Nearly half of new infections are in the black community. The churches can say this is a gay disease but the numbers tell a different story. We have straight black women being infected by bisexual men.

It's everyone's disease. Why is there such a stigma attached? It's no different than living with diabetes or cancer.

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

The strongest connection [between the immigration bill and gay rights] is that the immigrant community, as new Americans, are people we will work with in the future, and it's important to them now to see a demonstration of support from the gay community.

At the time [I was diagnosed], it was a white man's gay disease,

Too many people still think that this is just a gay, white disease. They think if they are not an IV drug user, and the man they are kicking it with is not a drug user, then they are not at risk.