We Want to Thank the Academy…

It’s been a phenomenal year for Plus magazine and our sister brand The Advocate, with a number of awards piling up. The latest: Josh Robbins — who launched his digital series, HIV Video Minute, on our website in 2014 and later took it wide on his own blog, I’m Still Josh — just won the ADAP Advocacy Association’s Leadership Award for Best Social Media Campaign.”  (You can find his videos at HIVPlusMag.com/hiv-plus-video-minute.)

Even more exciting: The Marguerite Casey Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2015 Equal Voice Fellowship, which goes to journalists who are investigating and reporting on critical poverty issues in underserved communities, and we were on the list! Plus contributing editor Jacob Anderson-Minshall beat out dozens of other journalists for his upcoming series examining the intersection between poverty, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV. The fellowship is small, but it’ll fund his travel to meet with interviewees and his research needed to focus on the criminalization of HIV, the role incarceration plays in HIV transmission, the link between depression and HIV, and the stacked odds against trans women with HIV. His work will begin appearing in the January/February 2016 issue of Plus and on our website as well, so stay tuned!