After essentially five years of flat funding for HIV/AIDS medications, we are in desperate need of increased funding for HIV/AIDS drugs. I applaud the president's proposal to eliminate the waiting lists for medications, but it must not come at the cost of other key services provided in the CARE Act.

The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.

With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy’s downfall.

Prior to this generation, (HIV/AIDS) wasn't an issue.

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 can’t enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we’re going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death.

I didn't want this man touching me in those places. It wasn't that he was being inappropriate, it was just more that he obviously didn't view me as a person, let alone a scared person with actual feelings. He just saw me as yet another scientific specimen there for his own experimenting. I squeezed my eyes shut, cringing the entire time.