AIDS day

[devoken]

When I was fifteen years old I caught the movie Longtime Companion on TV. It was one of the first movies that involved AIDS (in fact, I'm pretty certain that it was the second, preceded by An Early Frost, which was heavily censored) and, while slow at times, is really well done, especially for its time. This dialogue from the end scene stuck with

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[alanajoli]

I read a graphic novel not too long ago about the season of MTV's Real World that had one of the cast members as HIV positive. It made me cry, because it was a beautiful celebration of not only this guy's life, but the way he touched the lives of the people around him who hadn't ever known what being HIV positive meant to the people who were.

If I could remember the title off the top of my head, I'd recommend it heartily. :)