Today, our attitudes about HIV and other gay men range from self-righteousness to outright contempt. From whatever our vantage point, we have shamed and stigmatized everyone else into a corner, and the result is a community in revolt against itself. We are a snake eating its tail. It might be easy to doubt this gloomy [...]
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Love Won’t Protect You
Madonna contre le sida, 1988. Bon, malheureusement, contre les usagers de drogues aussi. Via un article démontrant une fois de plus que les fans de Lady Gaga sont des crétins: Lady Gaga’s Fans Claim Madonna Responsible For AIDS, Protest GLAAD Appearance, Queerty.
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Uncle Poodle est séropositif (et a envoyé son ex en prison)
Dino: Lee, when did you find out about your HIV status? Lee: I was adamant about getting my HIV status checked on a regular basis. On March 16, 2012, I tested negative. Then, in May of 2012 my test results came back positive. I knew it had been my boyfriend who infected me. I later [...]
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Peur, culpabilité et sérotriage
And yet, I’ve turned down guys who are open about their positive status. I watched the onset of AIDS in the ‘80s through the confused eyes of a child. I had it drilled into me that this was a disease to stay far, far away from. I also know better than to sleep with someone [...]
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Don du sang, homos et VIH : De l’eau au moulin
Selon nos informations, le cabinet de la ministre de la Santé, qui s’est prononcé en faveur de l’ouverture du don du sang aux homosexuels, n’était pas très chaud de voir sortir ces chiffres à la veille de la Marche des fiertés. Cette étude apporte de l’eau au moulin de ceux qui justifient l’exclusion permanente des [...]
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Erik Rhodes et sa séropositivité
Further, there is something to the argument that the discomfort I felt — and that many, many others felt — is rooted in stigma and for that reason alone should be challenged. If Colt had said Rhodes had hepatitis C, how would we have felt? Probably less uncomfortable. How about if it was cancer or [...]
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Impraticable
De toutes les peurs répertoriées, celle du sida était la plus forte. Les visages émaciés et transfigurés des mourants célèbres, d’Hervé Guibert à Freddy Mercury —dans son dernier clip tellement plus beau qu’avant avec ses dents de lapin—, manifestaient le caractère surnaturel du «fléau», premier signe d’une malédiction jetée sur la fin du millénaire, un [...]
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Donna Summer et le sida
Though known as a gay icon, Summer’s born-again-Christian status began alienating the diva from her gay fans, and in the mid-1980s, a false report that she’d called AIDS “the wrath of God†on gay people began circulating widely, an allegation she has flatly denied since. According to Jet Magazine, in 1989, she wrote to the [...]
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La rage
C’est vrai qu’il était beau ce chien. Avec sa tête noire, son pelage qui tirait vers le fauve, ses yeux fiévreux. Un loup, que Minou, le fox de Nico, regardait en penchant la tête de gauche à droite. Une grosse bête au pelage ras, qui voulait se coucher dans le panier, même si ses longues [...]
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Le rôle de la colonisation en Afrique dans l’épidémie de sida
For decades nobody knew the reasons behind the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But it is now clear that the epidemic’s birth and crucial early growth happened during Africa’s colonial era, amid massive intrusion of new people and technology into a land where ancient ways still prevailed. European powers engaged in a feverish race for [...]