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
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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
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...
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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…
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
I'm grateful to everyone who fought so that people living with HIV could survive. And though it might be easier to run away, I will continue to fight for liberation in their names.
It's the only way any of us will have a chance to live, dance, & thrive.
#JMPII
It's the only way any of us will have a chance to live, dance, & thrive.
#JMPII
September 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm grateful to everyone who fought so that people living with HIV could survive. And though it might be easier to run away, I will continue to fight for liberation in their names.
It's the only way any of us will have a chance to live, dance, & thrive.
#JMPII
It's the only way any of us will have a chance to live, dance, & thrive.
#JMPII
It's National Dance Day in the States.
Celebrate as you will―even if you're in a tiny space that limits your movement. Even if your body is limited in what it can do.
Just #dance, for the sake of dancing.
Celebrate as you will―even if you're in a tiny space that limits your movement. Even if your body is limited in what it can do.
Just #dance, for the sake of dancing.
September 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's National Dance Day in the States.
Celebrate as you will―even if you're in a tiny space that limits your movement. Even if your body is limited in what it can do.
Just #dance, for the sake of dancing.
Celebrate as you will―even if you're in a tiny space that limits your movement. Even if your body is limited in what it can do.
Just #dance, for the sake of dancing.
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When I was young, I didn't understand the myth of Cassandra because to my young brain, if someone was telling you that disaster was coming, the adults would want to change it. I miss being that naive. And of course no one listened to Cassandra, she's a woman.
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
When I was young, I didn't understand the myth of Cassandra because to my young brain, if someone was telling you that disaster was coming, the adults would want to change it. I miss being that naive. And of course no one listened to Cassandra, she's a woman.
Let's invest our energy in liberating our communities and avoid cultivating our minds for white supremacy.
AKA: If all you're doing is talking about white supremacy, you're not doing anything for the people who rely on you for safety, comfort, & love. Water the flowers instead of the weeds.
AKA: If all you're doing is talking about white supremacy, you're not doing anything for the people who rely on you for safety, comfort, & love. Water the flowers instead of the weeds.
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Let's invest our energy in liberating our communities and avoid cultivating our minds for white supremacy.
AKA: If all you're doing is talking about white supremacy, you're not doing anything for the people who rely on you for safety, comfort, & love. Water the flowers instead of the weeds.
AKA: If all you're doing is talking about white supremacy, you're not doing anything for the people who rely on you for safety, comfort, & love. Water the flowers instead of the weeds.
I'll be in Korea for the next two weeks. My responsiveness is slower than usual. But if you know how to send a punk, queer, trans owl ― you can definitely reach me.
Meanwhile, get your legs up, put a ring on it, and smile.
Meanwhile, get your legs up, put a ring on it, and smile.
September 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'll be in Korea for the next two weeks. My responsiveness is slower than usual. But if you know how to send a punk, queer, trans owl ― you can definitely reach me.
Meanwhile, get your legs up, put a ring on it, and smile.
Meanwhile, get your legs up, put a ring on it, and smile.
I spoke to the CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI Clinical Trials Research about continuing the mission to contain #HIV, even without PEPFAR or support from the U.S.
www.ctnplus.ca/news/picking...
www.ctnplus.ca/news/picking...
September 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I spoke to the CIHR Pan-Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI Clinical Trials Research about continuing the mission to contain #HIV, even without PEPFAR or support from the U.S.
www.ctnplus.ca/news/picking...
www.ctnplus.ca/news/picking...
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The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV.
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV.
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
For decades.
Some of the most harmful pieces of propaganda is the lie that Black people are inherently violent. Most people who are victims of violent crime are victimized by people who look like them. This is true for all people, not just Black people. Crime stats orgs have found this to be true for decades.
September 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
For decades.
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"I am the problem, but I am also the solution."
September 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"I am the problem, but I am also the solution."
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Today, the Caucus is joining an action to #SaveHIVFunding w our peers where we unveil the #CutsKill AIDS Quilt Unveiled on Capitol Hill lawn.
It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!
It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Today, the Caucus is joining an action to #SaveHIVFunding w our peers where we unveil the #CutsKill AIDS Quilt Unveiled on Capitol Hill lawn.
It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!
It is our revival of the AIDS Memorial Quilt only we're not mourning ― we're demanding access so that our community can live & thrive!
I keep getting stares because of my shirt.
I guess people need a reminder that #HIV Is Not a Crime.
Thank you SERO Project for the shirt and for empowering us all to share this message.
#NoHIVStigma
I guess people need a reminder that #HIV Is Not a Crime.
Thank you SERO Project for the shirt and for empowering us all to share this message.
#NoHIVStigma
September 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I keep getting stares because of my shirt.
I guess people need a reminder that #HIV Is Not a Crime.
Thank you SERO Project for the shirt and for empowering us all to share this message.
#NoHIVStigma
I guess people need a reminder that #HIV Is Not a Crime.
Thank you SERO Project for the shirt and for empowering us all to share this message.
#NoHIVStigma
We can applaud Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, for leaving CDC and excoriating its current misinformation agenda without deifying him.
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We can applaud Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, for leaving CDC and excoriating its current misinformation agenda without deifying him.
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Are you ready to caucus with the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social?We've released our schedule for USCHA. Join us and let's make it happen.
Be sure to visit us at our booth in the Exhibition Hall. We sharing information, listening to what people need, and making plans for the future.
See you in DC!
Be sure to visit us at our booth in the Exhibition Hall. We sharing information, listening to what people need, and making plans for the future.
See you in DC!
August 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Are you ready to caucus with the @plhivcaucus.bsky.social?We've released our schedule for USCHA. Join us and let's make it happen.
Be sure to visit us at our booth in the Exhibition Hall. We sharing information, listening to what people need, and making plans for the future.
See you in DC!
Be sure to visit us at our booth in the Exhibition Hall. We sharing information, listening to what people need, and making plans for the future.
See you in DC!
Him: But you don't look like you have HIV.
Funny thing. Yeah I do
When we have access to antiretroviral therapy, #HIV looks like having a family, learning to cook, having sex, & dancing at home in your undies.
B/c of the science of viral suppression & U=U, we aren't just surviving―we're thriving.
Funny thing. Yeah I do
When we have access to antiretroviral therapy, #HIV looks like having a family, learning to cook, having sex, & dancing at home in your undies.
B/c of the science of viral suppression & U=U, we aren't just surviving―we're thriving.
August 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Him: But you don't look like you have HIV.
Funny thing. Yeah I do
When we have access to antiretroviral therapy, #HIV looks like having a family, learning to cook, having sex, & dancing at home in your undies.
B/c of the science of viral suppression & U=U, we aren't just surviving―we're thriving.
Funny thing. Yeah I do
When we have access to antiretroviral therapy, #HIV looks like having a family, learning to cook, having sex, & dancing at home in your undies.
B/c of the science of viral suppression & U=U, we aren't just surviving―we're thriving.