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POZPLANET HIV+ Queer Online Community, est. 2007.

Fighting HIV social stigma online + off.

Sex-positive anti-racist FB group with 10,000+ members.

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POZPLANET 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦄🌈🍆 @pozplanet.bsky.social · Aug 31

September issue OUT NOW!

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with Bob Bowers, Nour Abdul-hadi investigates dating while HIV+, Randy Davis gives us a special report and DJ Relentless serves up some new EAR CANDY.

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August 31, 2025 at 5:12 AM

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September issue OUT NOW!

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with Bob Bowers plus Nour Abdul-hadi, Randy Davis and DJ Relentless!

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POZPLANET Magazine

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The August 2025 issue of POZPLANET Magazine is finally here! This month we get UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with @theonlyjmv.bsky.social & @marksking.bsky.social questions if HIV increases your risk of cancer.

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August 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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LATEST ISSUE OUT NOW! :: Emma Cole, Toronto AIDS Vigil, financial help for Seniors living with HIV, new EAR CANDY from DJ Relentless and more.

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July 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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POZPLANET Magazine

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It is with very heavy hearts that we have share the sad news of our contributor, Deborah Norris who died peacefully at home on May 12th. Not only was she a fierce HIV activist for women and the LGBT Community, she was also a mother of two and diagnosed back in the early 90s. Rest in peace, Deborah.

May 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Our PRIDE ISSUE of POZPLANET Magazine is here! Mark S. King introduces us to Craig Washington, we celebrate 10 Out HIV+ Celebrities and sadly we pay tribute to Deborah Norris.

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May 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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PINK CINEMA & POSITIVE CONNECTIONS are Toronto based groups that bring our 2SLGBTQIA+ community closer through cinema!

We screen films each third Tuesday of each month at Studio 163 aka Toronto PWA Foundation at 163 Queen Street East.

FREE!

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April 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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TOP STAR with JADE ELEKTRA is back! Toronto's only LGBT Live Talent Competition that nurtures live performers. WIN up to $1100! (See details on poster) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🦄🎤

April 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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MAY ISSUE OUT NOW! UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with Louise Vallace, Deborah Norris keeps her EAR TO THE GROUND, two NEW contributors EAR CANDY from DJ Relentless

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April 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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April 2025 issue of POZPLANET out now!

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with Matthew Hodson, important info about Retiring HIV+ in Ontario, Deborah Norris, DJ Relentless + more!

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April 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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Jade Elektra

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It's already March of 2025 and the new POZPLANET Magazine is here! This month we get UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with @jasonreiduk.bsky.social and @marksking.bsky.social does nothing.

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February 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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March ‘25 issue OUT NOW!

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with Jason Reid, Mark S. King does nothing, a new Cancer Vaccine, meet Joseph Jean Gilles and DJ Relentless serves up some new EAR CANDY.

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March 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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Mikiki

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Love my darling friends making poz voices and lived realities visible and meaningful

eric kw @kostiukwilliams.bsky.social · Feb 2

meant a lot to put this illustration together for a new CBC long-read on people in Ottawa navigating life with HIV
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February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM

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Edu Peres

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#UequalsU #NationalHIVTestIngWeek #IDSky #GUMSky #SexualHealth #MedSky

February 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Matthew Hodson

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Dad bod or daddy body?

Me in vest and shorts working out yesterday.
I’m thick in the arms and thighs (yay!) but also around the middle (boo!).

February 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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The next MINGLE event is Thursday March 6th and in support of One Black Mama Productions

February 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Matthew Hodson

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A 🧵 on what aid cuts mean for HIV.
HIV treatment saves lives.
Currently 20 million people worldwide are on treatment funded by the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
That funding was halted by Presidential order and then given a reprieve for 90 days.
Its future is uncertain.
1/10

President Trump in the Oval Office holding up a signed Executive Order to photographers.

February 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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TAGHIVscience

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Complaint is here: www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

Press release link: doctorsforamerica.org/pr-removal-o...

February 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Jade Elektra

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Looking forward to the MINGLE at STUDIO 163 debut! We've found a new home and we'll be fundraising for @pozplanet.bsky.social magazine with special guest Amanda Roberts! 163 Queen St East 6-10 PM / Show & Raffle 8 PM. NO COVER but accepting donations. Come out and support Toronto!

January 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM

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Jade Elektra

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The February 2025 issue of POZPLANET Magazine is here! This month we get UP CLOSE & PERSONAL with @juanmichaelii.bsky.social with articles from Mark S. King, Deborah Norris, IAS and DJ Relentless

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January 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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NEW issue OUT NOW! Juan Michael Porter II, Mark S. King, Deborah Norris and more!

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January 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM

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TAGHIVscience

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Worse and worse. So much culpability to go around over the past decade as attacks on transgender people have escalated with depressingly little pushback.

Allison Chapman (she/her) @alli.gay · Jan 29

🚨BREAKING: Trump has signed an Executive Order that orders the Attorney General to coordinate with state and local AG's to " enforce the law and file appropriate actions" against teachers and schools that affirm a Childs gender, uses the correct pronouns, and more.

(iii) Each agency's process to prevent or rescind Federal funds, to the maximum
extent consistent with applicable law, from being used by an ESA, SEA, LEA,
elementary school, or secondary school to directly or indirectly support or subsidize
the social transition of a minor student, including through school staff or teachers or
through deliberately concealing the minor's social transition from the minor's
parents.

(c) The Attorney General shall coordinate with State attorneys general and local district attorneys in their efforts to enforce the law and file appropriate actions
against K-12 teachers and school officials who violate the law by:
(i) sexually exploiting minors; (ii) unlawfully practicing medicine by offering diagnoses and treatment without the
requisite license; or
(iii) otherwise unlawfully facilitating the social transition of a minor student.

(e) "Social transition" means the process of adopting a "gender identity" or "gender marker" that differs from a person's sex. This process can include psychological or psychiatric counseling or treatment by a school counselor or other provider; modifying a person's name (e.g., "Jane" to "James") or pronouns (e.g., "him" to "her"); calling a child "nonbinary"; use of intimate facilities and accommodations such as bathrooms or locker rooms specifically designated for persons of the opposite sex; and participating in school athletic competitions or other extracurricular activities specifically designated for persons of the opposite sex. "Social transition" does not
include chemical or surgical mutilation.

January 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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Matthew Hodson

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An emergency waiver will allow the continuation of PEPFAR to continue providing lifesaving HIV treatment to 20 million people worldwide.
We are at a key moment in the struggle, with new tools to treat and prevent HIV.
Now is not the time to halt efforts, now is the time to end the HIV epidemic.

The world with a red ribbon added to it and the text:

Keep the goal in sight
No new HIV infections
No AIDS deaths
No HIV stigma

January 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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A MUST READ for all PHAs, ASOs and everyone else in or adjacent to the HIV/AIDS field

Mark S. King @marksking.bsky.social · Jan 10

Exposed Document Links #HIV Leaders to 'Betrayal of People with HIV.' (Your mouth is gonna drop open at least once when you read this.) marksking.com/family-and-f...