Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant is an independent journalist and blogger. She's written for AlterNet, Wired.com, Slate, the Guardian, Glamour, the New York Observer's Betabeat, Truthout, Jezebel and the award-winning $pread magazine, among others. Her essays have also appeared in Best Sex Writing. Her blog is postwhoreamerica.com.

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Ending Prostitution 'Central' to Ending AIDS, US Tells Supreme Court

Will Justices agree that requiring HIV service providers to oppose prostitution is necessary for ending AIDS?

Melissa Gira Grant

Anti-Prostitution Pledge Heads to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will now decide: can the government force aid recipients to oppose prostitution?

Melissa Gira Grant

Having AIDS Is Not a Crime: A DC March Demands an End to Discriminatory Police Tactics

Outside the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, thousands of activists took to the White House to call for an end to the laws...

Melissa Gira Grant

Protest Greets the International AIDS Conference in DC

With the return of the largest global AIDS conference to the US after a two decade absence, marginalized groups are still fighting for...

Melissa Gira Grant

AIDS Isn't Just a Public Health Issue, It's an Injustice

Can activists gathering in Washington, DC, for the International AIDS Conference get Obama and the world to listen?

Melissa Gira Grant

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