“ If you want to talk about it with someone, then I`m happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to. Jane Green
“ The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienationhave compelled most victims to conceal their status while themalevolent ones continue to distribute the virus free of charge tounsuspe… Oche Otorkpa
“ Look, look, we tell each other. It's Tom!He's Mr. Bellamy to his history students. But he's Tom to us. Tom! It's so good to see him. So wonderful to see him. Tom is one of us. Tom went through it all… David Levithan
“ In late 1985, the Reagan White House blocked the use of CDC money for education, leaving the US behind other Western nations in telling its citizens how to avoid contracting the virus. Many Americans… Alysia Abbott
“ That’s the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I’m in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I… Jessica Verdi
“ Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intr… Chris Crutcher
“ Perhaps this is why not one of 800 sexologists attending a conference raised a hand when asked if they would trust a thin rubber sheath to protect them during intercourse with a known HIV-infected per… James C. Dobson
“ But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week together, because Wally is not on morphine yet, because he has just en… Mark Doty
“ I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t know why I was going, today, to stand in the long cool darkness of St. John of the Divine, but m… Mark Doty
“ AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Of course, it’s now obvious why he was so angry that day. People don’t move into hospice to live but to die. And that half an egg sandwich I ended up making him–that sandwich was the last meal he ate… Alysia Abbott
“ The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. Alysia Abbott
“ Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
