Category: AIDS Related Essays

It has been over a year now since I had the AIDS virus antibody test and learned that I was positive and therefore infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Though I had anticipated that this would be the case,

Many gay persons and lesbians mark the beginning of modern gay liberation with the Stonewall riots, which occurred in New York City in June of 1969. The several days of rioting were sparked by a routine police raid of a

In the last several years unprotected anal intercourse has been implicated as a very significant mode for transmission of the virus (HTLV-III) responsible for AIDS. For those of us for whom our asses (and its orifice) are significant sexual organs

Recent issues of Out Front have contained numerous letters dealing with the possibility that AIDS may be a diabolical plot to eliminate the influence of gay people and our liberation movement. In a parallel vein, much concern has been raised

I believe it is important for the well being of gay men to be tested for antibody against Human T-cel1 Lymphotrophic Virus III (HTLV-III). Infection with the HTLV-lll is the necessary component in developing AIDS. It is very possible that

It appears, but not with total certainty, that the virus called Human T-cell Lymphotrophic Virus-3 (HTLV-3) is the essential ingredient in developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). There has been considerable press coverage of AIDS and HTLV-III in Denver during

The “ostrich syndrome” is a phrase I heard -used recently by a person with AIDS to describe his reaction to educational materials and information in general on the AIDS epidemic prior to his becoming ill The man related that he

“It takes a certain amount of living with a phenomenon (i.e. AIDS), especially a relatively new one, before it can be understood properly…” (Dr. Herman W. Dickerson, AIDS Institute, New York Department of Health) It would be great to be

There is a tired old cliche that says “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” After a year and a half of very concentrated thought and work on the issues surrounding AIDS I find myself meditating more

Last summer (1981) a very disturbing and unexpected outbreak of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s Sarcoma (a cancer) began to be documented amoung young gay men. According to a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (Dec. 10,