AIDS remains a problem. But is it still a priority for the gay community?
In the 1980s, AIDS ravaged gay communities across the country. Gay and bisexual men of all races, classes and walks of life were falling ill, dying or attending their friends’ funerals every week.
It seemed that society was essentially allowing people to die from “the fact that not enough rich, white, heterosexual men have gotten AIDS,” as the late HIV-positive gay activist Vito Russo put it in 1988.
The LGBT community united to demand action and address the reality that although HIV did not discriminate, the power structures that could help save lives sure did.
Today, however, HIV does appear to discriminate.… Seguir leyendo »