Quote of the Week

[+ Lucky]

This quote interested me, so I pass it on to see if it interests you:

 

Quote of the Week

 

“If you want to know where you stand in gay history, ask yourself where you were in 1982, when the disease took hold in public consciousness. If you were already sexually active by then and you’re still here to read this, you are someone who surely knows that fury has its uses. If you were in your teens, wondering how to take even your first steps into life as a gay man in a world in which a single encounter could become a death sentence, you understand fear, and its warping effects down through the decades. And if you were a kid, you grew up seeing AIDS as an unhappy fact of life. But what about the ever-growing cohort of gay men who weren’t even born in 1982? For most of them, AIDS is not their past but the past.” -

 

Mark Harris, “The Gay Generation Gap,” New York Magazine

[KMEM]

Interesting quote. It certainly could be a statement of personalized and personal fear and effects (and is), but I had already lived through the fear of the bomb and had come to grips with the fear of EVERYONE being annihilated. I had also already lived through the missle crisis with Cuba/Russia and that was the most scared I have ever been.

 

AIDS seemed more an educational process as opposed to a philosophical one (like nuclear holocaust) which an individual could deal with and process; not so with world disintegration.

 

Thanks for the quote; it is thought provoking.

 

Best regards,

KMEM