Robert's walk with AIDS (Epilogue): What I'd like to say to those With HIV/AIDS
This is the epilogue to the series of blog posts by Gary Nelson chronicling life with his partner, Robert, who died of AIDS March 21, 2002. At some point Robert decided to stop taking his medicine. He...
View ArticleTime to light the fire again: (part one) Where’s the passion?
Gary Nelson: “Come forward. Without people living with HIV participating in all levels of HIV/AIDS awareness, education, research and support programs, there is no passion and therefore no motivation...
View ArticleTime to light the fire again: (part two) The origin of stigma and how to...
Gary Nelson continues his exploration of HIV stigma and says serious diseases have always been stigmatized. But in the case of HIV we can reduce that by stepping up to the plate and disclosing....
View ArticleTime to light the fire again: (part three) The problem is our attitudes about...
Gary Nelson says too many of us still judge and condemn those with HIV and says we need to reevaluate how we think about sex – and each other. It’s ironic. There are LGBT people who would describe...
View ArticleThis is what happens when you don’t take your HIV meds
Gary Nelson knows what it can mean to be non-compliant. But he says people need our support. “There are a lot of men and women who need to know that they have a lot more life in them.” This has always...
View ArticleWhy I think HIV+ guys make great boyfriends
Gary Nelson confesses: “ Ever since those early days of the AIDS crisis, I have been attracted to guys who are HIV+.” As the year comes to an end, I think about all the things I meant to write about,...
View ArticleBeing sick and homeless
Gary Nelson asks “What is our level of commitment? What can we do to prevent homelessness among those with HIV?” I still remember the question asked by the Hospice Social Worker so long ago. “What is...
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The HIV Equal Campaign: having a place at the table
Gary Nelson says “seeing ourselves as equal, regardless of our HIV status, is the core belief of the HIV Equal Campaign.” After a heated exchange between a father and his son in the 1967 classic...
View ArticleThe viral divide
Strengthening the bonds. Gary Nelson has tough words for those who are divisive - those who think the HIV–negative can’t understand being HIV-positive and those who laud being HIV-negative as superior...
View ArticleThe fear of being HIV Positive
Gary Nelson on being HIV-negative, on how fear and anger are always n the background as well as the bonds it creates It never leaves me. It’s always there. Every time I get a deep cough, the kind that...
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