The MSM Strategic Planning Initiative in Conjunction with Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) and ACCESS Community Health & Research Center HIV/AIDS prevention program  are Co-sponsoring “Community Conversation”

Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 6-9 pm. AT ACCESS community Health & Research Center

6450 Maple Street, Dearborn, Mi 48126, Food will be provided

MDCH Estimates there are over 18,000 people currently living with HIV/AIDS in Michigan. Of which 14,500 are Men. Men who have sex with Men (MSM) accounts for the most HIV infection among Men in Michigan, about 68% have reported MSM behavior. Including MSM who were also injecting drugs users

Wayne County has one of the highest rates of HIV among MSM.

Did you know….

Every 9 and ½ minutes someone in the United States is infected with HIV

If the current trends persist, AIDS could claim up to 100 million lives worldwide by 2020, making it the worst epidemic in human history

In order to ensure that an adequate amount of food and supplies are available, it is highly recommended that you RSVP for this event. To RSVP or for more information about the community conversation please contact Andre Brown at browna16@michigan.gov  (313) 456-43692 or Christiano Ramazzotti  (313) 216-2253

Join us to celebrate Arabian Nights!

Friday, Jan 22nd, 2010

Featuring live Entertainment with Resident DJ Bashar Makhay spining your favorites Arabic Music

Hookah Bar & Middle Eastern Food  

Gigi’s; 16920 W. Warren Ave, Detroit, Mi 48228 Your $5 COVER benefits Al GAMEA and an HIV/AIDS Organization

Come play a frame with us, make new friends or bring
your friends with you to bowl @ Luxury Lanes, 600 E. 9 Mile Rd., Ferndale,
(248) 544-0530

Join us to celebrate Arabian Nights!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Featuring your hostess Crystal Harding and Resident D.J Bashar Makhay,who will be keeping you up all night listening to the best top hits in Arabic Music and middle eastern food.

Menjos  Complex

928 West McNichols Road
Detroit, MI 48203-2576
(313) 863-3934

Arabian Nights on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Menjos with Resident DJ Bashar & Special performances by Haifa, Nina and live vocal talent Lance Atallah.

Please join us on Wednesday October 14, 2009, 6.30pm-8.00pm at Affirmation in Ferndale, LGBT center “Affirmation located at Affirmations | 290 West 9 Mile Road | Ferndale, MI   48220

*“Sarina Paris”

With your favorite DJ Bashar.

Female Impersonators

Flavorful Hookah Bar

Where: club 9 (former Q bar); 141 W.9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI 48220

Your $5 COVER benefits Al GAMEA and an HIV/AIDS Organization

Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
By Timothy Williams and Tareq Maher

BAGHDAD - The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response has been swift and deadly.

In the past two months, the bodies of as many as 25 boys and men suspected of being gay have turned up in the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City, the police and friends of the dead say. Most have been shot, some multiple times. Several have been found with the word “pervert” in Arabic on notes attached to their bodies, the police said. (more…)

Friday, May 8th, 2009

With your favorite DJ Bashar.

Featuring: Female Impersonators; HAIFA

Flavorful Hookah Bar

Where: club 9 (former Q bar); 141 W.9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI 48220

Your $5 COVER benefits Al GAMEA and an HIV/AIDS Organization