AIDS risk in America at the beginning of the century appears to be different depending on your skin pigmentation and where you live.
If you're black, the NAACP wants you to know that AIDS is your disease.
If you live in New York, the city's health commisioner, Thomas Frieden, wants you to be sure that everyone is at risk and AIDS will still kill everyone in
America.
If you live in Los Angeles, the LA Gay & Lesbian Center is pointing out to gay men that HIV is still a gay disease and we need to be back on the front lines.
Wait a second! HIV is now a disease all by itself? I thought it was one of those retro-viruses. What happened to AIDS? Nevermind. We are, and we must never forget, the primary market for the cycle of drugs, testing and desperation, and we are needed. We can own it afterall !
By now the workings of the AIDS machine cannot seem insane only to dissidents.
Jose Germosen is a NY writer and graphic designer. He is a former editor at the Village Voice, whose work has appeared in Vibe and Fader. (Hank)
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