Loving Latinos
Josh Kruger spotlights Positivo, an AIDS organization's campaign that proves it’s love of Philadelphia's Latino HIV-positive community Positivo is the first of its kind program celebrating the lives...
View ArticleUnderwear night
Josh Kruger on the shocking experience of being (nearly) naked in public – or at least at the local gay bar Being in your underwear in front of a room full of people you’d plausibly date or have sex...
View ArticlePorn: the good four letter word
“Bareback pornography is hot” says the controiversial Josh Kruger in this original piece for PositiveLite.com Bareback pornography is hot. As gay men, we must get that very necessary affirmation out...
View ArticleThe Josh Kruger interview
Bathhouses, barebacking and bombshells. Bob Leahy interviews the controversial Philadelphia writer and PositiveLite.com columnist Josh Kruger. In this exclusive in-depth interview, the incorrigable...
View ArticleStraight women and gay men
The always controversial josh Kruger says “leave my penis alone: straight women sexualize gay men, not the other way around.” What do you think? In perhaps the most stunning example of feminist...
View ArticleSubversive sex
Josh Kruger on barebacking and non-traditional sex, “good gays” and their twisted view of the morality of it all Too often, those who engage in more subversive, at least in terms of “traditional”...
View ArticleOn police entrapment – and kicking the bushes
Josh Kruger says the police are trampling on LGBT constitutional rights through cruising stings As more LGBT Philadelphians return to the City of Brotherly Love from vacations in Rehoboth, down the...
View ArticleHow often do gay men have sex?
More than they will sometimes admit, it seems. Josh Kruger says “Girl, Please! 100% of gay men admit lying about self-reporting statistics’ Recently, reporting for aidsmap.com, Gus Cairns writes that...
View ArticleKeeping the T in LGBT
Josh Kruger writes about his own past transphobia and, says Josh, “there’s a systemic problem in the gay community in terms of a true belief in equality and rights for the trans community.” Growing up...
View ArticleJingo unchained
Josh Kruger on how barebackers are being marginalized by images featuring "good homosexuals" in “Homonationalism in the Age of Modern HIV” HIV transmission is on the stark rise among African Americans...
View ArticleWhy disclosure and condoms have no utility in modern HIV prevention
Josh Kruger says condom-based HIV prevention just isn’t working for gay men anymore and says the future lies in treatment and prevention. Despite traditional prevention efforts, HIV infections in the...
View ArticleUndetectable? No, you’re HIV+
Josh Kruger on the divide that having an undetectable viral load, or not, can sometimes represent in the HIV-positive community. And what does being undetectable have in common with being neg?...
View ArticleOn continuing or discontinuing HIV treatment
Josh Kruger on the decisions we face about whether to take HIV meds – and why he’s questioning his own choices. For the better part of a year, I have been writing advocating for those living with HIV...
View ArticleCondoms the new absintence only: Trojan/Durex sustaining HIV infections
Josh Kruger: “Until we recognize that condoms are just as effective as abstinence only .. and must be a small part of a more comprehensive approach to sexual health, we will be looking at more HIV...
View ArticleCrystal meth and me: the writer becomes the subject
Josh Kruger on the most popular hard drug in the gay community – and his experience with it. Crystal methamphetamine, or tina, is the most popular “hard” drug in the gay male community. This fact is...
View ArticleHello, I’m HIV positive
The negative reaction one gets about being positive. Josh Kruger and one from the archives My name is Josh Kruger and I’m HIV-positive. The details of my seroconversion are irrelevant. Whether I was a...
View ArticleOn the anniversary of my being “sober”
Josh Kruger looks back on the day he decided he was finally done with drinking - and asks why we do it. Late at night, I research and write by myself so I can avoid confronting the fact that I am...
View ArticleWhen is it “too much:” do gays have a problem with unpleasant facts?
Josh Kruger looks at depression – his own - and how mental health issues play out in the LGBT community. A decade ago, Dr. Susan Cochran at UCLA’s School of Public Health published findings from a...
View ArticleConfessions of an HIV+, sexually active man under 30
Josh Kruger on different times, different sexual tactics: “our experience as HIV+ people born post-AIDS outbreak is entirely different than that of those who lived during this time as sexual adults.”...
View ArticleCollision: sex, love, and pain as I near 30
Josh Kruger: “I have no other option than moving forward, both sexually and emotionally.” Whether it’s the miserable weather in Philadelphia right now or it’s the fact that I feel like I’m rapidly...
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