"I think that everyone should know I'm HIV positive because I think that someone needs to be out there saying, 'Look, I'm HIV positive. I have a full-time job. I volunteer as an EMT. I have a healthy, normal sex life with an HIV-negative partner who is younger than me and very hot.' I mean, I'm fine with being the poster child." Click here to read Jimmy Mack's story.
"When I was first diagnosed, I felt so scared, just petrified. Immediately I was thinking 'Oh my God, they're going to take my kids! They're going to deport me!' I didn't know where I was going to go to get help." Click here to read Michelle Lopez's story.
"I look at the pills and think, 'Yeah, these pills -- this fistful of pills -- are what's keeping me alive [laughter].' It's hard to describe. It was hard watching my mom die of the disease that I had, that I knew I had. I knew I could end up like her. It's hard having that realization at such a young age." Click here to read Alora Gale's story.
Being 30 was a big milestone, 40 was a huge one, and now 50 ... I never even thought, three or four years ago, I was going to be 50," says Nelson Vergel. "It was a big miracle for me, which I was able to enjoy with my friends." Click here to read Nelson Vergel's story.
"It's been very tough having Paula sick and having a baby. It's hard to rest when you have a baby. ... Stuff really frazzles me now. ... It's a combination of the sickness, taking care of Benjamin, and then having to deal with Paula's parents. It makes it rough. Dealing with these things sort of diverts me from what I should be concerned about, which is Paula's health." Click here to read Paula Peterson and Griff Butler's story.
"When I was diagnosed [over 20 years ago], my wife was with me when the doctor told me, and at that time it was most assuredly a death sentence ... I was very young ... and having been told that you have a fatal illness, you don't ever forget that." Click here to read Alexandra Billings' story.
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