My pal Tim Murphy's piece for POZ magazine on people living with HIV -- Older and Wiser: People Who Have Lived With HIV/AIDS for 25 Years or More Are Battle-Scarred and Full of Survival Savvy -- is a must-read. Click HERE.
This cover story I just did for POZ, on people who have lived with HIV/AIDS for 25 years or longer, meant a lot to me. It's been heartening to see, in the past year or so, that there appears to be a kind of reckoning with the intense suffering and heroic fight these folks went through, one that so many of us have wanted to forget since the advent of effective medications. I hope we continue with this process of looking back and talking about what survivors went through and what they need now.
2 comments:
Great artice. Hard to imagine the emotions and struggles those folks face/have faced. I lost more friends than I can ever remember now, having lived in NYC and DC during the worst of it. Often feel there is a survivors complex of sorts. Also amazing to me the almost "party" atmosphere around bareback sex now, which many of us have lived in fear of most of our lives. I just try to see all sides of the issues ... I guess age gives one the ability to do that.
I am alive today because the one I loved discoved a new lover. My broken heart heals me by being alive.
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