That sentence, “I tested positive” inaugurated sorrowfully more than 30 years ago was a death sentence. Literally a death sentence.
A sentence that when spoken, most often silently, ripped apart lives, relationships, families and communities — namely populations of gay men around the world.
It was in every sense harrowing, depleting and destructive. Being HIV-positive was to have a virus with no cure, no elixir, no hope.