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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI am alive today because the one I loved discoved a new lover. My broken heart heals me by being alive.
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