Word: chiasson
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...Morning After and The Test accurately depict the real world because the researchers who worked on the films know the data so well. One of the researchers behind the film, Mary Ann Chiasson, 58, worked for the New York City Department of Health for nearly 14 years, beginning in June 1986. It was important to her in conceiving the character Josh not to create a gay man who would be an extreme caricature. Josh drinks too much, but he isn't a bug-eyed crystal-meth addict because - despite many lurid news stories - very few gay men who have unsafe...
...Chiasson's research has found some reasons to be hopeful: gay men who meet their sex partners online (as most young gay men do) rather than in bars are significantly less likely to report substance use before sex and significantly more likely to disclose their HIV status before sex. It's easier to ask someone if he is positive when he is just a screen name...
...surprising that the HIV discussion is so hard to have. Death isn't much of an aphrodisiac. But Chiasson and her colleagues have found that men who watch The Morning After are three times more likely to disclose their HIV status the next time they hook up. That's not a bad start...
...market determined who gets to the top, we would lose some of our most valuable poets and the freedom and style along with it.” “I didn’t ever feel burdened by the past at all at Harvard,” adds Chiasson. “I never felt that, and if anyone ever feels that, just remember all the awful poets that have come out of Harvard over the years. The place felt like it was in a state of high intoxication, and it was very good...
With the Governor's new plan in place, maybe those funds really will start getting there. Meanwhile, the street has been rebuilding itself without them. Noah Chiasson, 58, lives in Lakeview along the rim of Lake Pontchartrain. He and his wife bunk on the undamaged second floor of their house. They have no gas, no phone, no TV, no postal service. But they're O.K. With few lighted houses around him, it gets so dark after sundown that it's possible again to see stars in the nighttime sky. "But every night I look out the window now, there...