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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.

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

A bus poster designed by Gran Fury for Art Against Aids in 1989. Gran Fury was an art collective which used the power of art to battle the Aids crisis

Photograph: Gran Fury, Courtesy of the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division

Gay marriage is already legal in all US states . congratulations. / Matrimonio gay ya es legal en todos los estados de Estados Unidos. felicidades.

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I have been HIV positive for 8 years if you want to ask me anything go ahead. If you have questions about treatment, go ahead and ask me, if you need a friend I’m here for you.

David Wojnarowicz at ACT UP’s FDA Action protest, 11 October 1988

Photography by Bill Dobbs

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