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Charles Sanchez is an openly gay, HIV+ writer, performer, director and activist living in New York City. He is one of the co-founders of Skipping Boyz Productions, and conceived, writes and stars in the award-winning HIV musical comedy web series, Merce (MerceTheSeries.com).  His acting career has taken him from Lincoln Center and Off-Broadway, to the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Murry’s Dinner Playhouse in Little Rock, AR. Since being diagnosed with full blown AIDS in 2003, he has added activist to his resume.  Sanchez is a Contributing Editor for TheBody.com and has had essays published on PositivelyAware.com, Them.us and HuffPost Queer Voices.  He was included in Healthline.com's list of HIV Honors: The Most Influential Voices of 2017, and was honored in POZ Magazine's 2018 POZ 100, celebrating people over 50 making a difference in the fight against HIV and the stigma surrounding it.

Robert & Brady are thrilled to be speaking with Jason Alvin about his diagnosis and his daily FB LIVE show which captures him taking his HIV medication.

About Jason:

My name is Jason Alvin, and since my diagnosis with HIV in 2015, I have become a vocal advocate spreading the good news about recent HIV developments such as #PrEP and #UequalsU to friends family and strangers through facebook.  I have been taking my HIV medication live on facebook every day for over 2 years.  The community that has grown  around the show has been a tremendous source of support through what for me has been a really difficult diagnosis.  I am a registered nurse and worked on an inpatient psychiatric unit for 12 years.  I am a mental health professional, but I am also a patient.  I am married and have 2 sons that are 8 and 7 years old.

Watch Jason is a Social Scientist

Join Robert Breining , Brady Dale Morris and Josh Robbins as they recap the guests and the HIVScoops of 2018.

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Positively Fearless is a campaign brought to you by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson – that’s s redefining what it means to live with HIV and showing those living with HIV what is possible when you live “Positively Fearless”. Join me and the other Positively Fearless ambassadors as we reflect on the resilience, strength and fearlessness of the HIV community. Join the community on Instagram @PositivelyFearless and visit PositivelyFearless.com to learn more about how you can live Positively Fearless.

HENRY GOLDRING is a product of the Midwest/Orrville, Ohio, and has lived for 25 years between New York City and Los Angeles. He studied piano & music at The College of Wooster in Ohio and The School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, and theatre at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California and with actress Ellen Burstyn in Los Angeles. He has appeared in theatre, on Norman Lear TV sitcoms with Bea Arthur and Bonnie Franklin and sung in night-clubs on both coasts. Henry has opened for comedienne Joan Rivers and his accompanist in New York was Arsenio Hall’s Band Leader, Jazz Pianist Michael Wolf.

Although MR. GOLDRING shies away from labels, he is most proud of his personal journey as an HIV+ person navigating prejudice and misconceptions through writing (two theatrical productions and a memoir) and sharing his story on College Campuses, Podcasts/Radio and Book Fairs. Henry recently returned from West Chester University in Pennsylvania on a panel examining “LGBTQ Jews In the US and the UK” alongside British trans activist Shaan Surat Knan.

Join Robert & Brady live Sunday Dec 2nd at 2pm EST when they sit down with the Zee Strong. Zee runs 3 HIV\AIDS related Facebook groups but you may recognize the name Zee Strong from the countless frames he has created across social medi. these frames were created  in hopes of destroying the stigma associated with the disease and have been used by 1000's. Call the show (929) 477-3572 with your questions, comments.

During this live broadcast the Robert and Brady will be taking your calls about a range of hot topics related to living with HIV. Some topics that will be dicussed are depression,stigma,disclosure, finding a doctor etc.. Call the hosts live at  (929) 477-3572 with your questions or comments.

Janine Brignola, the chick once known as HIVchick on YouTube returns to POZ I AM Radio.

For the last 12 years since finding out I was HIV positive I have ran the spectrum from behind the scenes to big mouth, loud activist to putting on that blazer and sitting quietly and politely while fitting more into my societal standard gender role and what’s socially acceptable. I have graduated from a private college, secured a pretty cool big opportunity career then left the corporate man gig, got sober from alcohol (even with some relapses), lost over 120+ lbs, raised a pretty cool kid, and finally realized that my biggest success in life had been realizing that happiness is what we all want and happiness comes when you realize that success is living your life according to your standards and what is right for you; not the man, not society, not anyone else.

My hope to accomplish with activism is awareness and prevention. Enlightenment and understanding. For myself and others.

I want to show people that HIV doesn’t define a person and they can still do anything they want; as I have and am. That we can choose our path and not sometimes but every time. No matter the obstacles, no matter the setbacks and no matter others negative and ignorant opinions on it. So yeah, this is my bio and I wrote it, in first person, and this my friends is what HIV looks like and what it looks like to have HIV and rock the hell out of it. So take whatever “bad” you’re given and create the life you want! I did and I have barely gotten started.

Billy Eugene Willis III is a activist based out of Central North Carolina. He has been living with HIV for 5 years, and advocating for HIV rights for the past 4. Billy was on the task force of people living with HIV and HIV professionals that helped modernize The NC Health Department’s HIV Control Measure. He has had many roles in his advocacy career, but his favorite is being a Youth Ambassador at Youth Across Borders (YAB). He visited Honduras this year with YAB to connect with youth PLWHIV. This activist’s next big projects are aimed at using art and entertainment to help fight against HIV stigma in his state.

Katie Willingham is a woman of transgender experience in rural north Alabama, diagnosed in June of 2000 but didn’t step into advocacy until January 2017, she now serves as Chair of Prevention for Thrive Alabama’s Community Advisory Board, sits on the HIV Prevention and Care Planning Group of the Alabama Department of Public Health, Policy Fellow and Alabama State Lead with the Positive Women’s Network, blogger for The Well Project’s A Girl Like Me blogging forum, and proud U=U minion. She also runs 3 Facebook groups: Alabama Poz Life, Alabama Transgender Coalition and PWN Alabama members and allies.