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So I want to start this talk[br]by showing y'all a photo,

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and it's a photo many of you[br]have probably seen before.

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So I want you all to take a moment

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and look at this photo,

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and really reflect on some[br]of the things that come to mind,

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and what are some[br]of those things, those words.

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Now, I'm going to ask you all[br]to look at me.

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What words come to mind[br]when you look at me?

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What separates that man up there

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from me?

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The man in that photo is named David Kirby

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and it was taken in 1990[br]as he was dying from AIDS-related illness,

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and it was subsequently[br]published in "Life Magazine."

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The only real thing[br]separating me from Kirby

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is about 30 years of medical advancements[br]in the way that we treat HIV and AIDS.

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So what I want to ask next is this:

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If we have made such exponential progress

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in combatting HIV,

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why haven't our perceptions[br]of those with the virus evolved alongside?

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Why does HIV elicit this reaction from us[br]when it's so easily managed?

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When did the stigmatization even occur,

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and why hasn't it subsided?

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And these are not[br]easy questions to answer.

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They're the congealing[br]of so many different factors and ideas.

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Powerful images, like this one of Kirby,

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these were the faces of the AIDS crisis[br]in the '80s and '90s,

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and at the time the crisis[br]had a very obvious impact

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on an already stigmatized group of people,

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and that was gay men.

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So what the general straight public saw[br]was this very awful thing

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happening to a group of people who[br]were already on the fringes of society.

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The media at the time began[br]to use the two almost interchangeably --

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gay and AIDS --

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and at the 1984[br]Republican National Convention,

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one of the speakers joked[br]that gay stood for: "Got AIDS yet?"

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And that was the mindset at the time.

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But as we started[br]to understand the virus more

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and how it was transmitted,

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we realized that that risk[br]had increased its territory.

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The highly profiled case[br]of Ryan White in 1985,

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who was a 13-year-old hemophiliac

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who had contracted HIV[br]from a contaminated blood treatment,

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and this marked the most profound shift[br]in America's perception of HIV.

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No longer was it restricted[br]to these dark corners of society,

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to queers and drug users,

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but now it was affecting people

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that society deemed[br]worthy of their empathy,

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to children.

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But that permeating fear[br]and that perception, it still lingers.

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And I want a show of hands[br]for these next few questions.

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How many of you in here[br]were aware that with treatment,

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those with HIV not only[br]fend off AIDS completely,

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but they live full and normal lives?

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Y'all are educated.

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(Laughter)

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How many of you are aware[br]that with treatment,

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those with HIV can reach[br]an undetectable status,

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and that makes them[br]virtually uninfectious?

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Much less.

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How many of you were aware[br]of the pre- and postexposure treatments

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that are available[br]that reduce the risk of transmission

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by over 90 percent?

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See, these are incredible advancements[br]that we have made in fighting HIV,

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yet they have not managed[br]to dent the perception

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that most Americans have[br]of the virus and those living with it.

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And I don't want you to think[br]I'm downplaying the danger of this virus,

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and I am not ignorant of[br]the harrowing past of the AIDS epidemic.

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I am trying to convey[br]that there is hope for those infected

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and HIV is not the death sentence[br]it was in the '80s.

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And now you may ask, and I asked[br]this question myself initially:

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Where are the stories?

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Where are these people living with HIV?[br]Why haven't they been vocal?

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How can I believe these successes,[br]or these statistics,

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without seeing the successes?

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And this is actually[br]a very easy question for me to answer.

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Fear, stigma and shame:

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these keep those living with HIV[br]in the closet, so to speak.

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Our sexual histories are as personal[br]to us as our medical histories,

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and when you overlap the two,

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you can find yourself[br]in a very sensitive space.

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The fear of how others[br]perceive us when we're honest

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keeps us from doing many things in life,

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and this is the case[br]for the HIV-positive population.

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To face social scrutiny and ridicule[br]is the price that we pay for transparency,

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and why become a martyr

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when you can effectively pass[br]as someone without HIV?

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After all, there are no[br]physical indications you have the virus.

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There's no sign that you wear.

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There is safety in assimilation,

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and there is safety in invisibility.

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I'm here to throw back that veil[br]and share my story.

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So in the fall of 2014,[br]I was a sophomore in college

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and like most college students,[br]I was sexually active,

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and I generally took precautions[br]to minimize the risk that sex carries.

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Now, I say generally,[br]because I wasn't always safe.

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It only takes a single misstep[br]before we're flat on the ground,

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and my misstep is pretty obvious.

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I had unprotected sex,[br]and I didn't think much of it.

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Fast-forward about three weeks,

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and it felt like I'd been trampled[br]by a herd of wildebeest.

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The aches in my body were[br]like nothing I have felt before or since.

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I would get these bouts[br]of fever and chill.

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I would reel with nausea,[br]and it was difficult to walk.

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Being a biology student,[br]I had some prior exposure to disease,

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and being a fairly informed gay man,[br]I had read a bit on HIV,

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so to me, it clicked[br]that this was seroconversion,

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or as it's sometimes called,[br]acute HIV infection.

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And this is the body's reaction

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in producing antibodies[br]to the HIV antigen.

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It's important to note that not everybody[br]goes through this phase of sickness,

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but I was one of the lucky ones who did.

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And I was lucky as in,[br]there were these physical symptoms

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that let me know, hey, something is wrong,

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and it let me detect[br]the virus pretty early.

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So just to clarify,[br]just to hit the nail on head,

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I got tested on campus.

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And they said they would call me[br]the next morning with the results,

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and they called me,

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but they asked me to come in[br]and speak to the doctor on staff.

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And the reaction I received from her[br]wasn't what I was expecting.

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She reassured me what I already knew,[br]that this wasn't a death sentence,

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and she even offered[br]to put me in contact with her brother,

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who had been living with HIV[br]since the early '90s.

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I declined her offer,[br]but I was deeply touched.

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I was expecting to be reprimanded.

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I was expecting pity and disappointment,

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and I was shown compassion[br]and human warmth,

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and I'm forever grateful[br]for that first exchange.

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So obviously for a few weeks,[br]I was a physical mess.

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Emotionally, mentally, I was doing OK.

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I was taking it well.

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But my body was ravaged,

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and those close to me,[br]they weren't oblivious.

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So I sat my roommates down,

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and I let them know[br]I'd been diagnosed with HIV,

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that I was about to receive treatment,[br]and I didn't want them to worry.

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And I remember the look on their faces.

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They were holding each other[br]on the couch and they were crying,

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and I consoled them.

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I consoled them about my own bad news,

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but it was heartwarming[br]to see that they cared.

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But from that night, I noticed a shift

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in the way that I was treated at home.

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My roommates wouldn't[br]touch anything of mine,

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and they wouldn't eat[br]anything I had cooked.

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Now, in South Louisiana,

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we all know that you don't refuse food.

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(Laughter)

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And I'm a damn good cook,[br]so don't think that passed me by.

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(Laughter)

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But from these first silent hints,[br]their aversion got gradually more obvious

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and more offensive.

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I was asked to move my toothbrush[br]from the bathroom,

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I was asked to not share towels,

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and I was even asked[br]to wash my clothes on a hotter setting.

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This wasn't head lice, y'all.

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This wasn't scabies. This was HIV.

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It can be transmitted through blood,

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sexual fluids like semen or vaginal fluids

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and breast milk.

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Since I wasn't sleeping with my roommates,

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I wasn't breastfeeding them --

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(Laughter)

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and we weren't reenacting "Twilight,"

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I was of no risk to them

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and I made this aware to them,

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but still, this discomfort, it continued,

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until eventually I was asked to move out.

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And I was asked to move out

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because one of my roommates[br]had shared my status with her parents.

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She shared my personal[br]medical information to strangers.

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And now I'm doing that[br]in a roomful of 300 of y'all,

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but at the time, this was not[br]something I was comfortable with,

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and they expressed their discomfort[br]with their daughter living with me.

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So being gay, raised[br]in a religious household

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and living in the South,

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discrimination wasn't new to me.

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But this form was,

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and it was tremendously disappointing

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because it came[br]from such an unlikely source.

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Not only were these[br]college-educated people,

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not only were they other members[br]of the LGBT community,

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but they were also my friends.

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So I did. I moved out[br]at the end of the semester.

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But it wasn't to appease them.

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It was out of respect for myself.

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I wasn't going to subject myself to people

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who were unwilling[br]to remedy their ignorance,

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and I wasn't going to let something[br]that was now a part of me

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ever be used as a tool against me.

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So I opted for transparency[br]about my status,

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always being visible.

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And this is what I like to call[br]being the everyday advocate.

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The point of this transparency,[br]the point of this everyday advocacy,

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was to dispel ignorance,

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and ignorance is a very scary word.

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We don't want to be seen as ignorant,

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and we definitely[br]don't want to be called it.

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But ignorance is not[br]synonymous with stupid.

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It's not the inability to learn.

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It's the state you're in before you learn.

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So when I saw someone[br]coming from a place of ignorance,

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I saw an opportunity for them to learn.

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And hopefully, if I could[br]spread some education,

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then I could mitigate[br]situations for others

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like I had experienced with my roommates

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and save someone else[br]down the line that humiliation.

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So the reactions I received[br]haven't been all positive.

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Here in the South,

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we have a lot stigma[br]due to religious pressures,

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our lack of a comprehensive sex education

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and our general conservative outlook[br]on anything sexual.

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We view this as a gay disease.

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Globally, most new HIV infections[br]occur between heterosexual partners,

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and here in the States,[br]women, especially women of color,

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are at an increased risk.

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This is not a gay disease.[br]It never has been.

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It's a disease we should[br]all be concerned with.

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So initially, I felt limited.

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I wanted to expand my scope[br]and reach beyond what was around me.

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So naturally,

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I turned to the dark underworld[br]of online dating apps,

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to apps like Grindr,

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and for those of you who are unfamiliar,

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these are dating apps[br]targeted towards gay men.

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You can upload a profile and a picture

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and it will show you[br]available guys within a radius.

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Y'all have probably heard of Tinder.

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Grindr has been around for a lot longer,

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since it was much harder[br]to meet your future gay husband

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at church or the grocery store,

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or whatever straight people did

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before they found out[br]they could date on their phones.

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(Laughter)

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So on Grindr, if you liked[br]what you saw or read,

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you could send someone a message,[br]you can meet up, you can do other things.

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So on my profile,[br]I obviously stated that I had HIV,

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I was undetectable, and I welcomed[br]questions about my status.

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And I received a lot of questions

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and a lot of comments,[br]both positive and negative.

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And I want to start with the negative,

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just to frame some of this ignorance[br]that I've mentioned before.

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And most of these negative comments[br]were passing remarks or assumptions.

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They would assume things[br]about my sex life or my sex habits.

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They would assume[br]I put myself or others at risk.

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But very often I would just be met[br]with these passing ignorant remarks.

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In the gay community,[br]it's common to hear the word "clean"

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when you're referring to someone[br]who is HIV negative.

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Of course the flip side to that[br]is being unclean, or dirty,

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when you do have HIV.

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Now, I'm not sensitive

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and I'm only truly dirty[br]after a day in the field,

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but this is damaging language.

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This is a community-driven stigma

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that keeps many gay men[br]from disclosing their status,

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and it keeps those newly diagnosed

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from seeking support[br]within their own community,

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and I find that truly distressing.

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But thankfully, the positive responses[br]have been a lot more numerous,

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and they came from guys who were curious.

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And they were curious[br]about the risks of transmission,

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or what exactly "undetectable" meant,

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or where they could get tested,

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or some guys would ask me[br]about my experiences,

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and I could share my story with them.

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But most importantly,

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I would get approached by guys[br]who were newly diagnosed with HIV

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and they were scared, and they were alone,

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and they didn't know[br]what step to take next.

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They didn't want to tell their family,

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they didn't want to tell their friends

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and they felt damaged,[br]and they felt dirty.

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And I did whatever I could[br]to immediately calm them,

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and then I would put them in contact[br]with AcadianaCares,

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which is a wonderful resource[br]we have in our community

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for those with HIV.

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And I'd put them in contact[br]with people I knew personally

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so that they could not only[br]have this safe space to feel human again,

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but so they could also have[br]the resources they needed

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in affording their treatment.

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And this was by far[br]the most humbling aspect

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of my transparency,

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that I could have some positive impact[br]on those who were suffering like I did,

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that I could help those[br]who were in the dark,

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because I had been there,[br]and it wasn't a good place to be.

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These guys came from[br]all different backgrounds,

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and many of them[br]weren't as informed as I had been,

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and they were coming to me[br]from a place of fear.

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Some of these people I knew personally,

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or they knew of me,

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but many more, they were anonymous.

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They were these blank profiles[br]who were too afraid to show their faces

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after what they had told me.

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And on the topic of transparency,

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I want to leave y'all with a few thoughts.

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I found that with whatever risk[br]or gamble I took

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in putting my face out there,

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it was well worth any negative comment,

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any flak I received,

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because I felt I was able to make[br]this real and this tangible impact.

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And it showed me that our efforts resound,

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that we can alter the lives[br]that we encounter for the good,

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and they in turn can take that momentum[br]and push it even further.

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And if any of you or anyone you know[br]is dealing with HIV,

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or if you want to see what resources[br]you have in your community,

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or just educate yourself[br]more on the disease,

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here are some wonderful national sites[br]that you can access

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and you are more than welcome[br]to find me after this talk

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and ask me anything you'd like.

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We've all heard the phrase[br]"to see the forest through the trees,"

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so I implore all of you here to really[br]see the human through the disease.

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It's a very easy thing[br]to see numbers and statistics

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and only see the perceived dangers.

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It's a much harder thing to see[br]all the faces behind those numbers.

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So when you find yourself[br]thinking those things, those words,

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what you might have thought[br]looking at David Kirby,

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I ask you instead,

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think son,

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or think brother,

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think friend

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and most importantly, think human.

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Seek education when faced with ignorance,

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and always be mindful,

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and always be compassionate.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)