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In the beginning
Bob Leahy talks to one of CATIE’s founders, Sean Hosein, now its Science and Medicine Editor, about the early days of the organization. Almost everyone in Canada – and I dare say in many other...
View Article30 years of ACT: A conversation with Hazelle Palmer
As the AIDS Committee of Toronto, Canada’s largest AIDS service organization, turns 30-years-old, the agency’s executive director talks with PositiveLite.com about its past, present and future. The...
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Talking treatment as prevention with Julio Montaner
Bob Leahy sits down and asks the hard questions with treatment as prevention’s foremost proponent, Dr. Julio Montaner, head of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, while in...
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Unlimited intimacy
Editor Bob Leahy talks to Tim Dean about his controversial book “Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking” – and about what makes barebackers tick. “Seed is a gift, it’s love,...
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This PrEP-ed life
From TheBody.com comes an interview with PrEP-er Damon Jacobs on sex and dating in a new era of HIV prevention This article by Mathew Rodriguez first appeared on TheBody.com here. As a licensed...
View ArticleMeeting the Grindr guy
Bob Leahy interviews Jamie Woo, author of the new book Meet Grindr about the smart phone app for gay men that has changed the way some of us cruise. The Gay Men’s Sexual Health Summit is always an...
View ArticlePutting barebacking into context
Who barebacks and why? The AIDS Committee of Toronto’s bathhouse counsellor Rahim Thawer provides some answers. What are we really taking about when it comes to barebacking? This was the question...
View ArticleThe immigration and refugee rights of gay men and people living with HIV
Immigration and refugee rights in Canada are under siege and this is impacting people living with HIV. Toronto lawyer and human rights activist El Farouk Khaki, in a video interview, explains why this...
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A life turned upside down (part one)
Bob Leahy interviews Stephen, a hemophiliac who became HIV-positive at the age of 12 through receiving tainted blood, subsequently convicted of two charges of aggravated sexual assault for non...
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A life turned upside down (part two)
An extraordinary tale continues. Bob Leahy talks with Stephen, a hemophiliac who received tainted blood as a child. Here he’s just about to go to jail following two convictions for aggravated sexual...
View ArticleThe PositiveLite.com Pride Toronto video report, 2013 edition
The PositiveLite.com crew were on the street for Pride Toronto last week. In this video, publisher John McCullagh (with videographer Guy McLoughlin) speaks to some of the participants and partygoers...
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Positive sex
Amy Willis talks to Rick and Scott, the guys who facilitate GPS (Gay Positive Sex) groups in Toronto, designed to help positive gay men develop strategies for sex that work for each of them. I...
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Our Agenda - a new type of campaign
Bob Leahy talks to ACT’s John Maxwell from Ontario’s GMSH (Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance) about an innovative new campaign which explores the connections between gay men’s emotional, mental and...
View ArticleA totally gay tour of Congressional Cemetery
Mark S King with a video tour that explores the gay and/or HIV connections of the inhabitants of Washington’s Congressional Cemetery You haven’t lived until you have hosted a game show in a cemetery....
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World Hepatitis Day interview with Randy Verdone: The sequel
Bob Leahy, with Wayne Bristow’s help, talked to Hep C survivor Randy Verdone who overcame a background of drug use, sex work & prison time to turn his life around, regain his children, help people...
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