HIV has loomed over the queer and trans community for decades.
It’s there in our classrooms and bedrooms, our bars and clubs. It’s in our books and magazines, our TV shows and movies. It’s there when we come out, when we try to give blood, when we fill out a dating app. It’s with us, and—for some—it has been with us for our entire lifetimes.
Since the virus’s first reported incidents among gay men in the 1970s, HIV and AIDS has never been far from queer sexuality, health, joy and community. From early days of confusion and denial, to those of mourning and loss. As years passed, our medical and scientific understanding of the virus grew. We learned enough to keep people with HIV healthy throughout their entire lifetimes, and how to suppress the viral load enough that it can’t be passed on through sex…read more.
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