How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones - with guest Stacey Harkey
Breaking Down Patriarchy
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Is That AIDS? Is It a Logical Sequence?
Said's mom would cut out magazine clippings and put them on the kitchen counter for him to find. When you have gaps in information, you are left to make assumptions. Gay men dying of AIDS like it was a logical sequence of events,. Or a life cycle. Caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly, gay boy, gay man, AIDS. It was certain. Mom's friend got AIDS because he was gay. Because he was gay, he killed himself. Said: "I felt like I had made the mistake of asking a fortune teller to look into my future"
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