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Ryan is the Digital Director of The Advocate Channel, and a graduate of NYU Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing. She is also a member of GALECA, the LGBTQ+ society of entertainment critics. While her specialties are television writing and comedy, Ryan is a young member of the LGBTQ+ community passionate about politics and advocating for all.
Evidence used in his case was collected by a state health department after the practice was officially discontinued and it likely violated his right against self incrimination.
Mark was preparing to meet with detectives in Chicago over allegations he failed to disclose his alleged HIV-positive status to a partner, but cops didn't want to wait for him to show up with his attorney so they sent in the Fugitive Apprehension Team to detain and jail him for 48 hours.
My campaign is about showing people that living with HIV in 2014 is not a death sentence. It is not something I am ashamed of, nor something I will back away from. It is part of who I am, and part of the unique life experience that makes me who I am — and makes me qualified to represent the whole community.
In September 2012, Cicely Bolden's young children came home from school to find their mother stabbed to death. For the first time, the interview and confession of Larry Dunn, who was convicted of her murder and sent to prison, is available for all to hear his explanation of that fateful day.
The chance that Larry Dunn would get HIV from Cicely Bolden via vaginal penetration is slim: four in 10,000. But with misinformation and stigma around HIV, he thought he was dying. Here's what the experts are saying about Larry Dunn's murder confession and why matters to anyone who cares about HIV.
In September 2012, Cicely Bolden's young children came home from school to find their mother stabbed to death. Before he confessed, blaming her HIV status on the crime, her killer stopped to pray.
The interview and confession of Larry Dunn, who was convicted of her murder and sent to prison, is available for all to hear his explanation of that fateful day.
Cicely Bolden's killer denied his involvement in her death for many hours. This is the third video of his interrogation.
In 2012, Cicely Bolden's body was discovered by her two young children. The killer: Larry Dunn, Bolden's married lover. HIV Plus is publishing, for the first time ever, the full interview and confession by Dunn to Dallas police officials.
Many of us living with HIV struggle to make ends meet, and may need to ask utilities for assistance in payment plans and avoidance of shut off. But what if the utility asks you to provide medical documentation of your disability?
Equality California says ending the ban on blood donations by gay men is a 'priority,' but is the ban discrimination, as the group calls it?
New study from Brown University finds gay and bi men and trans women in relationships with other men forgo condoms to "preserve intimacy."
After nearly five percent of 6th to 12th grade students became pregnant in the last year, the school board in Gervais, Oregon decides condoms are the answer.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has launched a new advertising campaign against PrEP in 11 print publications in California and Florida.
In startling new study from MAC AIDS Fund, teens report being unaware HIV is a sexually transmitted infection. Worse? Nearly 90 percent of American teens don't see themselves at risk for HIV infection.
The state health agency will pay for the prevention pill if it's prescribed to a Medicaid patient, but won't issue guidance to physicians explaining the intervention.
Prosecutors say a document signed by Michael Johnson in January 2013 is their smoking gun to put the 23-year-old in prison. But investigation by HIV Plus shows the document is not sanctioned by the state, and may violate a 2011 directive on such documents and their use.
The racist rants of Donald Sterling earlier this year reveal they are informed, at least in part, by HIV stigma
With HIV continuing, in the US, to disproportionately impact gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men as well as transwomen, Michigan's Between The Lines newspaper decided to launch it's own HIV testing and prevention initiative. Here's why we did it.
Thirty years ago, US government officials announced the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
