It's sad, i know, but it took this show I'm working on to really get me to think about AIDS again. i could conviently toss a blind eye to the crisis while sleeping soundly at Dyke U cause everyone knows lesbian's don't get IT right? AIDS is a fag disease. even now, with all the "information" that's out there proving that straight men like dykes like straight women like gay men like everyone in between and extreme, are at risk, the same old stigma is still there. how many times do people ask, after finding out an associate has the virus, "oh, was he gay?" And how many more times do straight couples take a break for protection? how many times do dyke couples use it? or, the morning after, even if all was safe, how many more times do gay men turn over and feel their lymph nodes? Socially in America, IT's very much a fag disease still, physically, IT does not discriminate.

And Mr. Reagan, if there's ever a chance of you reading this: fuck you. You knew of the disease, and what it could do, and you pegged it the gay cancer, you assured america it was not a problem for most of it's citizens. you denied information, gave misinformation, and overall used your bias to force the demise of millions upon millions of americans. if AIDS was socially a straight white diesease instead of a queer african disease, there would have been a cure 15 years ago. but we all know there's no money to be made through fags and blacks.

this used to be never never land, now it's a mine field.

-h

21 July, 2002 - 13:11

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