Juan Michael Porter II

When I think about the number of women I've called auntie or my "aunt" who have no blood relationship to me....

Seeing it Thursday! So excited!

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century - The Boston Globe An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Here you go!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/n...

Great article by Gus Cairns. A major point here is that people are not being diagnosed: It's thought that 43%-50% of Europeans w transmissible HIV are undiagnosed.

Meanwhile, Russia remains the largest driver of HIV within eastern Europe. Why? Putin downplays HIV & his attitude has infected others.

Gay Sex Rumors Aside, Lindsey Graham’s LGBTQ Record Is a Flaming Trash Dumpster Gay Sex Rumors Aside, Lindsey Graham’s LGBTQ Record Is a Flaming Trash Dumpster. Juan Michael Porter II.

Lately, pundits have gone back to joking about Lindsey Graham's sexuality. What irks me most about these comments is that they miss the point:

We should taunt man for his barbaric record against historically marginalized communities. Not because of who he might be.
www.thebody.com/article/lind...

Yesterday was a busy day in the STI clinic, but one of my last patients had reported pain during sex. Turns out they had trich, but the more important discussion was what happened when they disclosed to their partner their discomfort, the partner ignored my pt. This is not ok…

We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind.

Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.

HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis.

Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.

Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding

Because HIV disproportionately harms Black people, we've gone from picking cotton in fields to picking pills out of bottles as a cash crop for pharmaceutical companies, which use our blood as collateral to enrich their coffers.

Things can be different:
www.thebody.com/article/soli...

TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator!

Register at:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV

Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.

Transfer switches take up space at One Wilshire, a high-rise office building almost entirely converted into a server farm or data center in downtown Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2024. Photo by Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images HED: California lawmakers wanted to get tough on data centers. Here’s what survived

California lawmakers started the year signaling they were ready to get tough on data centers, aiming to protect the environment and electricity ratepayers. Nine months later, they have little to show for it. https://cal.news/4pGZ43s

📷 Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Making fun of the current president may feel good but it is not activism. Rather, if it's the only way that you're activating, I think you can follow up with something more effective.

People Living With HIV Need:

Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.

We’re people first; just like you.

Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma

I'm grateful to everyone who fought so that people living with HIV could survive. And though it might be easier to run away, I will continue to fight for liberation in their names.

It's the only way any of us will have a chance to live, dance, & thrive.
#JMPII

It's National Dance Day in the States.

Celebrate as you will―even if you're in a tiny space that limits your movement. Even if your body is limited in what it can do.

Just #dance, for the sake of dancing.

When I was young, I didn't understand the myth of Cassandra because to my young brain, if someone was telling you that disaster was coming, the adults would want to change it. I miss being that naive. And of course no one listened to Cassandra, she's a woman.

Let's invest our energy in liberating our communities and avoid cultivating our minds for white supremacy.

AKA: If all you're doing is talking about white supremacy, you're not doing anything for the people who rely on you for safety, comfort, & love. Water the flowers instead of the weeds.

The proper terms is serodifferent.

Thank you, dear! It's been wonderful! AND I hope you have a holiday in your near future. You and your team are doing incredible work, which means you should have time to recharge <3

I'll be in Korea for the next two weeks. My responsiveness is slower than usual. But if you know how to send a punk, queer, trans owl ― you can definitely reach me.

Meanwhile, get your legs up, put a ring on it, and smile.

I spoke to the CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI Clinical Trials Research about continuing the mission to contain #HIV, even without PEPFAR or support from the U.S.

www.ctnplus.ca/news/picking...

The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV.

People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...

For decades.

"I am the problem, but I am also the solution."

Today, the Caucus is joining an action to #SaveHIVFunding w our peers where we unveil the #CutsKill AIDS Quilt Unveiled on Capitol Hill lawn.

It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!

I keep getting stares because of my shirt.

I guess people need a reminder that #HIV Is Not a Crime.

Thank you SERO Project for the shirt and for empowering us all to share this message.
#NoHIVStigma

Book club?

It's such a distraction and... let's keep the momentum going. Not get bogged down in acting like fans.

We can applaud Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, for leaving CDC and excoriating its current misinformation agenda without deifying him.