{"id":3882,"date":"2018-12-01T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:20:49","slug":"world-aids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a day that I&#8217;m usually pretty quiet about, because it&#8217;s a puzzle to me how to respectfully respond to it. You see, I&#8217;m a queer guy (<em>not<\/em> a gay guy) in his mid-fifties. Personally, and for reasons I won&#8217;t get to in greater detail here, that difference between <em>queer<\/em> and <em>gay<\/em> is a huge part of the reason why I managed to both avoid that HIV bullet myself, and avoid the experience of having most of my close friends die, despite being the &#8220;right&#8221; age to have experienced both.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I can&#8217;t really relate any sort of the personal horror stories that most gay men of my age can, nor do I really feel in any way like a survivor (or have any consequent survivor&#8217;s guilt). So I&#8217;ll just have to say that while I haven&#8217;t <em>personally<\/em> experienced much of the impacts many of my friends my age have, I understand that many of them <em>have<\/em>, and that it must have been terrible.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that I have had the pleasure of meeting many unassuming people who were fierce warriors during the era when AIDS was a crisis in the First World. That latter part is important; in many parts of the Third World, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS is still a <em>huge<\/em> crisis today. It is due to AIDS that many African nations have a lower life expectancy today than they did 30 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a day that I&#8217;m usually pretty quiet about, because it&#8217;s a puzzle to me how to respectfully respond to it. You see, I&#8217;m a queer guy (not a gay guy) in his mid-fifties. Personally, and for reasons I won&#8217;t get to in greater detail here, that difference between queer and gay is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}