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Virally Suppressed is a progressive blog and outreach movement centered around matters of HIV & social justice in America and across the globe.

• We Must Always Be With You: The Need For Interfaith Solidarity in Trump’s America

  By Drew Gibson on January 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Reposted from the Shoulder To Shoulder Campaign ——– Among the many gifts with which humanity has been imbued, none are as worthy of our awe and gratitude as the seemingly boundless capacity with which man, woman and child can adapt… Read More ›

• What Do We Tell Our Children? Explaining The Ray Tensing Mistrial

  By Drew Gibson on November 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The recent mistrial in the case against former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing for the murder of Sam Dubose is certainly not the first instance of a grave miscarriage of justice involving the shooting of an unarmed, noncombative… Read More ›

• The End of Our Beginning: Trumpism Beyond The Election

  By Drew Gibson on November 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Evil like this doesn’t just go away. Evil like this has roots. Deep and gnarled ones. The sorts of roots so thick they look like lymphedemic legs swole up with fluid and turgid tissue. Roots grown fat from 400 years… Read More ›

• “Will You Please Stop Saying That Word”: Why “Grab Them By The Pussy” Will End Trump’s Campaign

  By Drew Gibson on October 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Why now? Why, after a well documented career of chauvinism, misogyny, lewdness, infidelity and sexual harassment lawsuits has the unearthing of Trump talking glibly to a feckless TV personality about sexually assault women finally started the chain reactions of Republican… Read More ›

• Derelict In Their Duty: The Media’s Role In The Rise Of Trump

  By Drew Gibson on October 2, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Nothing but wires and lights in a box…that was the prognosis given to television broadcasting in a speech by Edward R. Murrow 58 years ago unless the medium forgave the wiggling lure of profit for the yeoman’s work of informing… Read More ›

• Notable Only In Its Absence: Third Party Presidential Candidates Nonexistent HIV Policies

  By Drew Gibson on September 12, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  In a presidential election characterized by dissatisfaction with the status quo, why are third party candidates silent on HIV? ——– What is the victory of a third party candidate in a presidential election? Surely, the simplest answer is that victory… Read More ›

• Is This How Republics End? What America Can Learn From Germany in the 1930s

  By Drew Gibson on August 11, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  On the corner of Lombard and Gay streets in downtown Baltimore, sandwiched between the touristy glitz of the Inner Harbor and the corridor of fleshy iniquities that is The Block, sits the Baltimore Holocaust Memorial. Every day, tens of thousands… Read More ›

• Wetting His Dog Whistle: Donald Trump Jr. On The Campaign Trail In Mississippi

  By Drew Gibson on July 31, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s time we talked about Philadelphia. Not the Philadelphia in Pennsylvania where the Democratic Party largely avoided a schism within their ranks and affirmed their place as the only one of the two major political parties to have even a… Read More ›

• Stronger Together? Hillary & The Democrats Think So

  By Drew Gibson on July 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  For as long as I can remember, the Republican Party has always laid claim to the mantel of being the party of morality and that vast assortment of social mores that constitute “traditional American values.” To be sure, they weren’t… Read More ›

• Extremism Begets Extremism: Why The GOP’s Fear Mongering Around Terrorism Makes Everyone Less Safe

  By Drew Gibson on July 21, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  Against my better judgement, and any consideration of my mental wellbeing, I have watched virtually every minute of this year’s Republican National Convention.What I have seen has not disappointed so far as spectacle is concerned, but has managed to calcify… Read More ›