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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.

• Poetic License With America

  By Drew Gibson on April 13, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Hope is a thing tarred and feathered— Propped up and perfumed and paraded in front of us As a testament to the everlasting glory promised us In our star-spangled youth. Our American Dream lies bubbling on the cracking asphalt, Having… Read More ›

• Manipulating Greatness: 42 & the Integration Sub-Genre in American Sports Films

  By Drew Gibson on April 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This Friday will see the release of 42, the latest in what looks to be Hollywood’s cloying habit of turning seminal moments in the racial integration of American sport into hackneyed, overly-sentimental moneymakers. That 42 is the story of Jackie… Read More ›

• Requiem for a Democratic Dream

  By Drew Gibson on April 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Don’t talk to me about American Dreams when you know I don’t sleep. Don’t fill my middle class mind with middle class lies and promise me middle class jobs that have moved away and will never return. Sew your star-spangled… Read More ›

• Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite…Or Not: Monday’s News Round-Up

  By Drew Gibson on March 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  For those who have been preoccupied with a Office of Congressional Ethics investigation examining the alleged misuse of your campaign funds or with facilitating pro-NRA robo-calls to the residents of Newtown, CT, here is some of the more bizarre news… Read More ›

• The Link Between Glaciers & Rape in Steubenville, Ohio

  By Drew Gibson on March 22, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Commentary is worth very little without context. More often than not, merely asking the how and the why of a given event is insufficient to understanding anything beyond a two dimensional facsimile of what took place. In order to mine… Read More ›

• An HIV Positive Child & The Miracle That Wasn’t

  By Drew Gibson on March 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Defenestration—it is one of the finest words in the English language and, not coincidentally, one with some of the greatest comedic potential. For anyone unfamiliar with this fabulous word, the dictionary definition of defenestration is the act of throwing someone… Read More ›

• A Place Without Presidents or Political Parties

  By Drew Gibson on March 13, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  The beginning of my political career was as inauspicious as it was suspect. It was the summer of 2004. I was seventeen, I was strapped for cash and I had yet to learn that any job listing posted in the… Read More ›

• Computers For Elephants

  By Drew Gibson on March 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Since the ignominious departure of George W. Bush in 2008, the Republican Party has taken on the look of recently divorced man thrust back into the dating scene after a decade long hiatus. The Grand Old Party has lost whatever… Read More ›

• When Will Equal Actually Mean Equal in Mental Health Care?

  By Drew Gibson on March 8, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  A man sits in a doctor’s office, three year old copy Sports Illustrated in hand, waiting for his cardiologist to come in and let him know how the results of his EKG. The guy is only 57, but his dad… Read More ›

• Sequester This

  By Drew Gibson on March 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell said that while he wasn’t a manual laborer of any sort, he figured he could pass for a poor gardener or a “tenth-rate farm hand” if he had to. But, while he… Read More ›