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WORD AIDS DAY, 2011

Ron was my very first boyfriend. He was already HIV+ (I was, and am, still HIV-) when we were dating. He was a journalist and gave me a lot of aspiration on who and what I wanted to do as an adult. He passed away about two years after we had stopped dating.

Laith became HIV+ about eight months after we broke up, and though we never reconnected wholly as friends, I was grateful that we at least got to work along side each other some years later, and were able to put some closure on that relationship. He passed away about a year after we reconnected.

Both of these men gave me a lot of formative ideas and hopes in my earlier days. I still carry much of those ideas within me as a result of knowing them back then. And, like so many people who knew them, I wish they were still here.

For Ron. For Laith. I fell in love with you then, and I still love you now. You both will always be a part of my heart. Always.

AIDS Memorial Quilt of the Names Project Foundation displayed on the National Mall, DC. in 1987

Guys update: I found love, I got married last year.

Trans women of color with HIV may lose an important lifeline under Trump’s 2018 budget

Trans women of color living with HIV face a new challenge under Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.

Trump’s proposed budget keeps allotted funding for much of the United States-focused Ryan White Care program, which provides treatment and support services for HIV-positive Americans. 

However, it also seeks to eliminate $25 million in funding for a line item called “Special Projects of National Significance.” Part of that line item includes a $3.2 million initiative meant to keep HIV-positive transgender women of color in care.

The grant is divided among nine recipients across the United States, including the Community Healthcare Network, based in New York. 

According to Freddy Molano, the vice president of infectious diseases and LGBTQ programs, about 300 HIV-positive transgender women of color access care through CHC’s transgender care program. Read more (5/24/17)

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Holding the Man (2015)

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I was with my partner for 7 years and he never told me he was hiv,i found some papers, that's how i found out it was so disturbing,

The fact that there are people knowingly spreading HIV to their partners makes me want to physically throw up. And you know there are people doing it to keep their spouses from leaving cah the stigma would be too much for them to even seek out another relationship. It’s wicked uno. The thing is, sometimes showing you’re clean before marriage ain’t even enough, some people contract these things thru cheating (after) and end up giving it to their partners.

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The fact that there are people knowingly spreading HIV to their partners makes me want to physically throw up. And you know there are people doing it to keep their spouses from leaving cah the stigma would be too much for them to even seek out another relationship. It’s wicked uno. The thing is, sometimes showing you’re clean before marriage ain’t even enough, some people contract these things thru cheating (after) and end up giving it to their partners.