Writer's Block: AIDS Awareness

[kevyn]

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I'm from the generation of gay men immediately after the worst of the AIDS crisis. I came out in the late 1980s, and was well aware of the dangers of HIV and the necessity of safer sex by the time I became sexually active. I know in my gut that, had I been born 5 years earlier, I wouldn't have survived unscathed.

I turned 40 this year, and have so far remained HIV-negative.

The hardest part about it for me is that there's an entire generation of gay men before me who simply weren't there for me as I came into my own. Selfish, I know, but I was raised without a father, and I NEEDED all of those surrogate daddies in my life. I missed out on so much without them there to take this scared little boy under their wing. It makes me sad to think about what could have been...

Comments

[gooeygomo.livejournal.com]

*hug*

and then came my generation, and the guys in your age just gobbled me up, as the aids fear drew to a close and men in their 30's and 40's went on a crazy sex binge... me being an edgy sexually rambunctious boy in his 20's was ripe for the pickins. :)

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you have no complaints about that! ;-)

[djmadadam.livejournal.com]

Kevyn, there are plenty of daddies left to go around. Why not start off by scanning my f-list :)

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Any of them Canadian, on the West or North Coast?
Any recommendations? :-)