Poz I Am Radio

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. http://tobtr.com/s/11116771

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 I

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

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.

"Award-winning writer and activist Mark S. King is the force behind the blog My Fabulous Disease. He has been speaking out on behalf of people living with HIV since testing HIV positive in 1985. His blog has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award three times and won the Nat'l Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association award twice. He was named "One of 13 Legendary AIDS Activists" by HIV Equal, and he tries not to let any of this make him feel old."

Davina Conner (Dee) was diagnosed with HIV 21 years ago. She’s an advocate, radio host,speaker,   a   founding   steering   committee   member   of   Prevention   access   campaign(UequalsU), Co-Chair of PWN Colorado and a member of the Denver HIV Planning Council,  Dee   obtained   her   Associates   Degree  in Public Health in  2018  and  is   now working towards her Bachelor’s Degree. She started a non-profit organization called PozHaven Foundation that started out as grassroots advocacy Dee mentors those newly diagnosed and individuals who are struggling mentally by way of telephone or in-home mentoring. She’s one of 4 advocates that is in the first UequalsU campaign in the United States called Positive Series. Davina started advocating because of the stigma that many go through being diagnosed with HIV and is determined to work hard for women of color, trans women and all women with HIV. Davina’s podcast Pozitively Dee Discussion has been running for 4 years and Dee uses her show as a platform to educate

My name is Sanjay Johnson and I currently live in Little Rock, Arkansas. I am a 25-year-old Black Gay man that works two jobs, seeks to use my creative outlets in the arts, and contribute to my community as I can. Unfortunately, in August 2017, my life was interrupted by the biggest challenge and ongoing nightmare that I couldn’t have imagined nor would wish upon anyone else. As a single young man, I chose to explore the world of meeting other like-minded individuals in an online format which resulted in myself meeting an individual for a consensual encounter. One day I was confronted at my front door by police with a complaint citing myself as “knowing and willfully exposing another to HIV.” I was immediately arrested and spent over a week in jail hoping that someone cared enough and would come to my rescue. Ultimately I must now prepare for a trial where an Arkansas jury will decide my fate based on their understanding or lack of knowledge about HIV or how far we’ve advanced in this health dilemma.  Please

Robert and Brady will be recapping their experience at Positive Living 21. If you attended the conference this year in Fort Walton Beach Florida and would like to share your experience call the show live and speak to the hosts,

Join us live for a special live show at 12pm EST.  Brady will be joining Robert live from USCA in Orlando Florida to talk about his expereince there as a panelist and attendee.

Robert and Brady will be joined by Butch Mckay of   Okaloosa AIDS Support & Informational Service (OASIS) will be joining. Butch and the Positive Living Conference will be celebrating 21 years in Ft. Walton Beach Florida - Sept. 14th-16th. Learn more at www.oasisflorida.org 

During this live broadcast Robert & Brady will be taking your calls and questions during our Hot Topic LIVE broadcast. Call the show at (929) 477-3572 

Bruce Richman returns to the show to give Robert an update on the U=U campaign and  to share about his time at the International AIDS confrence in Amsterdam. Bruce is the Founding Executive Director of PAC and the "Undetectable = Untransmittable  (U=U)"campaign (#UequalsU). Bruce was honored for his work with U=U as Healthline's HIV influencers"2017 Person of the Year"and named Plus Magazine "#1 Most Amazing HIV + People of 2018", and he received the 2017 Partnership Award from the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. Diagnosed with HIV in 2003, Bruce learned in 2012 that his undetectable viral load meant he could not transmit HIV. He committed to sharing this life-changing information in the hope that people with HIV and their partners will live healthy sexual and reproductive lives free of fear and stigma.

Jesus Guillen, is an immigrant, Latino, Gay, Single, 32 years HIV Long Term Survivor, who at the end, even if it sounds corny, is simply a human being who wants to help others, Jesus is one of the founders of one of the older GAY LATINO groups in SF: "AGUILAS"; he is also the founder and administrator of the incredibly diverse HIV LONG TERM SURVIVORS group in social media, with close to 5000 members. At the local level, he is the co-chair of the HIV and AGING workgroup in SF; member of the LTCCC- Long Term Care Coordinating Council- in SF as well. Jesus Guillen is honored to be the "poster boy" for the Emmy awarded documentary "LAST MEN STANDING", first and only documentary from the San Francisco Chronicle. Jesus is an independent HIV and Aging consultant who works with agencies, organizations, politicians, pharmaceuticals and anyone who wants to work in the common goal of helping our community, because he believes deeply in "WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER". Please watch the documentary "LAST MEN STANDING" followi

Recently named on the 2017 Healthline HIV Influence Honors List for "Best Advocate for Female HIV Health", Kamaria Laffrey continues to serve as an international HIV advocate, speaker and consultant working on HIV decriminalization, treatment adherence, as well as women and girl's empowerment of health. Since her diagnosis in 2003, Kamaria has worked to empower others at risk for HIV and living with the virus to live beyond the societal and self-induced stigma of HIV through sharing her personal journey. Since 2007, she has used news and print media, social networks, conferences, blogs, and various campaigns as a platform to examine and speak on issues she identifies as hindering empowerment such as self-esteem, abandonment, distrust and other barriers. Her personal goal is to work through her developing community based organization, emPOWERed Legacies and provide tools that will help her community towards embracing healing, giving inspiration and living victorious with HIV. Through her public speaking, one o