An Honest Account Of When My Best Friend Took Me To Get Tested “ I heard her breathe in and exhale and watched as she slowly shook her head. “Number of partners?” I stared at her deep side part, the gray of her roots visible. She looked up from the paper. “Number of partners?”
I Convinced Myself That I Was HIV-Positive “ With trembling hands, I went to the local community health clinic after work one day, sweating bullets. What if I was HIV positive? Could it really happen to me?
We Need To Get Rid Of The Stigma Surrounding Being HIV Positive In The Gay Community “ What do queer guys do? We stigmatize those who are positive out of fear that we too will one day have to list a POZ status on our profiles.
I Found Out My Girlfriend Of 4 Months Is HIV Positive “ I learned that the word HIV blinded me to see a human being in a matter of seconds.
Question #34 “ But then we get to question #34: “Male donors: From 1977 to the present, have you ever had sexual contact with another male, even once?” The fateful answer “yes” to question #34 ends in a lifetime ban from ever donating blood — and why? Implicitly, this ban marks “gay blood” as inherently unclean, regardless of the preventative measures taken to avoid contraction of blood borne pathogens or viral infection.
When I Was 9, I Found Out That I Was HIV Positive “ Normally, I’ll give the wrong phone number because dating is difficult — even for women who don’t have HIV.
De-Stigmatizing The Stigma: On Dating Someone Who Was HIV-Positive “ Lately, I have been wondering if I treated Luc the way that he deserved to be treated. Yes, he probably should have told me about his HIV earlier, but that didn’t give me an excuse to cast him off as dirty or “unclean.”
24 People On What It’s Like Living With HIV “ When I was first diagnosed, I was planning for my funeral. I never thought I would be planning my granddaughter’s wedding.
