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AIDS2016: The Full Video Collection from My Fabulous Disease
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
The people, the parties, the protests! AIDS2016, the international AIDS conference held in Durban, South Africa from July 16-22, had it all. And it was my privilege to bring you the stunning sights and sounds of the gathering, sponsored by The Global Forum of MSM and HIV. My special thanks, too, to my amazing videographer, Australian HIV advocate Theo Tsipiras.
My coverage was featured on the most comprehensive HIV resource on the net, TheBody.com (you can also view my full set of videos there), as well as on MSMGF.org and even on Queerty.com, the world's largest pop culture site for gay men.
So here they are, each of the five video blogs I produced at AIDS2016, below.
Allow me to let these videos, and the inspiring people from around the world who populate them, to speak for themselves. Enjoy!
The MSMGF Pre-Conference (Gay Day!)
The MSMGF pre-conference is uniquely designed to address the issues and needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) around the world.
The Thrilling Treatment Access March on the Streets of Durban
The may be no way to adequately describe the intensity of the #Treatment4All march that wound its way through the streets of Durban. Fortunately, my videographer Theo and I dropped ourselves into the middle of the action. The results are amazing.
BONUS Video: An Interview with PrEP Advocate Jim Pickett
An HIV+ Gay Man is Erased by the Military and a Plenary Protest
The advocacy around HIV criminalization has grown enormously is just the last two years. I take you to the Beyond Blame pre-conference, and then jump into a demonstration by criminalization activists at an AIDS2016 plenary – which included the newly minted activists and grandchildren of icon Elizabeth Taylor, working on behalf of the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
Also: a very candid gay activist from New Zealand confides with me about just how cruisy the conference is for he and his fellow advocates. Hint: activists ready to hook up are less than 20 feet away.
The Eye-Popping Global Village and a Party Without Pants
In my final report from AIDS2016, we immerse ourselves in the sights and awesome advocates of the Global Village – and then let off some steam at "No Pants, No Problem," a dance party like nothing else on the planet.
Thanks for watching, and for your lovely messages of support throughout this conference. It means the world to me. And now, let the anticipation begin for AIDS2018 in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, y'all. Can you imagine?
Tags: advocacy, Aging, aids, barebacking, conferences, criminalization, culture, gay, gratitude, help others, hiv, meth, physical, physician, politics, PrEP, recovery, Recreation, research, serosorting, Sexuality, stigma, testing
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Follow My Blogs from AIDS2016 in Durban South Africa!
Monday, July 18th, 2016
(UPDATE: See all of my video blogs from AIDS2016 right here.)
Conference coverage might just be the most enjoyable aspect of blogging for me. There's nothing like capturing a protest breaking out, or the emotions of advocates from struggling countries, or a drag queen on stilts handing out condoms. I've never met an eye-boggling sight that I didn't love – and put on camera.
My coverage of the international AIDS conference (AIDS2016) in Durban, South Africa is happening right now. I am in Durban, scurrying about the conference with other advocates from around the globe, and my primary purpose is to give you the feeling that you are right there at my side.
My AIDS2016 coverage is sponsored by MSMGF.org.
This year I am proud to be sponsored by The Global Forum of MSM and HIV (MSMGF). My coverage can be viewed on the site that birthed my own blog, TheBody.com, and at MSMGF.org. Queerty will step also step in and feature at least one of my video reports.
My coverage can also be viewed right here on TheBody.com.
My Australian camera man Theo Tsipiras and I will capture the human stories that make the conference so compelling. That isn't to say we won't include breaking stories about research. I have no problem rushing a scientist and getting him to explain the latest news to me. I just want to be sure he does it in a way that makes sense to everyone back home.
I will admit to it being exhausting. We're filming morning to evening every day, and then I'm editing footage all night to produce the video for the day. It's a diet of pure adrenaline. But how can I not do this? What a joy and a privilege it is for me to be active and engaged, after so many years, and bringing these people and their stories to life.
Thanks for checking out my video coverage at the links above, and please be well.
Tags: advocacy, aids, conferences, criminalization, culture, gay, help others, hiv, physical, physician, politics, PrEP, research, serosorting, Sexuality, stigma, testing
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Gay Collective: "The Virus Divides. It Doesn't Have To."
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
In a cramped meeting room in New York City on May 27, 2016, a dozen gay men, HIV positive and negative alike, came together to answer a vexing question: How do gay men bridge a divide that has been forged through decades of HIV stigma, distrust, and mutual blame? Or, at the very least, what might be done to start a conversation about the divide and begin to heal the wounds?
Convened by Avram Finkelstein, the HIV-negative artist and HIV activist who was part of the collective that created the iconic SILENCE=DEATH artwork in the 1980s, and Mark S. King, the HIV-positive blogger and advocate, the Viral Divide Flash Collective sought to begin a difficult conversation and find a graphic way to present it. The collective was sponsored by Visual AIDS and made possible through funding from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and GMHC.
A "flash collective" is an exercise in artistic advocacy involving group facilitation and the common pursuit of a graphic message to communicate a concept for the public sphere. In other words, the gathering of gay men had mere hours to discuss the HIV viral divide, vent their frustrations about their lives and each other, and then find common ground. It was, in a word, intense.
Before the group even finished consuming their breakfast bagels, the walls of the room were covered in reams of butcher paper scrawled with the frustrations and issues viewed as crucial to members of the collective.
Important topics were raised, such as race, privilege, and the science driving the new HIV landscape. Again and again, the group talked through these concerns and then returned to their primary purpose of crafting a message about the viral divide among gay men.
"This message is the first sentence in a conversation," Avram Finkelstein reminded the collective throughout the day. "It does not have to tell the entire story. It is meant as the starting point for important conversations."
The result, HIV ÷, features the tagline, "The virus divides. It doesn't have to. No walls between gay men." The graphic image includes an animation that outlines the various ways in which the divide affects gay men: age, joy, relationships, sex, race, and love.
And the graphic image has an impressive coming out party on the way. It will be projected onto the façade of the Bronx Museum on July 13, 2016, as part of the opening of ART AIDS AMERICA, a retrospective of AIDS-related art through the years. The Illuminators, most widely known for their work projecting graphic messages on the New York City skyscape on behalf of Occupy Wall Street, will coordinate the projection. The work of the Viral Divide Flash Collective is viewed by the museum as the very latest in a history of AIDS artwork that dates back more than thirty years.
The Viral Divide Flash Collective has set up a Tumblr page featuring the final artwork and of the collective's day together. Photos of the projection onto the Bronx Museum will be added after the event on July 13. Anyone is welcome to post their thoughts on the Tumblr page or to share the images on social media.
The HIV ÷ message comes just as gay men are grappling with a host of new scientific realities that are altering the social landscape.
The increased adoption of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has re-energized activists and provided a way for HIV negative gay men to participate fully in their own HIV prevention.
Meanwhile, research has definitively shown that people living with HIV who are on treatment and maintain an undetectable viral load are uninfectious. A new group, Prevention Access Campaign, is aggressively promoting the scientific evidence that undetectable people living with HIV cannot pass on the virus.
Online dating apps, where divisions between HIV positive and negative gay men have been most prominently on display, have now incorporated profile choices that include being on PrEP or being HIV positive and undetectable. So there is movement afoot, even as HIV stigma remains a stubborn roadblock to bridging the viral divide.
It would appear that now, more than ever, gay men can relieve themselves of the social walls that have divided them along the lines of their sero status. The HIV ÷ graphic message is only a small part of multiple efforts to repair relationships among two factions of gay men that have often been at odds with one another.
After so many years of mortal fear, irrational and otherwise, bridging the viral divide will surely be easier said than done. The members of the Viral Divide Flash Collective have started an important conversation. It will be up to countless others to continue it.
I could not be more excited about returning to the international AIDS conference next week. AIDS2016 in Durban, South Africa, is sure to offer exactly the kinds of sights, sounds, and people that I love capturing in my video blog coverage. I am proud to have the sponsorship of MSMGF, the global organization working for the health and rights of gay men (men who have sex with men) around the world. Beginning with pre-conferences that begin on July 16, you will be able to follow my coverage on the MSMGF site or by checking in with TheBody.com, the most comprehensive HIV site anywhere. As with my past conference coverage, I leave the research and panels to others, while my trusty camera man Theodore and I train our sights on the colorful people who make this conference like none other. See my teaser video here, and wish me luck!
Tags: advocacy, aids, criminalization, culture, gay, gratitude, help others, hiv, politics, PrEP, Recreation, serosorting, Sexuality, stigma, testing
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My Muscles, My Disease: The Pitfalls of a Meth Addict
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
There is a folder, tucked within a folder, buried deep in my computer files. I shouldn't be looking at its contents, yet I can't bring myself to delete it altogether. It is labeled MARCUS, and inside the folder is my disease.
During my years of crystal meth addiction I went by the name of Marcus, at least to dealers and tricks and fellow addicts. It helped me determine who was calling my cell phone — those calling for Mark or Marcus usually had very different agendas — and Marcus even became an alternate persona as my drug addiction progressed.
When partying as Marcus, I felt confident and aloof. I took awful chances. I never met a strobe light I didn't like or a box on a dance floor I wouldn't jump on. A steroid-crazed gym regimen and the dehydration of drug abuse transformed my body into the low fat, pumped up gay ideal. My body was my currency, traded for sex and drugs.
Photographs of that body, in full, preening strut, are the contents of the MARCUS folder. The pictures were my calling card for drug-fueled pursuits. They suggest nudity but are cropped modestly — although God knows that much more damning images of me surely exist in the dark corners of cyberspace.
In one of the few pictures showing my face, I stand under a running shower — a pitiful Playgirl pose, spray nozzle in hand — with a blank, wet face and shipwrecked eyes. The only emotion on display, just around the edges, is a dull fear.
My life was precisely as pictured. It wouldn't be long before my drug use trumped my gym schedule, and my status in online chat rooms devolved from intriguing hottie to that crazy mess that doesn't look like his pictures.
Since then, my recovery from drug addiction has helped me understand that the Gay Strut is key to my disease. It is a sly porthole back to raging insanity.
Explaining all this feels idiotic. What vanity I possess, asking you to gaze upon my former, overwrought beauty as I complain about the consequences. It feels like an invitation to tell me how much healthier I look now, or that recovery is "an inside job." I know this. I'm just sharing the curious road that got me here.
My recovery depends on healing my mind, body and spirit. At the moment I'm two out of three, even after several years of clean living.
My spirit is happy. My smiles are joyful and plentiful. My mind is clear, although I don't kid myself, there are remnants of a brain pickled in methamphetamine for many years. But healing is underway, and my mind and spirit are enjoying the process.
Only my body lags behind, injured, resentful, and suspicious of the path to well being. I'm sedentary and stubborn. I relate being physically fit with something traumatic that once hounded and eventually ruined me.
I want to be healthier, and to control my weight and rising cholesterol. I need to fix this, I tell myself, but I'm afraid to fix this. There's the potential that I'll go back to a lifestyle more horrible than my expanding waistline.
It's good to get in shape again, I tell myself with sincere intentions. The treadmill is really taking off the pounds and I should start weight lifting again and hot damn, that muscle recall really works just look at my arms and I should buy new tank tops and work out even harder and get steroids prescribed again and what's wrong with hanging out at a bar shirtless and shooting pool and sure I'll do one hit of that, thanks, and man I would look damn hot at a sex party right now and who's your dealer and do you have needles…?
Getting back in shape is an easy call. Except my mind puts physical fitness on the same crazy train as my drug addiction. The fact I acknowledge my insanity is a good start. Now I can begin the process of teaching my body new tricks. When I'm working out, I try to remain in a state of gratitude for my life, for my physical self, and for the fact I no longer have to live as I once did, using my body as currency.
There are traps on the road to recovery, as anyone getting clean and sober will tell you. The vigilance it requires is a full time job. A dangerous choice might look perfectly innocent. It might be a reasonable part of life. It could even be a healthy choice, at least for you.
That's the cunning nature of drug addiction. My very reckoning can look as pretty as a picture.
(The photos above are the only Marcus images that remain, gratefully. This re-post is inspired by my friend Will Armstrong, whom I recently profiled about his addiction and body image. Please note: I always speak generically about my recovery from addiction, and do not publicly promote one model or another. The point is, help is available for the asking.)
Tags: Aging, culture, gay, gratitude, hiv, meth, recovery, Recreation, Sexuality
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There's More Room in a Broken Heart
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
There's more room in a broken heart.
— Carly Simon, "Coming Around Again"
When Will Armstrong emerges from heart surgery in just a few days, he will have weeks of hospitalization ahead. He will also have expensive new hardware in his chest and a devoted animal waiting anxiously at home.
What he will not have is a pulse.
Will, a 44-year-old living in Atlanta, is having a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implanted, and it will push the blood flow through his heart so smoothly that the throb of a pulse will be virtually nonexistent. Unlike a pacemaker, the LVAD needs electricity to function, provided by a battery pack to be carried by Will at all times. With an extra battery always on hand. And a couple more charging at home.
The last year may have been devastating for Will, but the process has had an unexpected effect on his emotional state.
"I'm happier than I was before I got sick," Will says now. Allowing himself to receive the love and support of his wide circle of friends has had an enormous impact. "A lot of people will never know that kind of love while they are alive," Will says. "To be able to know that is an incredible gift."
The bearded weight-lifter has always cut an imposing figure, and he admits he used his physicality as armor while navigating life as a gay man. "I had to project this image," Will says. "It was such a fraud." His intimidating posture kept people at a distance, even as he struggled with life events that called out desperately for support.
Will tested HIV positive twenty years ago. Coming to terms with the stigma attached to the virus is something he managed to resolve some time ago, until he found himself facing another disease that posed a more immediate threat: crystal meth addiction.
Once he began a recovery program for meth addicts, populated largely by other gay men, Will was surprised to learn how many of his fellow addicts were also HIV positive but uncomfortable saying so. "That surprised me," he says, "that people could feel stigmatized for their HIV, even among other gay people in recovery." Will responded by becoming one of the founders of Pozitively Fabulous, an annual retreat weekend for people in recovery living with HIV, now in its fifth year.
As his years of successful recovery passed, however, Will continued to hold tight to his ultra-masculine persona. His social media pages were littered with gym selfies and bicep measurements. It was an unhealthy fixation on self, Will now admits, and it eventually caught up with him.
In May of 2015, after seven years of clean living, Will relapsed on meth for two full weeks.
"I ended up in the emergency room," he says. "I thought I was having panic attacks, but I was in kidney failure. I was in total disbelief when they diagnosed my heart failure. I've never even had high blood pressure."
"It could have been anything, HIV, diet pills, steroids, crystal meth, genetics," Will says. But he knows that, when it comes to addiction, the most obvious answer is usually the right one. "People will sometimes say how ironic it is that I 'escaped drug addiction' and then this happened. No. I didn't escape drug addiction. This is what happened."
What has followed is a year of medical trial and error, as doctors tried to keep Will's heart viable while exploring alternatives. He has been denied a heart transplant due to HIV, and his doctors say there are no heart transplants happening in the United States for people with HIV, anyway (the very few organ transplants that are happening, such as liver transplants, are between HIV positive patients and donors).
"I went through a couple months where I didn't want to live anymore, I was suicidal," Will says. "I didn't want to be here anymore."
And this is where Addie comes in, the "creature more spiritual than anything in my life," says Will.
Addie is the pit bull that is glued to Will's side, constantly vigilant for a hug from him or signs of a treat or a walk. "Addie is the reason I'm still here. I live alone, I'm single, I didn't have a boyfriend or the fabulous life I thought I would have. But Addie forced me to get up every day and take her out. She's the reason I stuck around."
"When I met her at the dog rescue two years ago, they told me she was hard to adopt because she was high strung and not great around kids or dogs." Being a pit bull probably didn't help her chances, either.
It was a match made in shelter heaven. Both Will and Addie might have been outwardly intimidating to others, but what they really needed was some unconditional love. "I connected with her and fell in love," said Will. "When I'm with her, I try to be as happy as she is. She is always right here in the moment, and she believes everything will be okay. She adores me. I've never had this type of relationship with anything."
Will has a team of friends at the ready as he mentally prepares for the five-hour LVAD surgery in a few days, but he wants them to be focused on Addie, who will miss him terribly. "She is too big and hyper to sneak into the hospital to see me," Will said, "but I'll be doing video calls with her."
Will has watched YouTube videos of the surgery ("gruesome stuff") and knows the risks of complications. He understands the LVAD will probably be attached to him for the rest of his life ("batteries are important, but I can plug myself in anywhere, including the car"). Whatever anxiety Will may be experiencing is blanketed by a deep sense of gratitude.
"Today, I look at situations that really should aggravate me, and I'm just not there. All that shit I thought you should think about me doesn't matter. Things like money and romance aren't important to me now, or being super macho so people don't think I have feelings. What is important to me are things I already have."
"My biggest challenges have been readjusting my expectations," Will adds. "Sure, I have a lot of uncertainty in my life, but I've got so much love the last year from my friends and family. And you know what? I allow people to love me. They want to be helpful, and the biggest thing I can do for them is let them love me."
As Will considers his close brush with mortality this year and the recovery process ahead, he sounds like a man who is comfortable, at long last, in his own skin.
"I'm grateful I have been given a year to resolve things, let things go, take care of things," Will says. "If I were to leave this planet, I would be okay with that. I'm okay if it's my time." His affairs are in order, including a new home for his beloved Addie, just in case.
"All that said," Will offers finally, "I don't want to go."
(Will Armstrong's friends have created a GoFundMe page to help him with basic living expenses during this time. Will has been forced to close his computer consulting business as well as the fledgling but enormously popular Burly Bakers, the bakery of his lifelong dreams.)
Tags: advocacy, Aging, gay, gratitude, help others, hiv, meth, physical, physician, recovery, Recreation, Sexuality, stigma
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Reclaiming 'Our Golden Years' as People with HIV
Monday, June 6th, 2016
My friend Olivia G. Ford (she got that whole middle initial thing from me, I'm convinced of it) speaks even faster than I do. That's a rare distinction.
Olivia is also an editor. She was my editor during her years at TheBody.com. I am afraid of editors. They know too much. They might even know I'm not the writer people think I am. Not on the first draft, anyway.
A few months ago, Olivia invited me to join her as the guest editors of a special issue of Positively Aware magazine and the result, "Our Golden Years," explores aging and HIV from the viewpoint of people who are already post-retirement age. (Check out the link to read a digital version, or find a copy at your local HIV clinic or pharmacy.)
In our initial conversations about how to approach the topic of HIV and aging – and let's face it, we've all been seeing it in HIV media a lot in recent years – we hit upon the fact that, while there are so many people post-retirement age who are living with HIV, most stories on HIV and aging tend to focus on "the AIDS generation" preparing to age, rather than those who are already experiencing their advanced years right now.
From our editor's letter in the issue:
We believe that the story of aging and HIV must include people who were in their 30s and beyond when the epidemic began, as well as the newly diagnosed who are already over 50 (who now account for roughly 1 in 6 new HIV cases). Those who have surpassed retirement age have been largely absent from the conversation and media coverage of HIV/AIDS.
The more we considered this, the more we became committed to sharing the stories and lived experience of elder people with HIV for this issue, "Our Golden Years."
The idea of featuring the lived experience of older people with HIV got us excited, and led to some terrific pieces on mental health (written by two therapists and longtime survivors), a conversation between generations of black gay men, women with HIV post-menopause, how to address the needs of transgender women as they age, and a frank and revealing piece on sex and dating in later years.
We were really fortunate to have such talented HIV writers and advocates join us for this issue, including David Duran, Kenyon Farrow, Sharon Lee, Rae Lewis-Thornton, Kellee Terrell, David Alain Wohl, and David Fawcett. The issue was overseen by the dynamic duo from Positively Aware, editor Jeff Berry and creative director Rick Guasco.
More from our editor's letter:
So many cultures throughout human civilization have bestowed great honor and value upon their most senior members. We believe it is inherent upon us all, as people who care deeply about a health crisis that impacts us socially as much as medically, to do the same.
Welcome to our golden years.
Being a part of this collaboration with Olivia was truly a delight, and while it may have demystified the role of an editor for me – I've never done this before – it absolutely increased my respect for Olivia and her talents, and for all those people out there who are conceiving and shaping HIV publications and web sites on a monthly basis.
So, while I'm at it, a shout-out to the late, great Bonnie Goldman, the founding editor of TheBody.com, where My Fabulous Disease was born. And to JD Davids, the scary smart editor there now. And then there is the sly and brilliant Oriol Gutierrez at POZ Magazine (with the amazing Jennifer Morton, their very own wonder woman), the lovely Bob Leahy at PositiveLite in Canada, and the nurturing and insightful talents of Diane Anderson-Minshall at PLUS Magazine. And Chris Bull at Queerty has been a real advocate for informative and challenging HIV content on their site. Editors, editors everywhere!
But don't get me wrong. I'm still afraid of them.
p.s. Check out the digital issue of Positively Aware, look for it at your local clinic or pharmacy, or get your own subscription to the print edition right here.
Tags: Aging, aids, culture, hiv, lipo, physical, physician, Sexuality, stigma
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Surviving Life Itself: Reflections of a Longtime Survivor
Sunday, June 5th, 2016
The young woman sitting across from me on the bus is in her mid-20s. She turns to her companion and her voice grows serious.
"I know someone who died," she says in the hushed tone reserved for tales of mortality. Her friend looks up from his phone. "He was a good friend of my brother," she goes on. "He was killed in a motorcycle accident a few months ago. It was just awful." As her friend offers words of comfort, my own thoughts produce a rueful smile and a nagging question.
Just one? You know just one person who died?
By the time I was her age, death in my social circle was so commonplace the body count approached the toll of a commercial airline tragedy.
I listen as the woman reverently shares the details of the accident, of the shock waves that surged through the family, of what the dead friend was like and who freaked out at his funeral. And then a bittersweet realization strikes me.
The friend she lost has a story of his very own. It is the chronicle of one tragic death, with all of its intimate details and reverberations. His story will be repeated by the young woman for years, and by her brother and by the remaining loved ones of the absent friend. And they will grieve and remember this individual death and grant it the weight of a rare tragedy.
Already I have indulged in a regrettable pastime that aggravates me when others pander to it. I am counting my lost friends like selfishly guarded chips in a morbid poker game, claiming my grief as if the high tally amplifies the legitimacy of my loss. There is no hierarchy of misery. The death of one person close to you is quite enough.
And yet there are harrowing, undeniable moments from my past, drawn from 30 years living with HIV, that have shaped my attitudes and the senseless tragedies that befall us. I can conjure them but I must do it deliberately, for they are held captive in secluded corners of my mind and I release them with great caution. Perhaps now is the right time to unlock a few of those images.
The fluids in Lesley's dying body percolating like a coffee maker as we stood at his bedside awaiting his last breath. The anguished admission by my brother, Richard, that he helped his critically ill lover swallow a deadly, Seconal-laced cocktail in order for him to die on his own terms and avoid the final indignities of AIDS. My visit to Pablo in intensive care during his pitiful throes of dementia, nodding my head reassuringly as I tried to decipher his final, incoherent pleas.
They are a litany of despair, these heartrending tales, but I feel compelled to reveal them as part of another common exercise: to authenticate my history as a "long-term survivor." I have misgivings about that unsettling designation because it doesn't speak to my other, parallel life experiences and it suggests a dismissal of my relevance in the here and now.
That life has included falling in love, changing careers, teasing my friends, watching my cats wrestle one another, and looking forward to whatever lies ahead with a deep sense of gratitude and joyful anticipation.
And it is this prism—one that includes AIDS as only a segment of my life—through which I view the world today. My status as a long-term HIV survivor does not make me a champion or a museum piece to be examined and admired. I am a man in the prime of his life. My age and maturity guide me, not the virus that has failed miserably to kill me.
The grief-stricken young man I once was held no clue about the mystifying speed with which time passes. The swift interval between the early days of AIDS and merciful treatment breakthroughs confounds me even now. Suddenly I blinked, and when I opened my eyes I was 40 years old and the world was a far different place.
My work in HIV advocacy continued during this time while others retreated to lives away from daily reminders of the epidemic. I did not fault them for that, in fact I envied them, but the army of our earliest activists, forged in the first years of the plague, had diminished.
By then, women and people of color had gained more traction and acknowledgment in the HIV arena, though without the national fervor or the generous support enjoyed by the original, largely gay agencies.
It was a time of such hope and encouraging progress, but if you scratched the surface of these victories you found they were dependent on privilege, money and access. Deaths continued unabated behind a dark curtain of racism and poverty.
The gay community began to avert its eyes from the continued infections of people unlike ourselves, and I joined many other exhausted activists who abandoned town hall forums devoted to HIV for the celebratory relief of the dance floor. Massive circuit party events became a vibrant diversion, summoning revelers by promoting their dubious contributions to AIDS service organizations. After a generation of relentless mortality I felt entitled to the party, to the steroids and the gym membership and the body-thumping beats of house music.
That is, until the festivities morphed into drug-fueled bacchanalias that required ambulances with the same regularity that had once been needed at AIDS hospices. I fell victim to their excesses, and my drug addiction and recovery process removed me from HIV advocacy for the next several years.
They comfort me, these tangible reminders of strife, victory, love and loss. They help me embrace and appreciate my life history. Perhaps I don't find the title of "long-term survivor" so unsettling after all. There are worse things.
Most of all, the trauma that had once consumed me is now shrouded in the fog of a fading dream.
What remains are the wondrous developments of the present, like treatments that have also rendered people with HIV non-infectious and the amazing potential of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a pill to prevent someone from contracting the virus. The advent of PrEP is the most significant prevention advancement in a generation. It is just the kind of miracle we once prayed for as we sat silently in pews at memorial services.
But astoundingly, these developments have been nearly as controversial as they have been celebrated.
There are thoughtful conversations about the cultural and medical effects of PrEP. What a shame they are being drowned out by clanging arguments about who is using condoms and who is not. The ludicrous chatter about who is a whore, a role model or a rebel foolishly reduces human sexual behavior to a problem that must be solved. Much of it seeks to impose sexual sterility in the way homophobic conservatives once denounced all gay bedroom antics, whether they were risky or not.
I remember what sex was like before gay men started using condoms. It was glorious. It still is. I always thought that finding our way back to enjoying sex without a barrier was kind of the point. Even the popular slang for sex without condoms, "barebacking," evokes some kind of deviant sexual pathology. The entire history of human sexuality would suggest otherwise.
I watch the absurd finger-pointing today, the naïve segregation of positive and negative, the lack of empathy granted to human failings, the tendency of the newly infected to call the police before they call a doctor, the fracturing of the advocacy efforts built over decades, and I weep for the community we once were.
Trying to imprint our life lessons on the young is a fool's errand practiced without effect for millennia. I have never walked up to anyone who served in Vietnam and asked him to sit down and tell me all about it. I may respect the elderly soldiers in Veterans Day parades, but whatever post-traumatic disorders or multiple losses we may share fail to unite us. I watch them roll by in wheelchairs, festooned with medals and shriveled into nothingness, and then I have the audacity to wonder why younger gay men don't consider my life experiences relevant.
Our influence as long-term survivors may be limited, but we can find meaning and engagement as cultural elders and mentors. To whatever degree younger people are receptive, we have so much to offer about the nuances of treatment, the various side effects and the failings of the pharmaceutical complex that we have rallied against so effectively through the years.
Regardless, nothing should deter us from being of service to one another. We must support the emerging networks of other survivors and work to find solace in our shared history. We are a displaced segment of a community that once ministered to us. Our bond is vital to finding solutions to the issues we face as an aging population.
As wearying as our battles have been, as unwelcome as we may sometimes feel in the modern advocacy movement, we have plenty to contribute. We had better do it while we still can.
I am sensitive to the passage of time because I have seen lives with great promise left unfulfilled. I may no longer fear dying, but I am sorely afraid of not taking full advantage of these precious additional years that were once unimaginable. Regrets, the things unsaid and undone, are what frighten me and urge me onward.
The mysteries of life and time will be revealed in due course: to the woman on the bus grieving her singular loss, to those who would howl at the moon over behaviors they do not understand, to survivors grappling with the meaning of tragedy, to young people negotiating the sexual terrain, to you and to me and to all the rest.
Enlightenment awaits. All we have to do is blink.
(This essay appeared in the June, 2015 issue of POZ Magazine and is shared with their permission. Today is HIV Long-Term Survivor Awareness Day.)
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Checking Privilege at 'HIV Is Not A Crime' 2016
Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
The issues of race, gender and privilege crackled through the recent HIV Is Not A Crime (II) conference like a live wire, throwing sparks at every turn. From the main stage to the hallways, attendees called out white classism, the utter failure of the criminal justice system (unless its purpose is solely to imprison black men), and what it truly means to be an ally of marginalized communities.
It was at turns exhilarating and a little unnerving. White male advocates like myself might have lost our bearings from time to time, wondering why we felt self-conscious at a conference devoted to an issue we care deeply about. No matter. The anti-criminalization movement is largely populated by women and people of color, and their job isn't to make me comfortable (activism rarely is). Changing laws that imprison innocent people living with HIV is the goal, along with condemning the social and legal systems responsible.
If you go with that thesis, then the prominence of women and people of color at HIV Is Not A Crime is as bittersweet as it is triumphant.
Produced by The Sero Project and the activism powerhouse Positive Women's Network USA, the conference served as a "training academy" for advocates working to reform or repeal State-wide HIV criminalization statutes, and the work of organizers is a testament to our common bond: the empowerment of people living with HIV, speaking about ourselves, for ourselves.
The intersections of race, gender, and sexuality were given as much weight as strategy sessions on working with legislators and lawyers, and the program repeatedly drove home the fact that criminalizing behaviors related to specific groups of people is as American as apple pie. Plenary speakers included advocates for women (including transgender women), current and former sex workers, immigration reform and drug legalization advocates, and, most powerfully, people who have been prosecuted under HIV criminalization statutes.
My video coverage of the HIV Is Not A Crime (II) Training Academy provides a glimpse of demographic landscape the conference offered, even if I managed to chronicle remarks by elevated HIV advocate Mary Fisher while not capturing enough of the electrifying words of grassroots activists like Maxx Boykin, Ashton P. Woods, and Marco Castro-Bojorquez, or criminalization survivors like Ken Pinkela and Monique Moree (add them to your Twitter feed anyway). My special thanks to Nicholas Feustel, a Berlin filmmaker who is creating his own film about the conference, for allowing me to tag along during his interviews (and take advantage of his awesome lighting).
It is tough to describe the experience of being on the campus of University of Alabama in Huntsville with these fierce advocates for four days, living together in dorms and taking our meals in the cafeteria. HIV Is Not A Crime may be the most perk-free conference any of us have ever experienced, with no exhibit hall or pharmaceutical sponsors bearing swag bags, and I don't believe we would have it any other way.
For more information on HIV criminalization, and why this continues to be the defining moral HIV issue of our time, I urge you to visit The Sero Project for video interviews with those who have been prosecuted and a state-by-state map of HIV statutes.
Meanwhile, my friends, please be well.
p.s. Speaking of conference coverage, I'm thrilled to announce that I will return to the International AIDS Conference for AIDS2016 in Durban, South Africa in July. My video blog coverage is sponsored by MSMGF and will appear on their site as well as TheBody.com. I look forward to bringing you the sights, sounds, breaking news, and most especially the people that make the bi-annual conference so memorable. Look for more details very soon.
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The Nearly Naked AIDS Advocate
Sunday, May 22nd, 2016
When Benjamin "Ben" Ryan began taking dance classes ten years ago, the personal venture was a complete whim. After all, he was in his late twenties at the time – ancient for a beginning dancer – and by his own admission, was "just awful" for the first few years of classes. And nothing about his vocation as a writer specializing in the science of HIV suggested that Gene Kelly was trapped inside.
Cue the victorious final production number of your favorite musical. Not only did Ben get better – a whole lot better – he was cast in the spectacular HIV fundraiser Broadway Bares seven years ago and each year since, hoofing alongside actual Broadway dancers. Performers can also raise money through the event's "Stripathon" page, through which Ben has raised more than $80,000 for beneficiary Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (you can visit Ben's stripathon page here and add to that impressive tally).
Oh, and Ben Ryan has done all of this while wearing very, very little on stage.
When the curtain rises for "On Demand," the newest Broadway Bares show to be performed in New York City on June 19th, Ben will be back, appearing for a third time in the opening number. With its generous blend of almost-and-sometimes-totally-naked men and women, celebrity cameos, and risqué burlesque, the show is sure to add significant funds to the $14 million the event has raised to date for people living with HIV and other health initiatives. For Ben, it's all an unlikely dream come true.
"For the last 15 years," Ben said, "I've written about the HIV epidemic as a reporter." He currently covers science as editor-at-large for POZ Magazine, and getting his facts straight is incredibly important to him — especially when every detail of each new study is parsed and debated online. "The way I make sure my back is covered is I fact check like crazy," he said. "Even one word can change the meaning of something. If I do get something wrong, I'm really upset. I'm a perfectionist."
Those same qualities have served him well as a late-blooming dancer. When he started out, "I was at the rock bottom of my dance class with a bunch of kids," Ben said. "Even my teacher made fun of me. Until she didn't." He still finds it hard to believe he now shares the stage every year with Broadway professionals.
But what must the scene be like backstage, with all that naked flesh running around? "Most of the guys in the show are really friendly," Ben said coyly. (For more visual information on the scene backstage, check out Ben's own photography page for images of all the action behind the curtain. You're welcome.)
Ben has nothing but love for special guest performers like Laverne Cox and Judith Light. "The whole room exploded at rehearsal last year when they announced that Laverne would perform," he said. "She was such a darling, always hanging out with everyone. And Judith will just wander around backstage with this amazing grin on her face. She gives a speech at the end of the show that always gives me goosebumps."
Star power is great, but nothing beats a volunteer like Ben who knows how to raise money. "Ben is not content to take the stage in bare-bottomed pride," said Tom Viola, the highly regarded director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. "He raised $17,346 just last year and was named Mr. Stripathon." Tom also credits Ben with helping to craft HIV prevention and treatment messages that are shared with the entire company each year, "so everyone associated with the production understands how to take care of themselves and each other."
Amidst all the revealing fun, Ben knows Broadway Bares isn't simply being titillating for its own sake. "Ultimately, the show is a celebration of the body," he said. "We harken back to a time when we were afraid to touch each other, so to celebrate our sexuality is a profound thing. That, as opposed to HIV stigma and anxiety about sex and transmitting disease."
Ben also admits that the show is a nice escape from his more cerebral work in HIV science. "It's so much fun to be silly and outrageous," he said. "I wanted to be involved in an event that I thought was the most exciting thing in New York City. And I am!"
(Ben's fund raising page for Broadway Bares is here.)
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Into the Desert, After the Bomb
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Daniel Cardone's essential but relentlessly grim documentary about longtime AIDS survivors, Desert Migration, is fascinated with the bodies of the gay men it profiles.
The film begins with lingering shots of each of the subjects as they begin their day. It follows them through their routine, some of them naked, as they prepare breakfast, shower, shave, meditate. Their faces peer directly at us — a few of them handsome, all of them weathered — in high definition close-up.
We are being asked to study them closely. Look at the skin, the camera is saying, the muscles, the sags, the piercings, the facial wasting, the extended stomachs, the disfigurement, the open wounds. Desert Migration does not want us to turn away from what the gay plague of 30 years ago has wrought in the here and now.
It's an almost clinical look at the after-effects of a catastrophe, like the documentaries that examine Hiroshima survivors decades after the bomb.
Desert Migration documents the results of a specific pilgrimage that became popular among gay men who were dying of AIDS decades ago: relocating to Palm Springs from major cities in the west, Los Angeles in particular. Once there, their fates and often their fortunes were reversed with the arrival of new medications in the mid 1990s. They experienced the emotional whiplash of renewed health in a world they had settled on leaving, as well as the unexpected financial burden of an extended lifespan.
The film is a crucial addition to the AIDS artistic catalogue because gay community is only now beginning to process and devote resources, artistic and otherwise, to the long term effects of the early AIDS crisis and the walking wounded who survived. That said, director Cordone doesn't make it easy for us.
There is an unyielding melancholy that permeates the film. The men profiled are almost uniformly isolated or at least wistful. The languid pace of the storytelling is underscored by Gil Talmi's ethereal original music, a slow pulse of electronica, like a dry desert breeze.
The men all speak of searching for purpose in the desert after having resigned to die there. They come from various levels of money and privilege, including some who outlived their bank accounts, and they are not without the sociological trappings of gay men, meaning, a fixation on self image and the pursuit of sexual or romantic partners.
"In this town, being 60, I'm chicken," says one. Several of them are battling the aging process mightily with trips to the gym and a regimen of steroids ("All the best looking guys have HIV," one of the men advises), all while the Palm Springs gay clothing stores mock them with windows filled with slender mannequins, dressed in tiny and unforgiving speedos.
More than one of them debates whether or not they would have reached their current level of spirituality, of self love, if they had not come face to face with their own mortality so young. "I don't know if my life would have such richness if I wasn't positive," one of them admits.
The real star of the film may be Austin Ahlborg's sumptuous cinematography, which makes the most of the desert landscape, often contrasting the men's flesh and blood with endless vistas of withered brush and rock.
Throughout the city of Palm Springs are hundreds of acres of modern, silently whirling windmills. The film focuses on them like a fetish, their propellers turning round and round, and the more Desert Migration returns to these monuments the more they appear to be clocks, ticking away, time always turning, slowing for no one. The image repeats itself, in shots of rotating ceiling fans and mechanical sculptures turning this way and that. Time is always moving, and it is unstoppable. Tick Tock.
There is so much in Desert Migration that will be familiar to gay men of a certain age, from the brutal to the romantic. Living life in five year increments, the sudden loss of friends, the confusion, the great love affairs cut short, the lives hijacked by drug addiction after having survived AIDS. There is comfort in identifying with these men, for those who need to, even if the film limits itself to their shared calamity.
After more than an hour of bleak pronouncements – and exactly one shot of someone laughing in the entire film – it becomes clear that filmmaker Cardone is almost exclusively fixated on the tragic aspects of these men's stories.
It's easy, maybe even lazy, to reduce AIDS survivors to their profound loss and a struggle for meaning in their later years (which, come to think of it, is a lifelong riddle everyone must contend with, after all).
Where is the joy? A brief dinner party suggests the good humor these men surely must incorporate into their lives, but otherwise filmmaker Cardone sticks to his theme of isolation and distress. "I just think that I'm very tired," one of the men says, after unsuccessful attempts at connection and romance. "I just don't know how much longer I even want to fight."
"The optimistic ones survive," one of the more privileged men offers, as night descends and he lowers the drapes of his condo, finely appointed with a leather sofa and a gleaming Judy Garland movie poster. Another subject begins the evening by welcoming a sex partner to warm up his sling. Optimism and escapism have their utilities.
Another man takes comfort in his own loneliness and solitude. "You're a lot more free when you don't believe much and you don't have any hope," he says, in an existential moment that might depress Sartre. "If you're holding on to hope, then you've still got something in the way of enjoying what is."
After all this, I wished to God that one of these guys was shown performing in musical theater or binge watching RuPaul's Drag Race.
The film draws to a close in the darkness of the desert, as our day with these men ends. Throughout the mountain passes surrounding Palm Springs, out there in the dark, those windmills are surely still twirling.
They continue to spin, marking time, without regard for the riddles of life or the trials of gay men.
(Visit the Desert Migration site for information on film festival screenings in your area, or for news about the DVD release.)
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We consider one dimensional percolation models for which the occupation probability of a bond −K x,y , has a slow power decay as a function of the bond's length. For independent models — and with suitable reformulations also for more general classes of models, it is shown that: i) no percolation is possible if for short bondsK x,y ≦p<1 and if for long bondsK x,y ≦β/|x−y|2 with β≦1, regardless of how closep is to 1, ii) in models for which the above asymptotic bound holds with some β<∞, there is a discontinuity in the percolation densityM (≡P ∞) at the percolation threshold, iii) assuming also translation invariance, in the nonpercolative regime, the mean cluster size is finite and the two-point connectivity function decays there as fast asC(β,p)/|x−y|2. The first two statements are consequences of a criterion which states that if the percolation densityM does not vanish then βM 2>=1. This dichotomy resembles one for the magnetization in 1/|x−y|2 Ising models which was first proposed by Thouless and further supported by the renormalization group flow equations of Anderson, Yuval, and Hamann. The proofs of the above percolation phenomena involve (rigorous) renormalization type arguments of a different sort.
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1. Sabata (1969)
PG-13 | 111 min | Western
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of ... See full summary »
Writers: Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti
Votes: 3,192
2. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
127 min | Adventure, Drama, History
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
Writers: Ennio De Concini, Sergio Leone, Cesare Seccia, Luciano Martino, Ageo Savioli, Luciano Chitarrini, Carlo Gualtieri | Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín
Votes: 1,800
3. The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, returning to his home from ... See full summary »
Writers: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Sergio Corbucci, Ennio De Concini, Luigi Emmanuele, Sergio Leone, Duccio Tessari | Directors: Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone | Stars: Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carroll
Votes: 726
4. The Divine Nymph (1975)
R | 115 min | Drama
A beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other. Set in the decadent Roaring Twenties, the triangle dissolves against suicide and fascism.
Writers: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Alfio Valdarnini, Luciano Zuccoli | Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Stars: Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, Michele Placido, Duilio Del Prete
Votes: 183
5. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
PG | 120 min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian ... See full summary »
Writers: Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Lino Iannuzzi, Leonardo Sciascia | Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 1,197
6. If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
95 min | Western
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer ... See full summary »
Writers: Adolfo Cagnacci, Luigi De Santis, Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini, Fabio Piccioni, Theo Maria Werner | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Gianni Garko, William Berger, Sydney Chaplin, Gianni Rizzo
Votes: 639
7. The Trojan Horse (1961)
105 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.
Writers: Giorgio Ferroni, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani, Federico Zardi | Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel
Votes: 281
8. Bengasi (1942)
90 min | Drama, War
Writers: Ugo Betti, Alessandro De Stefani, Augusto Genina | Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Amedeo Nazzari, Vivi Gioi
Votes: 47
9. Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)
105 min | Adventure
King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dieing, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the ... See full summary »
Writers: Gian Paolo Callegari, Sandro Continenza | Director: Silvio Amadio | Stars: Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 137
10. Nero's Mistress (1956)
104 min | Comedy, History
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her ... See full summary »
Writers: Sandro Continenza, Diego Fabbri, Ugo Guerra, Rodolfo Sonego, Steno, John Tessitore | Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Gloria Swanson, Brigitte Bardot
Votes: 193
11. Constantine and the Cross (1961)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Biopic of Constantine the Great, set between 293-312 AD, from his days as Tribune to his accession as Roman Emperor of Gaul under the tetrarchy system and ending with his battle against the usurper Roman Emperor Maxentius in Rome.
Writers: Michael Audley, Ennio De Concini, Lionello De Felice, Diego Fabbri, Ernesto Guida, Fulvio Palmieri, Franco Rossetti, Guglielmo Santangelo | Director: Lionello De Felice | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann
Votes: 278
12. The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Writers: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Alfredo Guarini | Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 365
13. Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958)
91 min | Drama, History
Antigonus, archon of Corinth, wants to build a magnificent temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, for which the people are oppressed by new and very high taxes. The sculptor Demetrius, ... See full summary »
Writers: Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone, Alberto Manca, Ugo Moretti, Mario di Nardo | Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Isabelle Corey, Anthony Steffen, Irène Tunc, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 52
14. Counselor at Crime (1973)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a ... See full summary »
Writers: Adriano Bolzoni, Alberto De Martino, Vincenzo Flamini, Leonardo Martín | Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Martin Balsam, Tomas Milian, Francisco Rabal, Dagmar Lassander
Votes: 120
15. The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
98 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science ... See full summary »
Writers: Sabatino Ciuffini, Ambrogio Molteni, Oreste Palella, Emimmo Salvi, Umberto Scarpelli, Gino Stafford | Director: Umberto Scarpelli | Stars: Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez, Roldano Lupi, Marietto
Votes: 230
16. Kommissar X - Drei grüne Hunde (1967)
93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert ... See full summary »
Writer: Rudolf Zehetgruber | Directors: Rudolf Zehetgruber, Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Olga Schoberová, Christa Linder
Votes: 51
17. Son of Samson (1960)
Unrated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Maciste travels to Egypt, where he leads a revolt against an evil queen.
Writers: Oreste Biancoli, Ennio De Concini | Director: Carlo Campogalliani | Stars: Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Angelo Zanolli
Votes: 104
18. The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
FBI agent Brad joins Tony and Nick, the self styled Supermen who battle crime wearing bullet-proof super-suits. They are on a case involving radioactive counterfeit money and people who can be broken down into precious jewels.
Writers: Gianfranco Parolini, Marcello Coscia, Theo Maria Werner | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Aldo Canti, Carlo Tamberlani
Votes: 104
19. Scipione l'africano (1937)
83 min | Drama, History, War
Mussolini's government, in addition to making the railroads run on time (and other items not so good), could also produce a movie on a lavish scale, including over 6000 extras in the battle... See full summary »
Writers: Carmine Gallone, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara, Sebastiano A. Luciani | Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggiotti
Votes: 171
113 min | Drama, History
Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
Writers: Helmut Harun, Gianfranco Parolini, Giovanni Simonelli | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Susan Paget, Brad Harris, Mara Lane, Jacques Berthier
Votes: 52
21. I giorni più belli (1956)
100 min
An old elementary teacher defends her old school from being torn down with the help of her previous students, now grown up people.
Writers: Fede Arnaud, Sandro Continenza, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola | Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Franco Interlenghi, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Carotenuto, Valeria Moriconi
Votes: 10
22. Folgore Division (1955)
84 min | War
Writers: Aldo Barni, Oreste Biancoli, Marc-Antonio Bragadin, Umberto Bruzzese, Duilio Coletti, Ennio De Concini, Marcello Giannini, Nino Giannini, Angelo Pannacciò, Alfredo Vicario | Director: Duilio Coletti | Stars: Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Monica Clay, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 34
23. The Fury of Hercules (1962)
97 min | Adventure
In a tyrannical kingdom there is an evil ruler and a queen who lusts after Hercules who is attracted to a handmaiden. A rebellion overthrows the ruler.
Writers: M. D'Amiens, Arpad DeRiso, John Davis Hart, Larry Madison, Gianfranco Parolini, Giovanni Simonelli, Sergio Sollima | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Brad Harris, Luisella Boni, Mara Berni, Elke Arendt
Votes: 110
24. Legacy of the Incas (1965)
100 min | Adventure, Western
In Peru, the land of the Incas, the Indian pin their hopes on Jaucarapora. They want to him as their king who could drive back the white conquistador. A stranger appears in Lima who risks ... See full summary »
Writers: Karl May, Georg Marischka, Winfried Groth, Franz Marischka | Director: Georg Marischka | Stars: Guy Madison, Rik Battaglia, Heinz Erhardt, Chris Howland
Votes: 129
25. The Lion of Thebes (1964)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Hercules being heroic in ancient Greece.
Writers: Andrey De Coligny, Remigio Del Grosso, Giorgio Ferroni, Jean Velter | Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Mark Forest, Yvonne Furneaux, Massimo Serato, Pierre Cressoy
Votes: 126
26. Samson (1961)
99 min | Fantasy, Adventure
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom.... See full summary »
Writers: Oscar D'Amico, G. Madison, Gianfranco Parolini, Giovanni Simonelli | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Brad Harris, Sergio Ciani, Mara Berni, Serge Gainsbourg
Votes: 85
27. 3 Avengers (1964)
97 min | Adventure
(1964) Alan Steel, Lisa Gastoni, Mimmo Palmara, Rosalba Neri. Steel and his sword-wielding pals run head-on into the forces of a cruel tyrant. There's a bit more intentional comedy than ... See full summary »
Writers: Lionello De Felice, Arnaldo Marrosu, Gianfranco Parolini | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Mimmo Palmara, Rosalba Neri, Lisa Gastoni
Votes: 30
28. Samson in King Solomon's Mines (1964)
92 min | Action
Maciste is captured and forced to work as a slave in an African mine.
Writer: Piero Regnoli | Director: Piero Regnoli | Stars: Reg Park, Wandisa Guida, Bruno Piergentili, Eleonora Bianchi
Votes: 82
29. Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East (1966)
92 min | Adventure
A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! A dangerous crime organization wants the device and will stop at nothing to get it, ... See full summary »
Writers: Stefan Gommermann, Gianfranco Parolini, Paul Alfred Müller | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Barbara Frey, Luisa Rivelli
Votes: 85
30. Samson and the Mighty Challenge (1964)
100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.
Writers: Sandro Continenza, Roberto Gianviti, Sebastián Luca de Tena | Director: Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Howard Ross, Nadir Moretti, Yann Larvor
Votes: 165
31. Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (1964)
106 min | Action, Drama
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to ... See full summary »
Writers: Nick Nostro, Sergio Sollima | Director: Nick Nostro | Stars: Dan Vadis, Helga Liné, Stelio Candelli, Halina Zalewska
Votes: 54
32. Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas (1964)
90 min | Western
Writers: Arpad DeRiso, Piero Pierotti | Director: Piero Pierotti | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Toni Sailer, Wolfgang Lukschy, Brigitte Heiberg
Votes: 42
33. Seven Slaves Against Rome (1964)
96 min | Adventure
Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire. Centurion ... See full summary »
Writers: Roberto Gianviti, Michele Lupo | Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell, Arnaldo Fabrizio, Scilla Gabel
Votes: 30
34. Caesar the Conqueror (1962)
103 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Julius Caesar leads the Roman army to battle against rebels in Gaul.
Writers: Gaio Giulio Cesare, Arpad DeRiso, Giovanni Scolaro, George Higgins | Director: Tanio Boccia | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Ivica Pajer
Votes: 136
35. Duel at the Rio Grande (1963)
90 min | Adventure, Western
Writers: Guido Malatesta, Luis Marquina, Casey Robinson, Arturo Rígel | Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Sean Flynn, Folco Lulli, Gaby André, Enrique Diosdado
Votes: 52
36. Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Writers: Anton Giulio Majano, Georges Ohnet | Director: Anton Giulio Majano | Stars: Antonio Vilar, Virna Lisi, Wandisa Guida, Warner Bentivegna
Votes: 12
37. Margaret of Cortona (1950)
100 min | Drama
Writers: Mario Bonnard, Cesare Ludovici, Edoardo Lulli, Giovanni Scolaro, Guglielmo Zorzi | Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Maria Frau, Isa Pola, Galeazzo Benti, Aldo Nicodemi
38. The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
112 min | Drama, War
Writers: Augusto Genina, Alessandro De Stefani, Pietro Caporilli, Edoardo Anton | Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, María Denis, Rafael Calvo
Votes: 113
39. The Masked Conqueror (1962)
Not Rated | 94 min | Western
When Ramon is back from Mexico to his native land of Lusitania, he angrily realizes that a usurper, Ramon, the late Grand-Duke's faithless brother, has laid hands on the Duchy, at the ... See full summary »
Writers: Arpad DeRiso, Giovanni Scolaro | Director: Luigi Capuano | Stars: George Ardisson, Alberto Lupo, Nadia Marlowa, Maria Letizia Gazzoni
Votes: 21
40. Seven Rebel Gladiators (1965)
90 min | Adventure, History
The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. ... See full summary »
Writers: Lionello De Felice, Ernesto Gastaldi, Francesco Scardamaglia | Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Roger Browne, José Greci, Alfio Caltabiano, Harold Bradley
Votes: 27
41. Ten Commandments (1945)
150 min | Drama
Based on the classic Bible story.
Writers: Giorgio Walter Chili, Diego Fabbri, Pietro Germi, Enrico Ribulsi, Callisto V. Vanzin | Director: Giorgio Walter Chili | Stars: Marina Berti, Carlo Campanini, Delia Brandi, Amedeo Nazzari
Votes: 6
42. The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
110 min | Drama
Writers: Lucio D'Ambra, Carmine Gallone | Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Gaby Morlay, Germana Paolieri, Camillo Pilotto
Votes: 8
43. Un ladro in paradiso (1952)
92 min | Comedy
Writers: Giuseppe Amato, Giuseppe Marotta | Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Nino Taranto, Francesco Golisano, Hélène Rémy, Filippo Scelzo
Votes: 7
44. Hercules Against Rome (1964)
87 min | Adventure, History
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by ... See full summary »
Writers: Arpad DeRiso, Piero Pierotti, Giovanni Scolaro | Director: Piero Pierotti | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon, Daniele Vargas
Votes: 34
45. Piccolo mondo antico (1941)
106 min | Drama
Franco, a young man of noble descent, decides to marry Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will. But a terrible tragedy upsets the life of the newly married couple:... See full summary »
Writers: Antonio Fogazzaro, Mario Bonfantini, Emilio Cecchi, Alberto Lattuada, Mario Soldati | Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Alida Valli, Massimo Serato, Ada Dondini, Annibale Betrone
Votes: 86
46. Thirteen Days to Die (1965)
102 min | Action, Drama
Spy chase after the secret formula for uranium, U92, employing various sci-fi gadgetry, and physical violence.
Writer: Manfred R. Köhler | Directors: Alberto Cardone, Manfred R. Köhler | Stars: Thomas Alder, Horst Frank, Chitra Ratana, Peter Carsten
Votes: 37
47. Il vecchio testamento (1962)
88 min | Action, Adventure
The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Writers: Ghigo De Chiara, Luciano Martino, Gianfranco Parolini, Giorgio Prosperi, Giovanni Simonelli | Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Brad Harris, Ivano Staccioli, Franca Parisi, Mara Lane
Votes: 33
48. The Drums of Tabu (1966)
91 min | Adventure
Writers: Javier Setó, Santiago Moncada | Director: Javier Setó | Stars: James Philbrook, Seyna Seyn, Paco Morán, Franco Fantasia
Votes: 14
49. Captain Phantom (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the early 1800's the Spanish regiments are celebrating their victory over the French Legions of Bonaparte. In the midst of the celebration, Miguel, Duke of Canabil, is summoned to his ... See full summary »
Writers: Gino De Santis, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Primo Zeglio | Director: Primo Zeglio | Stars: Frank Latimore, Anna-Maria Sandri, Maxwell Reed, Katina Ranieri
Votes: 9
50. Condottieri (II) (1937)
Adventure, War
Writers: Kurt Heuser, Mirko Jelusich, Luis Trenker | Directors: Luis Trenker, Giacomo Gentilomo, Anton Giulio Majano | Stars: Loris Gizzi, Carla Sveva, Ethel Maggi, Mario Ferrari
Votes: 10


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On Oct. 30, a North Platte police officer responded to Century Link at 1120 E. Seventh about a reported theft of a large roll of fiber optic cable.
A week later on Nov. 6, the police went to the electrical division of North Platte Municipal Light & Water, 615 N. Tabor, where some copper wire was stolen. That fence was also cut, Brown said.
Later, a local salvage company called Muni (Municipal Light & Water) and said Seth Jackson, 25, of North Platte, was at their salvage yard trying to sell a small amount of copper. Officers were dispatched, but Jackson left before they arrived.
Finally, around 1 a.m. Thursday, officers found Jackson in a car near his home and arrested him, charging him with the theft of Century Link cable as well as possession of stolen property from Muni, Brown said.
Jackson is in the Lincoln County Jail, held on $10,000 bond. He was assigned to the public defenders office and ordered to reappear in court next week.
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