Obama To Introduce National Strategy On HIV/AIDS, GLAAD Continues Condemnation Of The View’s Erroneous Ridiculous Remarks On African Americans And HIV, A&E Beefcake, Beached Boys, Simon Nessman

The Obama administration intends to introduce a new national strategy this Tuesday aimed at curtailing the AIDS epidemic, suggesting that the annual number of newly reported HIV infections be reduced by 25-percent within the next five years. The president’s plan is the result of 15 months of consultations with thousands of Americans. The historic first national AIDS strategy has been planned since the beginning of the administration and it is fuelled in large part by the frustrations expresses by some gay rights group who insist that more funding is needed for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. The exhaustive report will make a number of points, including mentioning that too many at risk individuals continue to resist testing, and as a consequence infections are unknowingly spread. To that point, the plan will call for more federal spending on HIV testing and prevention to states with the highest “burden of the disease.”

GLAAD continues its condemnation of ABC’s The View and statements made by co-host Sherri Shepherd and guest co-host D.L. Hughley during an episode that aired June 22nd in which the two erroneously subscribed the increase in newly reported HIV infections among heterosexual African-American women to bisexual African-American men who engage in homosexual activities “on the down low.” Executive producer Barbara Walters and ABC have yet to address GLAAD’s call that the show retract the statements and offer statistically correct information, and now the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has partnered with the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition and taken out an advertisement in Variety. The full-page ad in part reads that “the Centers for Disease Control has publically disproven this myth. And since June 22nd, thousands of people have written ABC, asking that The View provide correct information to viewers. Unfortunately, those requests have been greeted with silence from both ABC and The View.”

While you were watching HBO’s True Blood get all bears and werewolves, A&E unveiled something called The Glades, a detective show set in Florida, naturally, starring the cute Matt Passmore and Michael Roark, both of whom brought the beefcake. (NSFW)

An editorial that may or may not have something to do with the summer and with the shore, but is mostly about beautiful young men in and mostly out of clothes. (NSFW)

Sexy Simon Nessman is joined by Juan Miguel Mirangels in an editorial for the summer edition of L’Officiel Hommes featuring workout gear.