A Moroccan-themed cocktail and dance party benefitting AIDS Walk Oklahoma City is June 2 on the roof of Cardinal Engineering.
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Oklahoma AIDS Care Fund continues to fight and advocate
An Oklahoma nonprofit remains outspoken and holds annual fundraisers to fight AIDS in the state.
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Dallas Buyers Club
With Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallée (The Young Victoria) takes the cinematic liberty to tell Woodroof’s story, revisiting the 1980s during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when rampant conservatism, Reagan’s War on Drugs and the Christian right dominated American culture. In what appears to be the role of his career, an overwhelmingly […]
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Nothing to smile about
Credit: Brad Gregg So if you’re one of those people who avoid the dentist as if it’s crawling with HIV, here’s an unsettling fact for you: It might be. On March 28, the state Department of Health, the Tulsa Health Department and the state Board of Dentistry issued warnings of possible infection from blood-borne viruses […]
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Living with AIDS
Whitney Karby and her youngest daughter, Rianna Whitney Karby, a 39-year-old mother of six and grandmother of three, learned she had HIV in spring 2008. That’s when the Oklahoma City- County Health Department notified her that she had been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. “I was pregnant with my youngest daughter at the time,” […]
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Peep show
City-based writer/director Robert Matson has resurrected — or is it re-erected? — his original hit play, “Beneath the Zipper,” a celebration of the penis, at The Boom. Think “The Vagina Monologues” for men, but less heady. Which is fine, because I don’t think Matson is looking to change the world as much as entertain people. […]
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LETTERS
‘COVER’ IT UP To Misha Klein, the parent who said your Nov. 24 Oklahoma Gazette Donny Vomit cover was inappropriate for her child (Letters, “Nail files,” Dec. 8): Why doesn’t she take responsibility and put her Gazette where it can’t be seen by her little angel? Like the old adage says, “If you don’t like […]