Rex Wockner explains why the video of Tom Duane, that we posted yesterday, matters.
Guys my age, we all say that we lost half of our friends. I did too. Some of us got infected before we knew any better, and somehow managed to hold on until 1996, and survived, and are here today. Some of us did the same things in 1981 and 1982 (before we knew any better) that the people who died did, and that the people who got infected and survived did -- and because of nothing other than random dumb luck, we did not get infected. I'm one of those people.
I think guys my age who got lucky in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when HIV was there but we didn't know it was there, have a particularly special obligation to make sure that younger generations of gay men know what happened between 1980 and 1996. That's why I want you to watch a 22-minute video. It goes by very, very fast.
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