Longtime Conundrum

[hardybear]

I went to see the film "We Were Here" at the Castro yesterday. It was very powerful. It reminded me that many of the issues of the AIDS crisis have never really been resolved for me. They have just receded into the background

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[hardybear]

I think you will find it very interesting. The Director did a Q&A afterwards and said that he hoped the film would be a way for younger gay men to find out more about what that period was like. So he had an audience of multiple generations in mind when he made it, apparently. I would be interested to know how you feel about that after you see it.

seeing is believing

[hardybear]

yes, disrespectful, and a bit crazy. It was such an intense thing, in those days, trying to encourage people to stay HIV negative. And the idea that you had to risk seroconversion in order to have a normal, or relaxed, or healthy sex life was very much deprecated. But now, people juggle the odds differently.

Having seen so many men die so horribly, I don't think I could ever take such a casual attitude towards infection with the virus. But then I have to remember that younger people have not seen the wasted bodies, the KS lesions, the canes and wheelchairs and IV's, the way I did.

[bitterlawngnome]

I don't know if I could manage to sit through it.

[hardybear]

It is draining, but it is hopeful at the same time. He is talking with survivors, after all. I found it cathartic.

And yet, I know a part of me, also, would rather let sleeping dogs lie.