Love and Death in the 1980's [and 1990's].

[bubosquared]

Twenty years of AIDS. I don't remember a world without it. It's had a very profound influence on my view on sex. My generation was the first AIDS generation.

And the worst is yet to come.

Comments

*hug*

[coneyislandbaby]

I can remember a world without AIDs. It's dim and distant, but I can remember it. I can remember people thinking it will never happen to me and not using condoms. Then being surprised when they were diagnosed. I can remember people thinking kids like Ryan White and Eve Van Grafhorst were something to be avoided. I can remember a young prison guard being stabbed with a needle, being diagnosed and eventually dying.

Like you, AIDs has had a big impact in my life. I know it's had an effect on how I view sex. I just wish it had had the same effect on other people. Maybe they would still be with us today.

Re: *hug*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, people think it's over. They think it's under control. It isn't. New AIDS contaminations ahve gone up in Belgium last year, because people are getting careless. I know people my age, people who shound fucking know better, who don't use condoms, becuase, oh, AIDS is under control and it wouldn't ever happen to them.

[Who are Ryan White and Eve Van Grafhorst?]

Re: *hug*

[coneyislandbaby]

I know, and it's horrible, because it will realistically never be under control.

Ryan White was a young boy diagnosed with AIDs. There was a movie about him with the kid who played Doogie Howser.

Eve was an Australian baby girl infected through blood, possibly one of the first.

I remember reading And The Band Played On a couple of years ago and being so angry and upset at the way the whole disease was handled in the early stages, too.