In what ways does AIDS effect the radical shift in gay representation

[justlovinlife]

in the 1980-early 90s? how does aids influence the emergence of queer theory? any ideas on either.

[TristenSquirter]

This nightmare epidemic forced people to stop having natural skin to skin sex the way it was ment to be. I just tragicly lost my husband who had HIV and because he had the disease, we were never able to experrience skin to skin sex the way any married couple should. Additionally we both believed that the healthiest exsistance for any man was to have as much sex as possible with as many partners as possible. We therefore kept our marriage open and we sexed both together and apart, but the end of each and every day found us in each others as we fell asleep. It was a wonderful marriage, the very best , but we both regretted not having natural sex and we both regretted not having natural sex with our additional partners as it would have been so much more benefical to us both as men. When the epidemic first started the medical community said we would have to wear condoms for a couple of years if we were to beat this thing. It seemed a push to all those around at the time but they agreed of course considering the loss all had suffered. That was a quarter of a century ago which is a totally unreasonable period of time to go without one of the most important things in life. Many have broken down unable to continue in this limited way and those that havn't are in danger of following suit. HIV/Aids is a crisis but so is this unatural limitation on sex & love and it is every bit as urgent. We emplore you, the medical community, to also make this a priority.