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Today, December 1st is World AIDS Day
This day is fading in significance from what it was when so many of our friends were dying of this disease in the '80s and '90s.
We had the Names Project Quilt and the damn thing grew to cover the National Mall in DC. I fotografed many of the panels that were displayed in Miami in 1988 and made this collage.
Unfortunately, so many young men are taking risks because they no longer see this constant death that there is a whole new problem. MOST ppl can now live with AIDS since the advances in medicine in 1996 but some still die and it is not a walk in the park for those in treatment.
My Friend Mark died in 2001
and my friend Jose in 2006
Before the mid '90s almost everyone who contracted HIV eventually died of AIDS. It was a trying time for many gay men to see so many of their friends die. I lost a few, mainly because I dared to work for AIDS organizations when a lot of ppl were still prejudiced and doing stupid shit like not even touching ppl who were infected.
I believe my friend Terry in Miami Beach died in 1992 when I left for Gainesville.
My friend Julio, an artist on Miami Beach died in 1993 at 32 years of age. I got to see him on a trip to South Florida a few months before he died.
And my friend Randy, an AIDS activist in Gainesville died after I returned to South Florida in 1996 - the very year that protease inhibitors became a successful treatment.
So, to all those young men who have not watched so many friends die, Safer Sex does work. Since 1990 I have made love to 6 men that I knew had AIDS (4 of them in this memorial). I am still HIV negative. Be Careful, use rubbers or do 'outercourse' low risk sex and you can be safely intimate with infected ppl. Get tested frequently especially if you fuck up - it happens.
How To Use a Condom
http://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-use-a-condom-1
This day is fading in significance from what it was when so many of our friends were dying of this disease in the '80s and '90s.
We had the Names Project Quilt and the damn thing grew to cover the National Mall in DC. I fotografed many of the panels that were displayed in Miami in 1988 and made this collage.
Unfortunately, so many young men are taking risks because they no longer see this constant death that there is a whole new problem. MOST ppl can now live with AIDS since the advances in medicine in 1996 but some still die and it is not a walk in the park for those in treatment.
My Friend Mark died in 2001
and my friend Jose in 2006
Before the mid '90s almost everyone who contracted HIV eventually died of AIDS. It was a trying time for many gay men to see so many of their friends die. I lost a few, mainly because I dared to work for AIDS organizations when a lot of ppl were still prejudiced and doing stupid shit like not even touching ppl who were infected.
I believe my friend Terry in Miami Beach died in 1992 when I left for Gainesville.
My friend Julio, an artist on Miami Beach died in 1993 at 32 years of age. I got to see him on a trip to South Florida a few months before he died.
And my friend Randy, an AIDS activist in Gainesville died after I returned to South Florida in 1996 - the very year that protease inhibitors became a successful treatment.
So, to all those young men who have not watched so many friends die, Safer Sex does work. Since 1990 I have made love to 6 men that I knew had AIDS (4 of them in this memorial). I am still HIV negative. Be Careful, use rubbers or do 'outercourse' low risk sex and you can be safely intimate with infected ppl. Get tested frequently especially if you fuck up - it happens.
How To Use a Condom
http://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-use-a-condom-1
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