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Leonardo
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Reged: 08/07/07
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Loc: New Jersey
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Re: Something to mull over...
02/20/08 09:28 PM
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Esmerelda,
I totally get what your saying. When I read your last post, it made me recall my experience as a gay man. In my teens and early twenties, I lived openly as a gay man in my personal life, but chose to identify myself as heterosexual man in my professional world. As I became more comfortable with my identity, I began to feel less comfortable with my professional facade and just refused to confirm or deny being gay. By the time I reached my mid-thirties, I realized that my fear of being visiible as a gay man was intentionally engineered by a society that imposes a heteronormative matrix on its youth. I came out professionally to challenge that norm and to encourage others to choose visibility.
In a very similar way, I have no doubt that the general public's perceptions about HIV would become vastly more rational if people understood that HIV+ people are no more a threat to them than the diabetic in the next cubicle.
I admire those of you who are visible examples of the "normalcy" of being an HIV+ person. I hope to join you someday, but with less than one year of experience with HIV, I'm not ready to be visible.
Thanks,
Leo
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