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General Family | Mothers | Other Loved Ones and Friends

Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd with their daughter

Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd live in Los Angeles with their daughter Connor.

Martha and Sarah, photographed by Loel Poor and featured in the Loel Poor Photo Exhibit.

For Becky Trotter and Io Cyrus, maintaining open lines of communication in their relationship has been a constant, day-to-day concern.

General Family

Profiles in Courage: Raven Lopez (February 2006)
Born HIV-positive, Raven Lopez, now 15, has always lived with the virus that she sees as little more than a footnote in her life.
From The Body
"I Don't Want Others to Die Like My Wife" (July 13, 2004)
Dr. Leonard Okello heads the Ugandan branch of ActionAid, an AIDS advocacy group, and is an AIDS widower who has raised his three daughters alone since his wife's death.
From BBC News
When McGann Loves a Woman (March 2004)
British actor Mark McGann talks about his recent public disclosure that his wife is HIV positive.
In Positive Nation
"The Happiest Day of Our Life" -- A Gay Couple Living With HIV Adopts (September/October 2003)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Paula Peterson and Griff Butler (2003)
In this excerpt from Roslyn Banish's book, an HIV-positive woman and her husband, who is negative, talk about their relationship, family life and raising their young son.
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In Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans With HIV and AIDS, from University of Massachusetts Press
Soul Brothers (December 2002)
Kerry O. Burns' one-man play is about the life and death of his brother Timothy, who died of AIDS.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Family Album (June 1999)
How ideas about "family" are redefined and celebrated by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Losing Your Husband to AIDS (December 1997)
Elizabeth Avedon shares her experience.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Mixed-HIV Status Couples: Navigating the Challenges of Everyday Life (October 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Living With HIV: Mom [and Me] (August 1996)
A writer finds comfort in the last person he'd expect to understand.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
A Married Couple Learns to Deal With HIV (Winter 1995)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
Inspiring Stories of Living With AIDS
A collection of stories from family members, activists and people with HIV.
From Computerized AIDS Ministries
Why I Wear a Red Ribbon
"BJ made me his wife, but AIDS made me his widow".
From Computerized AIDS Ministries

Mothers

Profiles in Courage: Marcya Owens (February 2006)
African-American HIV advocate Marcya Owens discusses her life and successes as an HIV-positive, married mother of two.
From The Body
Profiles in Courage: Michelle Lopez (February 2006)
Trinidad emigrant Michelle Lopez discusses how she fought against depression to become an outspoken advocate for herself and her daughter.
From The Body
The Grief Suite (July/August 2003)
When her son, Robert, told her he had HIV, she became one of his greatest sources of support -- and he became one of hers.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
A Proud Mother Speaks About Her HIV-Positive Daughter (Spring 2001)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
Five Days in Steve's Life and Death (December 1998)
A mother remembers her son.
One Mother's Story (December 1997)
A mother becomes her son's "private army".
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
A Mother's Thank You (Summer 1994)
Finding closure for her infant son's death from AIDS.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive

Other Loved Ones and Friends

My Friend Michael: Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2001 (June 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
It's Her Party! (Fall/Winter 1997)
Letter to a young woman with AIDS.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive

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