On my desk are three mementos of the AIDS pandemic. They remind me of what we lived through in the frightening early years of a plague that seemed hell-bent on killing gay men — and the high price we have paid for our resilience, as individuals and as a community.
Our resilience is once again being tested in the COVID-19 pandemic as we draw upon the lessons that our lives, and AIDS, forced us to learn under the duress of the earlier (and still ongoing) pandemic.