U know Jonathan Perry said it best in his post on his blog this past friday www.justbthat.com why is it that some folks hate on people who are HIV positive?? Living with this virus for almost 4 yearsnow i have had my share or good and bad views from people. But as in a city where the rate of HIV is # 1 in the country it saddens me that more people are not caring or giving a damn. I am very open with my status i tell people my status and if i meet someone new thats the first thing that comes out of my mouth regardless if i was to be sexual with them because thats just me. Yes people choose to not disclose for various reason but my GOD please if you think you are positive get tested and if you are positive tell your partner regardless of the after affects because at the endof the day the person you are chilling with should like you for you and not because you have a diease. Why is HIV different from Cancer? from Sickle Cell? From any other diease? below is jonathan perry's views on the mater he currently relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta.
Living in a city where the human immunodeficiency virus is as common and easy to catch as the rhino virus; I wonder why people are still so hateful towards people who have hiv or aids.
I doesn’t matter how long I have been positive or how open I am bout my status; I don’t get used to the hurtful things people say to me. The words feel the same as they did when I shared, more than five years ago, that I had the disease.
How does it make people feel knowing they have the power to show love but choose to be hateful to people whom they have never even met and know nothing about.
Why must must we be the diseased faggots, bitches w/ aids, walking cemeteries, aids babies, so on — like the people they are talking about don’t come with feelings.
And we wonder why people who are positive never want to tell their status. Can you blame them?
Sticks and stones [may] your bone, but words cut deeper than the sticks and stones ever will.
below is jonathan perry's views on the mater he currently relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta.
46% of Black Gay Men are HIV positive