Tag: hiv stigma

  • CBS News New York Tweets HIV-Phobic Headline

    CBS News New York Tweets HIV-Phobic Headline

    on this 8th day of the new decade that is 2020, cbs news New York tweeted a headline, in all caps i might add, that read in: “RELEASED AFTER HIV ATTACK: A judge has let a suspect back onto the streets after police at LaGuardia say the attacker spit into…

  • HIV Isn’t A Crime…

    HIV Isn’t A Crime…

    The weaponization of HIV infection: in this case, the use of bodily fluid/s for use as a weapon and the assumption of infectiousness, has a long and storied history in the United States and globally. This refers to enacting HIV-specific statutes that criminalize people infected with HIV and often doesn’t…

  • Ricky | Philadelphia, PA

    Ricky | Philadelphia, PA

    i went through so much. i went through hell and back. and i went so much in the latino gay community. the black gay community showed me so much love when i came out, didn’t talk about me. verses what i went though in the latin gay community. as i…