POSE

But we are living in a world where all of us could truly be gone one day. Where our kind is just a memory, one the rest of the world would be happy to forget. All we have left is right now. I don’t know how soon ‘til I’m in a box on the end table of some crying man’s bed, but until then that love and that promise are who I claim to be.

All we have left is right now. I don’t know how soon, til I’m in a box on the end table of some crying man’s bed, but until then… that love and that promise are who I claim to be.

- I know that Ronald Reagan will not say the word “AIDS.” Health insurance will not cover any treatments. The world wants us dead. They don’t think this is a plague. They think it’s some sort of divine justice or Darwin’s answer for sodomy. I used to get tested every month, but now I just… I’m just extra careful when I do what I do, and I am… living my life. - You’re whistling past the graveyard. - Maybe! But you knowing and me not knowing– it’s not gonna change the fact that at some point, this shit is gonna run us all down. - You are one pessimistic motherfucker, I’ll tell ya. - I’m a realist. And I’m scared. - I know you are. But what is scared to us? It’s like water to a fish. There’s no point in dreaming of a life without having to be scared. But you’re also strong and brave. Brave enough to get up on that stage and take on all of us crazy bitches night after night. We are all gonna get tested, and we are all gonna get through this, together.