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KIMBERLY DAVIS & TONY MORAN<br />
Are Good for the Dance Floor<br />
The first collaboration between<br />
twice Grammy-nominated<br />
music maker Tony Moran and<br />
powerhouse vocalist Kimberly<br />
Davis produced last summer’s<br />
#1 smash, “My Fire.” Now the<br />
two are following up it with a<br />
new dance floor scorcher that<br />
is pure perfection for the<br />
spring season of love, “You’re<br />
Good for Me.”<br />
Photo Credit: Patricia Nieto<br />
It’s an empowering track<br />
that blends dance with R&B<br />
for an urban pop record that<br />
celebrates the very important<br />
people who bless our lives. It<br />
also reminds anyone waiting<br />
for love that their special<br />
someone is out there.<br />
After the wild success of<br />
“My Fire,” you must have<br />
known you would need to<br />
follow it with another song.<br />
Tony Moran: We knew<br />
it would be a good idea.<br />
Luckily, we had already<br />
recorded “You’re Good for<br />
Me” for my “Moodswings”<br />
album, so we were just<br />
waiting for the perfect time<br />
to release it.<br />
Kimberly Davis: I wanted<br />
to release “You’re Good for<br />
Me” right away but Tony,<br />
Mike [Greenly, songwriter]<br />
and everyone at the label<br />
thought it best to hold until<br />
now, right at the beginning<br />
of the spring season when<br />
everyone is ready to fall in<br />
love.<br />
Who or what inspired<br />
“You’re Good for Me?”<br />
Kimberly Davis: The idea<br />
for the song came about<br />
through a conversation I<br />
was having with lyricist Mike<br />
Greenly. It was one of those<br />
deep talks that got me<br />
thinking about all the many<br />
dreams I’ve had throughout<br />
my singing career that, for<br />
whatever reason, fell apart.<br />
Oh, how I grieved for them,<br />
but upon reflection, I came<br />
to realize that for each<br />
disappointment, right before<br />
I was about to leap off the<br />
deep end, I always found the<br />
most important man in my<br />
life there beside me.<br />
Is that Tony Moran?<br />
Kimberly Davis: I’m lucky to<br />
have many wonderful men<br />
in my life. First is my boo,<br />
my husband, my soulmate;<br />
he makes each moment<br />
worth living. Then I have my<br />
musical Prince Charmings,<br />
Tony Moran and Mike<br />
Greenly, who inspire me to<br />
sing my heart out every day<br />
and night. But the man that<br />
is always beside me, through<br />
good times and bad, is my<br />
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<br />
Though he may not always<br />
give me what I want, he<br />
always gives me what I need,<br />
and deep in my soul, I know<br />
that everything happens for<br />
a reason.
How did you two start<br />
working together?<br />
Tony Moran: I first<br />
heard Kimberly on her<br />
amazing “With You”<br />
single. I loved the song,<br />
and I remembered being<br />
transfixed by that voice.<br />
Kimberly Davis: This little<br />
thing?<br />
Tony Moran: There is<br />
nothing little about your<br />
instrument! It was like<br />
listening to Whitney<br />
or Mary J. I knew right<br />
then and there that I<br />
needed to get her on my<br />
“Moodswings” album.<br />
“Moodswings” is your<br />
album of original dance<br />
songs sung by leading<br />
dance artists, including<br />
Martha Wash.<br />
Tony Moran: “You’re<br />
Good for Me” is the<br />
sixth single release from<br />
“Moodswings.”<br />
It has yielded three<br />
Billboard #1s: Jason<br />
Walker’s “Say Yes,”<br />
Zhana Roiya’s “Lick Me<br />
Up” and, of course,<br />
Kimberly’s “My Fire.”<br />
Tony Moran: It’s been<br />
an amazing experience<br />
right from the beginning.<br />
Collaborating with<br />
talented artists is what<br />
drives me in my artistry. I<br />
thrive off the brilliance of<br />
true artists.<br />
Did you know right<br />
away that you had a #1<br />
hit on your hands with<br />
“My Fire”?<br />
Tony Moran: I did.<br />
Kimberly Davis: I didn’t.<br />
I prayed for it, but I never<br />
imagined it would actually<br />
happen. We definitely<br />
have to give props to the<br />
gay clubbers. They’re<br />
the ones that brought the<br />
song all the way to #1.<br />
It’s still on heavy rotation<br />
at most gay clubs. Have<br />
you performed it at Pride<br />
events?<br />
Kimberly Davis: Yes, I’ve<br />
been fortunate enough to<br />
play a handful of them! I<br />
love a live crowd. There is<br />
nothing like connecting<br />
with an audience and<br />
witnessing how happy the<br />
music makes them. Seeing<br />
a mob of people twirling<br />
to your song is magical.<br />
As the lead member in<br />
Chic, you get to perform<br />
stages around the world.<br />
How did you become a<br />
part of the legendary<br />
group?<br />
Kimberly Davis: I was<br />
working a regular 9 to 5<br />
when I learned about the<br />
audition. I left my job at<br />
lunch time, and hundreds<br />
of girls were lined up!<br />
When my time came, I<br />
belted out the classic Chic<br />
song, “I Want Your Love,”<br />
and the manager handed<br />
me the itinerary for the<br />
rest of the year, right in<br />
front of all the other girls<br />
still on line! I went back to<br />
work, gathered my things<br />
and quit that day. That was<br />
eight years ago. I’ve been<br />
with Chic ever since.<br />
Did I read that you were<br />
almost part of En Vogue?<br />
Kimberly Davis: Yes, I was<br />
asked to replace one of<br />
the girls for a world tour.<br />
It’s actually an example<br />
of one of the things in my<br />
singing career that, for<br />
whatever reason, fell apart.<br />
Everything happens for a<br />
reason. If it’s meant to be,<br />
it will be. It’s up to me, as it<br />
is for all of us, to keep our<br />
eyes on the prize.<br />
Tony Moran: You’re the<br />
prize, Kimberly.<br />
Kimberly Davis: Is it any<br />
wonder why I love this<br />
man?<br />
What’s next for you<br />
guys?<br />
Tony Moran: We’re busy<br />
promoting “You’re Good<br />
for Me.” We’d love to get<br />
this one to #1, too! Then,<br />
of course, more music,<br />
more collaborations…<br />
Kimberly Davis: I’m<br />
looking into doing some<br />
acting as well. I’m ready<br />
for it all.<br />
Photo Credit: Patricia Nieto
What is TRUVADA for PrEP?<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)<br />
is a prescription medicine that is used together<br />
with safer sex practices to help reduce the risk<br />
of getting HIV-1 through sex. This use is only for<br />
HIV-negative adults who are at high risk of getting<br />
HIV-1. To help determine your risk of getting HIV-1,<br />
talk openly with your healthcare provider about<br />
your sexual health.<br />
Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions<br />
about how to prevent getting HIV. Always practice<br />
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of sexual contact with body fl uids. Never reuse or<br />
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What is the most important information I<br />
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® You must be HIV-negative before you start<br />
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risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confi rmed<br />
to be HIV-negative.<br />
® Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection<br />
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the neck or groin.<br />
While taking TRUVADA for PrEP:<br />
® You must continue to use safer sex<br />
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may not keep you from getting HIV-1.<br />
® You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP:<br />
® <strong>Get</strong> tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months.<br />
® If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell<br />
your healthcare provider right away.<br />
® To further help reduce your risk of getting<br />
HIV-1:<br />
® Know your HIV status and the HIV status of<br />
your partners.<br />
® <strong>Get</strong> tested for other sexually transmitted<br />
infections. Other infections make it easier<br />
for HIV to infect you.<br />
® <strong>Get</strong> information and support to help reduce<br />
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® Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing<br />
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® If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need<br />
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TRUVADA can cause serious side effects:<br />
® Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection.<br />
TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you have<br />
HBV and stop taking TRUVADA, your HBV may<br />
suddenly get worse. Do not stop taking TRUVADA<br />
without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider,<br />
as they will need to monitor your health.<br />
Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP?<br />
Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you:<br />
® Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do<br />
not know your HIV-1 status. If you are HIV-1<br />
positive, you need to take other medicines with<br />
TRUVADA to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not<br />
a complete treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1<br />
and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become<br />
harder to treat over time.<br />
® Also take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B<br />
infection.<br />
What are the other possible side effects of<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP?<br />
Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include:<br />
® Kidney problems, including kidney failure.<br />
Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to<br />
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® Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic<br />
acidosis), which is a serious but rare medical<br />
emergency that can lead to death. Tell your<br />
healthcare provider right away if you get these<br />
symptoms: weakness or being more tired than<br />
usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of breath<br />
or fast breathing, stomach pain with nausea and<br />
vomiting, cold or blue hands and feet, feel dizzy or<br />
lightheaded, or a fast or abnormal heartbeat.<br />
® Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can<br />
lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right<br />
away if you get these symptoms: skin or the white<br />
part of your eyes turns yellow, dark “tea-colored”<br />
urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several<br />
days or longer, nausea, or stomach-area pain.<br />
Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page.
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I know who I am. And I make choices that fit my life.<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP is a once-daily prescription medicine that can<br />
help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 when taken every day and used<br />
together with safer sex practices.<br />
® TRUVADA for PrEP is only for adults who are at high risk of getting HIV<br />
through sex.<br />
® You must be HIV-negative before you start taking TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
Ask your doctor about your risk of getting HIV-1 infection and if<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP may be right for you.<br />
® Bone problems, including bone pain,<br />
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fractures. Your healthcare provider may do<br />
tests to check your bones.<br />
Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA<br />
for PrEP are stomach-area (abdomen) pain,<br />
headache, and decreased weight. Tell your<br />
healthcare provider if you have any side effects<br />
that bother you or do not go away.<br />
What should I tell my healthcare provider<br />
before taking TRUVADA for PrEP?<br />
® All your health problems. Be sure to tell your<br />
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IMPORTANT FACTS<br />
This is only a brief summary of important information<br />
about taking TRUVADA for PrEP TM (pre-exposure<br />
prophylaxis) to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1<br />
infection. This does not replace talking to your<br />
healthcare provider about your medicine.<br />
MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TRUVADA FOR PrEP<br />
Before starting TRUVADA for PrEP:<br />
• You must be HIV-1 negative. You must get<br />
tested to make sure that you do not already<br />
have HIV-1. Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP to<br />
reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are<br />
confi rmed to be HIV-1 negative.<br />
• Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in<br />
a person who has recently become infected.<br />
Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include fl u-like<br />
symptoms, tiredness, fever, joint or muscle aches,<br />
headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash,<br />
night sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the<br />
neck or groin. Tell your healthcare provider if you<br />
have had a fl u-like illness within the last month<br />
before starting TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
While taking TRUVADA for PrEP:<br />
• You must continue to use safer sex practices.<br />
Just taking TRUVADA for PrEP may not keep<br />
you from getting HIV-1.<br />
• You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP. <strong>Get</strong> tested for HIV-1 at least<br />
every 3 months while taking TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you<br />
think you were exposed to HIV-1 or have a fl u-like<br />
illness while taking TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
• If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need<br />
more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treat<br />
HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA,<br />
your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time.<br />
• See the “How to Further Reduce Your Risk”<br />
section for more information.<br />
w<br />
TRUVADA may cause serious side effects,<br />
including:<br />
• Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection.<br />
TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you<br />
have HBV, your HBV may suddenly get worse if<br />
you stop taking TRUVADA. Do not stop taking<br />
TRUVADA without fi rst talking to your healthcare<br />
provider, as they will need to check your health<br />
regularly for several months.<br />
ABOUT TRUVADA FOR PrEP<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP is a prescription medicine<br />
used together with safer sex practices to help<br />
reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 through sex. This<br />
use is only for HIV-negative adults who are at<br />
high risk of getting HIV-1.<br />
• To help determine your risk of getting HIV-1, talk<br />
openly with your healthcare provider about your<br />
sexual health.<br />
Do NOT take TRUVADA for PrEP if you:<br />
• Already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not<br />
know your HIV-1 status.<br />
• Take certain medicines to treat hepatitis B<br />
infection.<br />
HOW TO TAKE TRUVADA FOR PrEP<br />
• Take 1 tablet once a day, every day, not just<br />
when you think you have been exposed to HIV-1.<br />
• Do not miss any doses. Missing doses may<br />
increase your risk of getting HIV-1 infection.<br />
• Use TRUVADA for PrEP together with condoms<br />
and safer sex practices.<br />
• <strong>Get</strong> tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months. You<br />
must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA<br />
for PrEP.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF TRUVADA FOR PrEP<br />
TRUVADA can cause serious side effects,<br />
including:<br />
• Those in the “Most Important Information<br />
About TRUVADA for PrEP" section.<br />
• New or worse kidney problems, including<br />
kidney failure.<br />
• Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic<br />
acidosis), which is a serious but rare medical<br />
emergency that can lead to death. Tell your<br />
healthcare provider right away if you get these<br />
symptoms: weakness or being more tired than<br />
usual, unusual muscle pain, being short of<br />
breath or fast breathing, stomach pain with<br />
nausea and vomiting, cold or blue hands and<br />
feet, feel dizzy or lightheaded, or a fast or<br />
abnormal heartbeat.<br />
• Severe liver problems, which in rare cases can<br />
lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider<br />
right away if you get these symptoms: skin or<br />
the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark<br />
“tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of<br />
appetite for several days or longer, nausea, or<br />
stomach-area pain.<br />
• Bone problems.<br />
Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA<br />
for PrEP include stomach-area (abdomen) pain,<br />
headache, and decreased weight.<br />
These are not all the possible side effects of<br />
TRUVADA. Tell your healthcare provider right<br />
away if you have any new symptoms while taking<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
Your healthcare provider will need to do tests<br />
to monitor your health before and during<br />
treatment with TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
BEFORE TAKING TRUVADA FOR PrEP<br />
Tell your healthcare provider if you:<br />
• Have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver<br />
problems, including hepatitis.<br />
• Have any other medical conditions.<br />
• Are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.<br />
• Are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed.<br />
Do not breastfeed. If you become HIV-positive,<br />
HIV can pass to the baby in breast milk.<br />
Tell your healthcare provider about all the<br />
medicines you take:<br />
• Keep a list that includes all prescription and<br />
over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and<br />
herbal supplements, and show it to your<br />
healthcare provider and pharmacist.<br />
• Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist<br />
about medicines that should not be taken with<br />
TRUVADA for PrEP.<br />
HOW TO FURTHER REDUCE YOUR RISK<br />
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A few years ago, Google Guy<br />
messaged me on Grindr.<br />
His name is pretty selfexplanatory:<br />
He worked<br />
at Google. I worked at a<br />
restaurant just two blocks from<br />
their headquarters on 8th<br />
Avenue, so the Grindr odds<br />
were in our favor.<br />
After his clothed torso sent<br />
me a face pic, I agreed<br />
to meet him for a drink at<br />
Merchants—which, currently,<br />
is a demolished pile of bricks.<br />
(It’s a sad thing to walk by<br />
every morning on my way to<br />
work.)<br />
Google Guy was handsome<br />
and charming, a doublethreat.<br />
He talked about his<br />
job, essentially managing<br />
people—to be honest, it<br />
sounded absolutely boring,<br />
but he seemed to like it. I told<br />
him about the restaurant, and<br />
how my real calling is writing.<br />
(I’m not sure I mentioned the<br />
column—he seemed pretty<br />
private about his life. It’s one<br />
thing for your Grindr photo<br />
to be a torso, but a clothed<br />
torso?<br />
After a few too many drinks,<br />
he asked if I wanted to come<br />
back to his place for another—<br />
to which I happily agreed. He<br />
made me a Cosmo while I<br />
went to the bathroom, making<br />
sure everything was in check.<br />
When I emerged from the<br />
bathroom he had our drinks<br />
ready, and I was just in my tiny<br />
cotton underwear.<br />
BY IAN-MICHAEL BERGERON<br />
@ianmichaelinwonderland<br />
“Oh, yeah—I had the whole<br />
thing remodeled.”<br />
Handsome, charming,<br />
stable—triple threat.<br />
I’m not sure when the night<br />
went wrong. Everything<br />
seemed so perfect: We were<br />
drinking, I was in my tiniest<br />
underwear, we were getting<br />
along great. Then, somehow,<br />
we were talking about exes.<br />
“I had an ex that killed<br />
someone,” he told me. “He<br />
showed up to my place after;<br />
it was pretty surreal.”<br />
“What?”<br />
“Yeah. He went home with<br />
the guy, and he had this crazy<br />
plan to rob him, but I guess it<br />
went awry, and he bashed his<br />
head in.”<br />
“Oh.”<br />
A B E D T I M E<br />
“Yeah, insane, right?” He<br />
continued to describe the<br />
murder in gory detail—which<br />
I’ll spare you.<br />
S T O R Y<br />
Thirty minutes later, with his<br />
ex in jail and me flaccid as<br />
fuck, he finished his drink.<br />
“Anyway.”<br />
“Anyway.” I set down my<br />
Cosmo, half empty (definitely<br />
not half full), and retrieved<br />
my clothes from the floor.<br />
“It’s getting late. I should get<br />
home.”<br />
He texted me a month after,<br />
wondering why we never got<br />
together again or had sex. I<br />
told him he had a boy in his<br />
lap, begging to have sex, and<br />
he told him a bedtime story<br />
about a graphic murder.<br />
…Eh, I’d probably give him<br />
the second chance the penal<br />
system never gave his ex.<br />
“Oh,” he smiled. “I wasn’t<br />
expecting that.”<br />
We sat down next to each<br />
other on his couch—well, I was<br />
practically sitting on his lap—<br />
and we talked more. I tried not<br />
to ogle his apartment, on 19th<br />
and 9th, which was honestly<br />
mesmerizing.<br />
Three bedrooms (a bedroom,<br />
an office and a guest<br />
bedroom), high ceilings, and<br />
the most beautiful kitchen I’ve<br />
ever seen. “Your kitchen is to<br />
die for,” I couldn’t help gush.<br />
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