Antiretroviral medications for HIV-positive people are becoming scarce in Colombia – what information do we have about this situation? And what does this have to do with the elections in a few weeks’ time? Where do the candidates stand on this issue, and what can we expect from them?
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Articles on art, activism, politics, HIV, sex, drugs and club culture
NO EMERGENCY EXIT – Love Lazers CSD Speech 2025
The Love Lazers will be speaking on July 27, 2025 in Berlin at the CSD demonstration on the IWWIT parade truck (“Ich weiß was ich tu – I know what I’m doing” is the federal campaign for gay and queer prevention of the German AIDS-Hilfe) – motto: “PRIDE is our PROTEST – Never be silent again!”…
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10 YEARS LAZER AND LOVE: ANGRY, TENDER AND PRETTY LOCO
A decade ago we launched the Lazer rocket, we’ve flown high and we’re still going strong! – Exactly 10 years ago today, we met for the first time to write the first version of our PrEP leaflet. Printed hundreds of thousands of times, it was a mega-success: it was the first ever published in …
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KIKI VIRAL AND ACTIVIST INTERVENTION EN COLOMBIA 03/2023
Together with Ballroom Pereira, Love Lazers organize a Kiki Ball (March 11) with open mics to talk and dance about HIV and stigma in the ballroom scene. In addition, we promote our information on PrEP by the EPS health insurances, including Love Lazers new sticker campaign and an activist intervention at Museo Mambo in Bogotá (March 16).
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LLTV, TELEVISION MEGAACTIVISTA: SEP, 11 (PEREIRA/COL) + SEP, 25 (BERLÍN, GER)
TV IS DEAD. LONG LIVE LLTV! Love Lazers is continuing its Activist Streams with public Live Talks from Pereira and Berlin July – Sep 2021!!!
11TH OF SEP: PEREIRA/COL
12:00-22:00 COL UTC+5
19:00-05:00 GER UTC-1
Livestream:
https://twitch.tv/lovelazers
PUBLIC EVENT:
ESPACIO VASTO, Cra 13B 32-37 CON REMATE!
con presentadorxs: Pantera Yeguaza/Bogotá y Jugo Rosa/Pereira
25TH OF SEP: BERLIN/GER
Tuntenhaus Berlin, Kastanienallee 86 (??h?? tba)
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NEXT LOVE LAZERS TV: March 6th. FROM BOGOtÁ
Yes, there will be internet transmission!
Live transmission with talk and show, music and live entertainment in English and Spanish/German, partly subtitled. We wanna talk about stuff and have fun also. LLTV is about contact and live is live!
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AT THE SPEAKERS ON THE LEFT
… was an exhibition at Objekt klein a, whose works and texts were shown on the dance floors of the Dresden club. The ravers could put the motifs – printed on postcards – in their pockets and take them home later.
Where we will find a continuation of the exhibition that started in 2018-2019 has already been decided: at the boxes on the left. Only when – that is still unclear.
WHO RISKS LIFE FOR A GOOD FLIP
A conversation with Pvssy divx, Honey Vergony and Ixjona_tamara, who arrived in Berlin in July after being locked for months in Madrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As members of the House of TUPAMARAS they are engaged in dancing, choreographing, managing and animating the “Balls”. Besides this project they also perform solo as contemporary dancers.
man*Check, The Pink Post & LoveLazers speak with them about lockdown in Madrid, sexdates and new experiences of being high in the gay queer scenes. Continue reading WHO RISKS LIFE FOR A GOOD FLIP
MEPHISTO, I’M FUCKING SOOO HIGH!
Well, then let’s talk about us: All about being horny and high, about chemsex and love, party and play. The Mephisto Texts, an edition of user reports, all collected by Love Lazers.
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Stigma in The Times of PrEP
Alejandro from The Pink Post in conversation with Falk from Love Lazers about PrEP and the possibility of taking it daily or on demand. Who is PrEP for? Where do fears of getting HIV come from, even though being undetectable is completely safe? What is the point of view of people with HIV throughout the discussion? Can I hide my immune status in gay cruising apps (if I am asked)? And what happens if there is no agreement on condom/PrEP use during sex? Continue reading Stigma in The Times of PrEP
HYPER MASCULINITY POETRY
A contribution by the “mikro-keller-crew”:
The poetry show, which was shown in the cellar at the Tuntenhaushoffest July 2018 in Berlin, is printed here again. In October 2018 the exhibition was shown at the Hot Club at the Koch-Areal in Zurich. The text of the exhibition with an introduction – and thoughts on why this exhibition has to be – is documented at the end.
BE A LOVE LAZER – Declaration
Good News – An activist pronouncement in nine points
Berlin. Bogotá. Love Lazers.
I met Mikrobio one night in New York, 8 years ago, we made an instant click and the next day we were traveling together outside of the city. During these years our friendship has become a place of support and collaboration. His work with nightlife in Berlin, techno and activism has motivated me. When he told me about Love Lazers, which is basically a group of friends, sexy nerds, lovers of nightlife, cruising, and activists for the right to have a free and healthy sexuality. I invited him to Colombia then, to do some activism together before the tremendous silence that exists regarding HIV in the country. Scary !!!
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Love Kuir Lazers
L O V E K U I R L A Z E R S
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Our program at the KUIR FEST BOGOTÁ in November 2018
Open lecture, workshop and photographic exhibition November 17 to 30 at El Sanatorio. The Project Love Lazers is an information activist group that is working for knowledge and free access to PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), a new medical option for the prevention of HIV / AIDS in the form of a pill that we hope will be available to all of you very soon.
Launched in 2015, Love Lazers currently consists of eight activists in Berlin, Zürich, Bogotá and Leipzig, focusing on working in nightlife and Internet spaces. Some of the members of the group are in homosexual and discordant relationships (HIV + and -) and have been educated in the fields of art, sociology, medicine and law. Some have long experience in the areas of prevention and information about drugs. Others also work as artists, djs and programmers. Their work network expands slowly and they are independent of any specific institution.
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Better Sliding (with lube recipe!)
A lubricant (or short: lube) is a substance which makes sex more slippy. It reduces the friction between skin and skin, or between skin and the rubber of a condom. Lube can subjectively amplify or attenuate the sensibility of your erogenous zone (you feel that’s more horny or less horny). If you feel an unpleasant pain while fucking, you can apply some lube which will ease the pain – much more efficiently than spit would. Continue reading Better Sliding (with lube recipe!)
Cruising Apps & Stigma HIV
Documentation of a real Grindr chat from May 2018. The screenshot was shown and discussed at the Love Lazers exhibition in the queer Art Space El Parche in Bogotá (Colombia) 22nd of May.
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Why PrEP? (PrEP Manifesto)
PREP MANIFESTO
Author: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together!) – Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, Carlos Maria Romero
Year: 2017