#hivaids

todays olcmaxxing post is a little different as today (8th December) is the date that original london cast member, Tom Jobe, lost his battle to aids exactly 35 years ago. Tom was the first actor to play Bobo and I also believe both the first white and openly homosexual actor to play Electra! he was also very well known for being one of the first advocates for the aids epidemic and would help in pride marches and protests whilst he was alive.

with world aids awareness day being on the 1st and tom losing his life to such horrific disease, I would like to ask you all if you could also take the time to try and donate or even copy and paste the link to the National Aids Trust to help save the lives of men and women who are currently in the position that tom, and many other of the starlight express actors, were in.

They'll probably scream "well then you shouldn't have sex" completely ignoring the fact that

A) you can get HIV from more things than sex

B) people are infected with HIV due to rape

C) babies can be born with HIV if the pregnant person is also infected

D) just because you don't like sex and someone had sex doesn't mean they aren't worthy of help and Healthcare

But I guess those babies are such whores. They deserve to suffer for the rest of their lives.

Oh and also, funding for all Healthcare abroad has been cut/limited so treatment for people with HIV to prevent the manifestation of AIDS is also gone.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting too much." - Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

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