Simon Watney News Today

The advent of DoxyPEP, which can drastically reduce the chances of an STI infection, has resurrected tired, old debates around queer promiscuity.

His season marks the 15th anniversary of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, a documentary series dedicated to spotlighting the stories and lives of people from all corners of the African diaspora. AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is a public television show and in its 15th year focuses on Black art, is co-produced and presented by Black Public Media and WORLD Channel´s Youtube channel and the series is distributed and co-presented by American Public Television.

Very Private: A new exhibition at Charleston House in Sussex presents a series of erotic drawings by Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant alongside new work by six artists including Tim Walker, Ajamu X and Somaya Critchlow

LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, a group of LGBT+ campaigners marched from London's Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park to protest against discrimination and fight for acceptance in the city's first ever Pride rally.

By Lucy Marks LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, a group of LGBT+ campaigners marched from London's Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park to protest against ...

By Lucy Marks LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, a group of LGBT+ campaigners marched from London's Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park to protest against ...

The death of the great queer theorist means the end of an era.

Forty years ago, the UK found itself in the grip of a virus that killed thousands of people and sparked fear, confusion and prejudice – HIV. Janet Weston explores the Aids crisis as it unfolded throughout the 1980s, and how it transformed attitudes about everything from sexuality to healthcare

Joseph Sonnabend, Brilliant Early AIDS Doctor, Would Treat Patients for Free Feb. 3, 2021 Simon Watney When it comes to legendary HIV/AIDS doctors, there are the big celebrated names, like Anthony Fauci, M.D., David Ho, M.D., and Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. And then there’s Joseph Sonnabend, M.D., a gay South African who left medical research work in London in the 1970s to treat sexually transmitted diseases in New York City gay men. He ended up becoming one of the city’s most important early trea...

Pioneering South African AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend dies at 88 (Photo Credit: Simon Watney, Kent, UK via Facebook) LONDON, UK – Pioneering AIDS researcher and clinician Joseph Sonnabend, 88, died January 24, 2021 at London’s famed Wellington Hospital after suffering a heart attack on January 3, 2021.   Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a physician mother and university professor father, Joseph Adolph Sonnabend grew up in Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).  He...