 2008

• Name that Tunemaker

  November 20, 2008

• Wrap It, Grandpa

  The Greatest Generation is Kansas City’s newest high-risk group for HIV.

  October 23, 2008

• Get Tested

  April 16, 2009

• As Kansas City’s HIV infection rate rivals Africa’s, some black ministers admit that silence equals death

  May 29, 2008

• Think of the Children

  April 24, 2008

• Clothes for a Cause

  April 10, 2008

• Confront the Gong

  April 10, 2008

• Walk the Walk

  January 17, 2008

• Bacon Shoe

  December 20, 2007

• Memorial Flickers

  November 29, 2007

• Beyond the Music

  November 22, 2007

• No Juice Boxing

  October 4, 2007

• Jack This

  Here’s a new plan for the next time you break into my ride.

  September 6, 2007

• Eyes Wide Open

  May 10, 2007

• Into Africa

  March 15, 2007

• Mars Attacks

  October 12, 2006

• Kill Phil

  January 19, 2006

• On the Line

  April 23, 2009

• Walk for Hope

  April 23, 2009

• Memento Mott-Ly

  April 23, 2009

• Rough and Tough

  These ladies aren’t afraid to get down and dirty.

  April 14, 2005

• U.S.A-holes

  Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words.

  October 14, 2004

• Walk This Way

  This Year's AIDS Walk

  April 29, 2004

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  March 18, 2004

• On the Trail

  Bikers enjoy Missouri scenery -- for a good cause.

  October 2, 2003

• A Nasty Rumor

  The African-American AIDS Project gets stripped of its funds.

  April 24, 2003

• Closer Inspection

  A big week for film starts with A Closer Walk.

  March 27, 2003

• Out and About

  Mark Signorile brings gay consciousness to the Midwest.

  October 24, 2002

• Plea for Peace/Take Action tour

  Saturday, September 28, at the Beaumont Club.

  September 26, 2002

• Smoke Screen

  A poor, rockin' drag queen is just one of the characters found at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.

  April 5, 2001

• Dying for Dollars

  Kansas City still can't get its AIDS funding straight.

  November 16, 2000

• Grim, Hopeless, and Wildly Funny

  Marvin's Room is as funny as a play about terminal illness can be.

  August 24, 2000

• Talking Circle brings 'two-spirited' Native Americans together

  February 10, 2000

• Wrap it up, KC. Men's Health gives KC a D- for STDs

  This is bad, bad news. Men's Health ranked the sexual health of 101 cities -- looking at reports of gonorrhea, syphillis and chlamydia to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as county data on HIV mortality rates -- and Kansas City finished an extremely sorry 82nd place (and under the heading "taking your chances") with a D- grade. Ouch. Even worse, Las Vegas ranked as a safer city to get laid in than KC. Remember, you can look up (and submit) infected people on STDCarriers.com

  May 26, 2009

• Wrap it up, KC, part II

  No wonder Men's Health gave Kansas City a D- for STDs. Jackson County has a higher rate of AIDS and HIV than most of the country. Jackson County's rate of AIDS is bigger than 81.6 percent of the counties in the nation. JaCo also has a higher rate of HIV than 92.5 percent of the country. That's what Danny O'Farrell of the National HIV/AIDS Atlas told KSHB Channel 41.  The National HIV/AIDS Atlas charts AIDS and HIV rates by age, gender and race/ethnicity in every county in the country. JaCo

  June 23, 2009

• Still time to get a free HIV/STD test

  If you're woeful behind on getting an HIV/STD test, Kansas City's Health Department is offering free, confidential testing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday to honor National HIV Testing Day, which is actually Saturday. So if you're wondering what that sore is, go get it checked out at the Health Department Atrium, 2400 Troost Ave. They'll fix you up -- and also test you for gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis, too. If today's no good, the Health Department also offers free test Monday through Wednesd

  June 26, 2009

• Yet another tool to measure Jackson County's nightmarish HIV rate

  If you're interested in how bad the HIV rate is in KC - and it's pretty fucking bad, let me tell you - there's a new tool online to help you compare. Last week the National HIV/AIDS Atlas was launched as a sort of relief map of suffering. The atlas shows counties in different hues from yellow to red to measure how bad the HIV/AIDS infection rate is. It's supposedly the first map of its kind to let users examine the data all over the United States. The techonolog is cool and all, but it suck

  June 30, 2009

• The Kansas Board of Health and the greatest sex ed video ever made

  We'd like to leave you today with a little information to protect yourselves as you head for the weekend. Maybe you're out and you've had a few and you meet a pretty girl or a cute boy and you think, "Hey, what the hell? I'm only young once." Well stop! This video, made by the Kansas Board of Health, follows the tragic story of two young lovers who, after having what looks like the worst sex ever, discover they might have syphilis. Here are a few representative quotes. "I've got some s

  August 6, 2009

• Mario Canedo organizes KC's first Latino Gay Pride festival

  Camp KC has a cool story about local radio personality and HIV/AIDS outreach worker Mario Canedo organizing the metro's first Latino Gay Pride event Saturday, Sept. 12, in Hyde Park. The free event is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 7 pm.  and feature soccer and volleyball, music, and discussions and education on LGBT issues. If you have a chance, you should check it out. I wrote a profile of Canedo for this year's Sex Issue. Besides talking about adult issues on his La Super X radio s

  September 3, 2009

• Freedom Players

  November 5, 2009