In the Shadow of the Epidemic (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Walt Odets
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Alienation, Death or dying, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Life and death, Diseases
Toward the end of In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS, Walt Odets quotes a twenty-three-year-old man who is HIV-positive: “I’m glad to think that in ten years I’ll be dead. By then, the only gay people left will be the stingy ones and the lonely ones whose lives are ruined by watching the rest of us die.” In this quotation, Odets encapsulates much of the problem that HIV-negative individuals face in gay communities such as San Francisco, where more than half the gay population is HIV-positive and is unlikely to survive for a...
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