In remembrance of those we've lost to AIDS, Kate Bush's Moments of Pleasure: https://youtu.be/0qIiezpue2k #WorldsAIDSDay #AIDS #remembrance #KateBush #MomentsOfPleasure

For #worldsaidsday, I'd like to let everyone know that I will be riding, again for AIDS/LifeCycle, an organization that raises awareness, prevention, and provide services for those living with AIDS. Anyone can participate in someway. It was a life- changing experience for me. If you'd like to help with my fundraising efforts please donate here: https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=33980
Thank you!

Today is #worldsaidsday . For some LGBTQ folks in the US HIV/AIDS might feel like recalling a bad nightmare, or maybe even an urban legend.

This week I was involved in the care of a young man, first diagnosed with COVID. His condition started to get really weird. Now intubated and not expected to live, this young man of color who had sex with other men is dying of AIDS…in 2022.

In reality, he’s dying because of homophobia, stigma, racism, and lack of access to PrEP.

#silenceequalsdeath

#worldsaidsday has always brought back profoundly sad memories for me. Losing so many friends in the 80's and 90's. People just disappearing off the scene, or "gone home". Watching adverts in the cinema of a tombstone with AIDS written on it.

HIV is no longer the death sentence that it was, but the stigma still remains.

PrEP is now widely available
Science has proven U=U

But education and understanding are still our best way to finally end the pandemic.