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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.

• If Anyone’s Gonna Be Fraudulent Around Here, It’s Gonna Be Us

  By Drew Gibson on August 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›

• Sister Activists

  By Drew Gibson on August 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Most of us have a preconceived image of what a “radical” looks like, especially when used within the spectrum of political discourse. If you’re employed by Roger Ailes, what comes to mind is probably something like the protest scene in… Read More ›

• Land of 10,000 Lakes & Deranged Politicians

  By Drew Gibson on August 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Like CNN & Fox News covering a landmark healthcare ruling, I may have jumped the gun on a political verdict I put down earlier this week. In my article on Pleasantville extra and mutant Reaganite Paul Ryan’s bid for the… Read More ›

• A Cure or Some Cash?

  By Drew Gibson on August 15, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  There is always a point in researching any highly specialized subject when the documents you are reading stop being written in English. It doesn’t matter what the field is—biomedical research, law, literary criticism—there is a line in the sand that… Read More ›

• Paul Ryan & The Not-So-Great Society

  By Drew Gibson on August 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson If there’s one thing you could always count on from ole LBJ it was a Texas sized portion of folksy… Read More ›

• Test and Treat…And Then What?

  By Drew Gibson on August 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The only way we get through life with any semblance of sanity is through compartmentalization. Everyone of us has hundreds of different spheres and categories into which we make sense of our lives. Each weekday morning, most of us leave… Read More ›

• A Hate Crime in a Loving Place

  By Drew Gibson on August 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Is now a good time? Just three weeks ago, after a deranged twenty-something unloaded an AR-15 assault rifle into a crowd at a showing of the latest Batman film, the debate on gun control was pretty much dead on arrival…. Read More ›

• The Hidden Costs of PEPFAR

  By Drew Gibson on August 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As was evidenced by his absence at the International AIDS Conference last week, President Obama is not currying much favor with the HIV community at the moment. Despite creating the first National HIV/AIDS Strategy in our nation’s history, he hasn’t… Read More ›

• Gore (Vidal) v. Bush League

  By Drew Gibson on August 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes,… Read More ›

• In Need of Healthcare Solutions, Mississippi looks to the (Middle) East

  By Drew Gibson on July 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  “Alabama’s gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam”  –  Nina Simone A few weeks ago I found myself having drinks with a perfectly nice woman in one of those “mixology” bars… Read More ›