Juan Michael Porter II
@juanmichaelii.bsky.social
Black gay man; living with HIV since 2015.
Podcast host of the International AIDS Society.
Freelance journalist and consultant.
juanmichael.com
#IDsky #Medsky
Podcast host of the International AIDS Society.
Freelance journalist and consultant.
juanmichael.com
#IDsky #Medsky
Pinned
The mural behind me says: Todos Juntos Podemos Para El SIDA.
Together We Can Stop AIDS—but first, we have to end #HIV stigma.
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. I started sharing my HIV status 6 yrs ago to help the world understand that people living w HIV can do anything. Please don't stigmatize us.
#IDsky
Together We Can Stop AIDS—but first, we have to end #HIV stigma.
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. I started sharing my HIV status 6 yrs ago to help the world understand that people living w HIV can do anything. Please don't stigmatize us.
#IDsky
"We don't need permission to keep honoring World AIDS Day.
We don't need permission to fight.
And we don't need permission to LIVE."
-Kamaria Laffrey
Steering Committee; U.S. PLHIV Caucus
Co-Executive Director; The Sero Project
We don't need permission to fight.
And we don't need permission to LIVE."
-Kamaria Laffrey
Steering Committee; U.S. PLHIV Caucus
Co-Executive Director; The Sero Project
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"We don't need permission to keep honoring World AIDS Day.
We don't need permission to fight.
And we don't need permission to LIVE."
-Kamaria Laffrey
Steering Committee; U.S. PLHIV Caucus
Co-Executive Director; The Sero Project
We don't need permission to fight.
And we don't need permission to LIVE."
-Kamaria Laffrey
Steering Committee; U.S. PLHIV Caucus
Co-Executive Director; The Sero Project
World AIDS Day is tomorrow. Some of you aren't living with HIV but are speaking on panels that don't feature any people living with HIV. Some of you are speaking on panels that center your experience instead of the very community this day was established to celebrate.
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
World AIDS Day is tomorrow. Some of you aren't living with HIV but are speaking on panels that don't feature any people living with HIV. Some of you are speaking on panels that center your experience instead of the very community this day was established to celebrate.
I had an incredible time in London at Red Ribbon Living Well's World AIDS Day presentation. Thank you @susancolehaley.bsky.social for inviting me to speak on behalf of the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social.
The combo of scientific & community presentations were curated in perfect conversation w each other.
The combo of scientific & community presentations were curated in perfect conversation w each other.
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I had an incredible time in London at Red Ribbon Living Well's World AIDS Day presentation. Thank you @susancolehaley.bsky.social for inviting me to speak on behalf of the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social.
The combo of scientific & community presentations were curated in perfect conversation w each other.
The combo of scientific & community presentations were curated in perfect conversation w each other.
"The only people who the HIV Caucus disavows are those who act with hate. If you must participate in Black Friday sales, please shop with companies that act with love.
If they want our money, force them to show that they deserve it."
-Juan Michael Porter II
@plhivcaucus.bsky.social
If they want our money, force them to show that they deserve it."
-Juan Michael Porter II
@plhivcaucus.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"The only people who the HIV Caucus disavows are those who act with hate. If you must participate in Black Friday sales, please shop with companies that act with love.
If they want our money, force them to show that they deserve it."
-Juan Michael Porter II
@plhivcaucus.bsky.social
If they want our money, force them to show that they deserve it."
-Juan Michael Porter II
@plhivcaucus.bsky.social
Blessed Thanksgiving,
I'm thankful to everyone
who's fought for a world where
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Let's continue to fight in their names.
[email protected]
PS: I'm lucky to serve as the HIV Caucus' communications officer and to create these posts.
I'm thankful to everyone
who's fought for a world where
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Let's continue to fight in their names.
[email protected]
PS: I'm lucky to serve as the HIV Caucus' communications officer and to create these posts.
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Blessed Thanksgiving,
I'm thankful to everyone
who's fought for a world where
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Let's continue to fight in their names.
[email protected]
PS: I'm lucky to serve as the HIV Caucus' communications officer and to create these posts.
I'm thankful to everyone
who's fought for a world where
HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Let's continue to fight in their names.
[email protected]
PS: I'm lucky to serve as the HIV Caucus' communications officer and to create these posts.
The Trump administration is refusing to commemorate World AIDS Day this year. Doing so apes the Reagan administration ― which ignored and botched the AIDS crisis, dooming hundreds of thousands to slow, agonizing deaths. Is this a declaration of intent to return to those times?
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Trump administration is refusing to commemorate World AIDS Day this year. Doing so apes the Reagan administration ― which ignored and botched the AIDS crisis, dooming hundreds of thousands to slow, agonizing deaths. Is this a declaration of intent to return to those times?
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
🗓️ Monday, Dec 1, 2025 @ 9 a.m. ET 🗓️
Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🗓️ Monday, Dec 1, 2025 @ 9 a.m. ET 🗓️
Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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"HIV Is Being Swept Up in the Anti-Woke Agenda"
www.thebody.com/article/hiv-...
I asked the great Mathew Rodriguez to write his 2 and half years ago because every other journalist I spoke to said that I was being alarmist.
www.thebody.com/article/hiv-...
I asked the great Mathew Rodriguez to write his 2 and half years ago because every other journalist I spoke to said that I was being alarmist.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"HIV Is Being Swept Up in the Anti-Woke Agenda"
www.thebody.com/article/hiv-...
I asked the great Mathew Rodriguez to write his 2 and half years ago because every other journalist I spoke to said that I was being alarmist.
www.thebody.com/article/hiv-...
I asked the great Mathew Rodriguez to write his 2 and half years ago because every other journalist I spoke to said that I was being alarmist.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
The United States government has ordered its employees not to speak at any events for World AIDS Day or promote them on social media.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The United States government has ordered its employees not to speak at any events for World AIDS Day or promote them on social media.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
I guess they think that if we ignore HIV/AIDS it will just go away.
It didn’t work for Reagan and it’s not going to work now.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
🗓️ Monday, Dec 1, 2025 @ 9 a.m. ET 🗓️
Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
🧵 1/
Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
🧵 1/
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🗓️ Monday, Dec 1, 2025 @ 9 a.m. ET 🗓️
Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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Join us for a powerful #WorldAIDSDay webinar, "An HIV Doc and an Advocate Reflect on World AIDS Day"
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycxcnc7a
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Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
"When you eliminate health coverage, erase data, criminalize survival, and ban health care, you don't need a law to say trans people should not exist ― the systems themselves make our survival impossible."
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"When you eliminate health coverage, erase data, criminalize survival, and ban health care, you don't need a law to say trans people should not exist ― the systems themselves make our survival impossible."
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
The current administration has announced that it can use diabetes, obesity, and cancer to reject visa applicants. The HIV Caucus remembers when the U.S. had the same policy towards people living with HIV and we won't stand for it.
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The current administration has announced that it can use diabetes, obesity, and cancer to reject visa applicants. The HIV Caucus remembers when the U.S. had the same policy towards people living with HIV and we won't stand for it.
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Dear Megyn Kelly,
Having sex with 15 year old children does indeed make someone a pedophile. Just ask R. Kelly.
I hope this helps.
www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-rips-com...
Having sex with 15 year old children does indeed make someone a pedophile. Just ask R. Kelly.
I hope this helps.
www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-rips-com...
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Dear Megyn Kelly,
Having sex with 15 year old children does indeed make someone a pedophile. Just ask R. Kelly.
I hope this helps.
www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-rips-com...
Having sex with 15 year old children does indeed make someone a pedophile. Just ask R. Kelly.
I hope this helps.
www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-rips-com...
Great article by Gus Cairns. A major point here is that people are not being diagnosed: It's thought that 43%-50% of Europeans w transmissible HIV are undiagnosed.
Meanwhile, Russia remains the largest driver of HIV within eastern Europe. Why? Putin downplays HIV & his attitude has infected others.
Meanwhile, Russia remains the largest driver of HIV within eastern Europe. Why? Putin downplays HIV & his attitude has infected others.
More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago
"This is more due to people not being diagnosed than not being treated: in eastern Europe, it is thought that 50% of people with transmissible levels of HIV are those that remain undiagnosed"
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
"This is more due to people not being diagnosed than not being treated: in eastern Europe, it is thought that 50% of people with transmissible levels of HIV are those that remain undiagnosed"
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago
Europe, taken as a whole, is losing some of the gains it has made in tackling the burden of HIV, the 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) heard in Paris.
Teymur Noori of the European C...
www.aidsmap.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great article by Gus Cairns. A major point here is that people are not being diagnosed: It's thought that 43%-50% of Europeans w transmissible HIV are undiagnosed.
Meanwhile, Russia remains the largest driver of HIV within eastern Europe. Why? Putin downplays HIV & his attitude has infected others.
Meanwhile, Russia remains the largest driver of HIV within eastern Europe. Why? Putin downplays HIV & his attitude has infected others.
Lately, pundits have gone back to joking about Lindsey Graham's sexuality. What irks me most about these comments is that they miss the point:
We should taunt man for his barbaric record against historically marginalized communities. Not because of who he might be.
www.thebody.com/article/lind...
We should taunt man for his barbaric record against historically marginalized communities. Not because of who he might be.
www.thebody.com/article/lind...
Gay Sex Rumors Aside, Lindsey Graham’s LGBTQ Record Is a Flaming Trash Dumpster
Gay Sex Rumors Aside, Lindsey Graham’s LGBTQ Record Is a Flaming Trash Dumpster. Juan Michael Porter II.
www.thebody.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Lately, pundits have gone back to joking about Lindsey Graham's sexuality. What irks me most about these comments is that they miss the point:
We should taunt man for his barbaric record against historically marginalized communities. Not because of who he might be.
www.thebody.com/article/lind...
We should taunt man for his barbaric record against historically marginalized communities. Not because of who he might be.
www.thebody.com/article/lind...
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
Yesterday was a busy day in the STI clinic, but one of my last patients had reported pain during sex. Turns out they had trich, but the more important discussion was what happened when they disclosed to their partner their discomfort, the partner ignored my pt. This is not ok…
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yesterday was a busy day in the STI clinic, but one of my last patients had reported pain during sex. Turns out they had trich, but the more important discussion was what happened when they disclosed to their partner their discomfort, the partner ignored my pt. This is not ok…
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
October 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis.
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
October 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis.
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
Because HIV disproportionately harms Black people, we've gone from picking cotton in fields to picking pills out of bottles as a cash crop for pharmaceutical companies, which use our blood as collateral to enrich their coffers.
Things can be different:
www.thebody.com/article/soli...
Things can be different:
www.thebody.com/article/soli...
October 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Because HIV disproportionately harms Black people, we've gone from picking cotton in fields to picking pills out of bottles as a cash crop for pharmaceutical companies, which use our blood as collateral to enrich their coffers.
Things can be different:
www.thebody.com/article/soli...
Things can be different:
www.thebody.com/article/soli...
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator!
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator!
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.
September 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
California lawmakers started the year signaling they were ready to get tough on data centers, aiming to protect the environment and electricity ratepayers. Nine months later, they have little to show for it. https://cal.news/4pGZ43s
📷 Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
📷 Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
California lawmakers started the year signaling they were ready to get tough on data centers, aiming to protect the environment and electricity ratepayers. Nine months later, they have little to show for it. https://cal.news/4pGZ43s
📷 Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
📷 Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Making fun of the current president may feel good but it is not activism. Rather, if it's the only way that you're activating, I think you can follow up with something more effective.
September 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Making fun of the current president may feel good but it is not activism. Rather, if it's the only way that you're activating, I think you can follow up with something more effective.
Reposted by Juan Michael Porter II
People Living With HIV Need:
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
People Living With HIV Need:
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma