Writer/activist Tim Murphy has reservations about this HIV Equal promo shoot -- "Can we pls have an #HIV campaign that teaches us re: prevention, testing and treatment? What is this glammy nonsense?" -- but I'm actually sort of relieved by it. Apparently I'm not hot enough to be infected with HIV ...
ALL CAPS commentary mine:
HIV Equal is an all-inclusive anti-stigma and HIV testing initiative sponsored by Norwalk, CT-based World Health Clinicians that recently photographed many familiar faces in Los Angeles. The campaign and health initiative are acutely aware that HIV affects everyone [WHO IS WHITE, MALE AND RIDICULOUSLY ATTRACTIVE], and its aim is to photograph people from all walks of [BEAUTIFUL] life, in cities across the country, to illustrate that fact.
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I much prefer the approach of performance artist Diamanda Galas, who lost her brother to AIDS years ago. On the knuckes of one hand are tattooed the words "We Are All HIV +"...none of this wash-off-after-glamour-shot garbage.
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