...the sudden realization there are entire ass adults who don't remember the way things were re HIV/AIDS in the 80s and even into the 90s.
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I am so glad things have changed and continue to change but mighty fuck, I feel old.
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It took a long, hard fought education campaign to teach people that you can hug someone with HIV. That you won't get it from a toilet seat or a sneeze.
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It was such a terribly stigmatized disease. One reason gay men placed such importance on legalizing same sex marriage is how many of them were barred from their partners' hospital rooms in their last days by hostile family or hospital bureaucracy.
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Gen X was the first generation to come of age in a time when sex could kill you. It shaped sex ed classes when we got them. It shaped talks about drugs.
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And of course race and class as well as sexuality shaped your experience with HIV. Black communities got hit way harder and longer than white ones, for instance.
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And now HIV has gone from a swift and ugly death sentence to a chronic illness, provided you can afford the meds. That right there is huge breakthrough medically.
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Even bigger, it looks like it's possible we will actually see an HIV vaccine in my lifetime. I thought we'd never see it. It was, after all, a disease of gay men and drug addicts. Nobody cared. http://ddn-news.com/index.php?newsarticle=12455 …
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This vaccine news is so huge and it's giving me so many feelings. So many.
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I remember even as a little kid in the 90s how much there was stigma and misinformation being spread around in schools and media. The vaccine is like, holy shit.
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