the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG
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After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Just the thought of that many queer elders...
*also there's some cross reactive immunity between the MMR, tetanus shot, and COVID.
If you see this in this thread and don't know what prep is or what U=I means, please Google them. Educate.
Her eyes got wide like saucers as she made haste for the door.
She wore a surgical, I wore a respirator.
I found it amusing that this portmanteau traumatized her. 😷❤️🩹🕯️
I cannot imagine. The grace of late birth.
Nothing I can write really can follow that, cause the implications are true, and it was bad.
So many of the books on my shelves are by authors gone prematurely.
https://www.joemygod.com/2018/08/famed-no-obits-headline-turns-20-years-old/
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/19/tucker-carlson-network-tcn-jenner-furst-anthony-fauci-documentary/
She's now in her 30s, married, and has three kids. She's healthy, and none of her kids have the virus.
It's astounding how much progress has been made.
Now I have a relative who’s lived w/HIV for over 30 years due to medication & you don’t even hear about AIDs that much.
(And of course it sucks that similar funding isn’t available for other at-risk kids)
She's now 40, with 2 kids she birthed.
Neither the kids or her husband got HIV.
Viral load is undetectable.
It's amazing wonderful!
(And the kids are my godchildren)
I often think of the celebrities in various countries who did more work than the authorities to humanise the people affected by AIDS, just by visibly spending time with them and reminding everyone they were people indeed, worthy of love and respect
People do still die from it in the USA, for various reasons.
https://www.nathanieljhall.co.uk/first-time
but im also worried these advancements could go away soon, b/c
-Condom use is very low among teens & Gen Z
-STIs are still rising tremendously (there’s a syphilis epidemic in the U.S. & a shortage of meds)
-the GOP can now target LGBTQ ppl directly by removing access to HIV/AIDS meds
I don’t want to diminish that, but I’m also increasingly aware of how public health & we LGBTQ ppl are under attack. Just, I don’t want to lose this.
safer sex in the 80s, okay? Because we found ways then and we'll find them now.
Rest in peace, 💐 my dearest friends
Larry Z
David P
Dean M
Donald B
You were all loved 🤍
What’s the difference between a regular thermometer and a rectal thermometer 🌡️?
The taste.
🔥 😳
Love you, David 💛💜
Thank you for your fantastic friendship.
https://bsky.app/profile/doctorz.bsky.social/post/3ledojvdfis2m
a former bandmate contracted it back in the 00s, and we were freaking out.
nearly 20 years later, we talk and it doesn't even come up.
I delivered meals on wheels and would find people in grotesque states with used diapers & molded solo cups because roommates wouldn’t get near them. I’d ask for trash bags and clean their room up. It was infuriating.
And yes—they withered.
It was weird — there was some “testing” happening. My friend George would give you a big smooch & sleep in the same bed. You had to remind yourself, this will not give me AIDS. Some couldn’t.
Still, it was a scary time. I was the generation where it started and we were initially baffled, then scared until some of us understood bits. 😕
Click or tap below article thread ⬇️ 6 min
I'm sorry this person is grieving the closure, but the article isn't wrong.
I was a teen at the time and remember weeping with rage watching the news about her and people's prejudice. So much suffering that was made worse.
That pretty much puts you in the “hero” category, dude.
In the 90s I was super swamped in grad school and so I missed the news about the new treatments and preventions. Then I later learned everything has changed.
He got it while cheating on his new wife, IIRC. So much better!
His advocacy work was still great, but that moment burned after losing a brother to AIDS who *was* gay.
✨️DR. ANTHONY FAUCI✨️
This is following a very clear pattern.
He saves lives.
We must do all we can to dupport the scientists who devote their lives to helping us live long, healthy lives.
They are all literally in danger for their lives.
Only certain deaths are beneficial to them, but that means a lot of innocent people die or get injured.
There must always be an enemy to attack and exterminate, and due to the fact that fascists are dogshit at threat assessment, they will eventually pick a fight they cannot win, leading to their movement's destruction.
sorry 😅
https://bsky.app/profile/doctorz.bsky.social/post/3ledojvdfis2m
Turns out this isn't such a feel good story after all
That doesn't mean we don't keenly feel the absence of those for whom those changes came too late. It just means it's good that things are different now.
💉
We've had so little good news...
How many of my friends died, and how horribly they died.
I couldn't do it; opening that box of grief that has been sealed shut for my own sanity caused me to start crying so hard it freaked them out.
You really missed out on the fabulous people we lost.
It takes a special type of person to look death in the face w such strength and grace.
Pride was a danse macabre, full of joy and laughter, a big fuck you to what fate had dealt them.
They'd be so happy to see how far we have come
It was exactly the same as early covid pandemic
Once one got infected, everybody already knew he soon wouldn’t be alive anymore 😢
This did kill people the same way covid 'skepticism' killed people.
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c