What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me? I have never heard of the Banyan Tree Project nor National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which falls next month on May 19. Each year A&PI Awareness day is sponsored by Banyan Tree Project. National Asian Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness [...]
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What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me?
Posted: April 6, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, ally, Cascade AIDS Project, CHATpdx, Educational, Ernesto, Facebook, HIV, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Latex, NLAAD, Oregon, Sex, STD, STDs, Stigma, Testing, Youth
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Let’s make (our relationships) better!
Posted: January 20, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: 2012, CHATpdx, Communication, date, Ernesto Dominguez, How to find love, how to keep love, hugs, kiss, Love, lucky, Make love, New Year, Relationships, Sex, television, What is love
Let’s make (our relationships) better! Every year we all sit around the television, watch the countdown and at the stroke of midnight (if we’re lucky) someone attractive next to us will give us a huge kiss. Apart from Valentine’s Day, I would say this is the day I see the most people smooching at the [...]
The role of “men” in preventing HPV related cervical cancer!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Boys, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Family, Females, Gardasil, Genital Warts, Girls, HPV, hpv types, hpv vaccines, Human Papillomavirus, human papillomavirus hpv, infertility in women, kids, kits, Latino, Males, Mothers, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Oregon, Sex, sexual health services, Sisters, STD, STI, Stigma, Testing, Vaccine, vaginal cancer, Youth
(Photo Credit Gardasil) This blog was originally posted on CHATpdx.org as a program of CHATpdx For more information check out: Our Facebook Page In the US, it’s estimated that a majority (75%-80%) of men and women will be infected with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). With about 6 million new cases of genital HPV every year [...]
World AIDS Day 2011!
Posted: November 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: 33.3 million, AIDS, CHAT, CHAT room, CHATpdx, Condom, DEC 1st, Ernesto, Facebook, Growing, HIV, Lube, Sex, Super Bowl Sunday, WE, World AIDS Day, Youth
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 27 years. Most of today’s youth have never known a world without it. As CHATpdx (a coalition of organizations that are working [...]
Why Gender Neutral Bathrooms Should Matter To You.
Posted: July 13, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Ally McBeal, bathrooms, Ernesto, Ernesto Dominguez, Gender, Gender Neutral, iPhone, LGBT, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, New York, Pee, Queer, Restroom, Safe2pee, Sex, Transgender, University of Chicago
“…when they willfully ignore the concerns of LGBT people, they not only limit opportunities for these individuals, but also stifle our community as a whole. In the end, it is the community that loses, as dynamic, intelligent, and highly skilled people move on to places that value and respect them.” –National Gay and Lesbian [...]
It’s My Body, Not Yours!
Posted: January 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: AMA, bilateral mastectomy, breasts, cis, Gender, Hormones, Sex, Suicide, Top Surgery, trans, Transgender
If a trans friend or family member ever tells you that they have decided to start hormones or have surgery and it’s something you would never choose to do yourself, please remember that it has absolutely nothing to do with your appearance or body or gender identity, regardless of what your gender identity or expression [...]
Cheating…the Cruelest Act or a Part of Life?
Posted: December 27, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Cheat, Cheating, Forgiveness, Hooking up, Pre-Cheating, Relationships, Sex, Trust
This blog post is meant to help deflate and hopefully answer some of the tricky questions surrounding cheating. Now for those who might be a little lost, I am not talking about cheating as in the “hiding an ace in your sleeve”, or “having insider information.” I am talking about relationships and my views around the [...]
Privilege? What’s that supposed to mean?
Posted: December 3, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Activists, Age, Citizen, Egalitarian, Gender, Homeless, Oppression, Peggy McIntosh, People of Color, Privilege, Queer, Race, Sex, STI, United States, White person
As a young white person involved in the activist community I have talked a lot about the word “privilege” and what it means. To me privilege is a word I use to describe unearned benefits given to me by societies and institutions and individuals that I interact with-in the United States. For instance, I am [...]
Oral Sex Part Deuce: Different parts require different arts.
Posted: November 20, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Anal, Anus, Art of Rimming, Blood, Butt, Condoms, Deep Throating, Ejaculate, Fluids, Hand, harmonica method, Head, Herpes, HIV, Latex, Licking, Mouth, Oral sex, Oregon AIDS Hotline, Penis, pre cum, Rimming, Semen, Sex, STD, Sucking, USA, Vagina, Viruses
Using your head when giving head: Let’s talk blow jobs. This is the mouth on penis action. If you want to eliminate any possible risk of STDs then use a polyurethane, polyisoprene, or latex condom. Don’t like the taste of condoms? Fear not, there are condoms that come in different flavors! OK, OK… I can [...]
