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On My Tattoo, Part One (Because I have Two).

I am going to take a break from the AIDS and HIV prevention in today’s blog, because I am much more than just an HIV + man.  I often found myself frustrated with the gay community’s amazing ability to weaken itself with subdivision, as if being white, gay, and HIV+ were not enough to separate me from the whole of humanity, I am also expected to be identify as a “long-term survivor,” “over-forty,” “hairy,” “bearish,” and now expected much more than I am comfortable with, a “Daddy.”  And make no mistake I recognize all to well the safety and comforts that are found in the subdividing “sameness”.  They are powerful tools in making a community and creating empowerment for in individual.  But there is an inherent dichotomy in that as well.      

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