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I was sent to a blog that's DEFINITELY NOT safe for work, but which held a few posts that got me remembering.
I feel old.
I was lucky. I was born 5-10 years too late to be really affected by "the gay plague". I still saw a couple of people die from it, but I wasn't that affected. By the time I got onto the scene, we'd been scared into safe sex.
But older friends were very affected. And imagine it...
You spend so much time agonizing about whether you are dying or not. You don't dare go test yourself, because the survivability rate of the "gay plague" is 15% over 5 years.
Here you can read one man's account of it. It's not safe for work.
http://www.billinexile.com/?cat=125
And now? Now people call that disease "manageable".
I feel old.
I was lucky. I was born 5-10 years too late to be really affected by "the gay plague". I still saw a couple of people die from it, but I wasn't that affected. By the time I got onto the scene, we'd been scared into safe sex.
But older friends were very affected. And imagine it...
.And the memorials — dear God the memorials.
In 1987 I must have gone to two a month for a while. Seriously, can you imagine being 27 years old and having two people you know die every month? It got so bad that I eventually gave up going — as did most of my friends. It was just too fucking much because every memorial you went to you were reminded that fairly soon it was going to be you getting memorialized, probably by many of the same people at that very memorial service.
You spend so much time agonizing about whether you are dying or not. You don't dare go test yourself, because the survivability rate of the "gay plague" is 15% over 5 years.
Here you can read one man's account of it. It's not safe for work.
http://www.billinexile.com/?cat=125
And now? Now people call that disease "manageable".
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