The plot was that a bunch of gay men with AIDS were going to kidnap a congressman and give -him- AIDS by injecting infected blood, the point of this stunt was to - surprise - make a point about AIDS.
I skimmed ahead a bit and the terrible shocker in the middle of the book is that the lead character's unrelated boyfriend - SURPRISE - ALSO GETS AIDS.
It's like all of these people are stuck in the 80's. AIDS is still bad, but education and modern medicine have made it better, and if you're smart about it these days you are probably not going to die of AIDS. I have never, in fact, met another person with AIDS, and I run with a pretty sexually fluid crowd.
Besides AIDS is like the glamorous, martyr STD when it's depicted in LGBT fiction - you never see a hero who has something like pubic lice or herpes. Those are gross, but not dramatic and literary!
It's very frustrating to me. I want to support these authors, but I am so sick of reading about that one topic.
I apologize for any oatmeal nose incidents I cause. :)
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Date: 30 Jun 2010 13:49 (UTC)I skimmed ahead a bit and the terrible shocker in the middle of the book is that the lead character's unrelated boyfriend - SURPRISE - ALSO GETS AIDS.
It's like all of these people are stuck in the 80's. AIDS is still bad, but education and modern medicine have made it better, and if you're smart about it these days you are probably not going to die of AIDS. I have never, in fact, met another person with AIDS, and I run with a pretty sexually fluid crowd.
Besides AIDS is like the glamorous, martyr STD when it's depicted in LGBT fiction - you never see a hero who has something like pubic lice or herpes. Those are gross, but not dramatic and literary!
It's very frustrating to me. I want to support these authors, but I am so sick of reading about that one topic.
I apologize for any oatmeal nose incidents I cause. :)