In a piece for The Stranger, Nate Lippens reveals, with numerous hard-hitting, terrifying and poignant comments, how the with the demise of the AIDS awareness of the 80’s, the spread of HIV is being truly allowed by older generations’ reluctance to get involved, to get in the way and to get hurt.
With the pain of losing friends to the virus still clear, it’s easier to step back and be silently disapproving, but this doesn’t help those on the receiving end of the dangerous diseases, the unsafe practices and the ‘you’re positive’ diagnosis. Now is the time to stand up once more and be loud, be offensive but be heard.
Maybe it was like the mob: You try to get out but they pull you back in. I realized that telling people that unsafe sex is careless and stupid isn’t being moralistic; it’s being realistic.”
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