BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The stories of Black queer people with HIV cannot be told in statistics
HIV has never been just a statistic for me. It has never been a distant concern or a nameless condition existing in the abstract like it is for so many. It has never been something that merely existed as a plotline in a movie. It has never been an unseen boogeyman used as a scare tactic. It has always been real, personal, tangible, and deeply rooted in my life as a Black, sexually fluid man living in the Bible Belt. My earliest encounter with HIV would shape my entire life. At a young age during the early 2000s, I watched […]