Letters to the Editor
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@Ricardo Malocchio
Thanks. That's good to hear. I wanted to know, because the way the disease has exploded into the black community people sometimes forget how it started and that most of America, white and black, was quite relieved to hear that as long as the blood supply was considered 'safe', well, it was just those gay guys dying. Very short-sighted, as I said.
My family was a little different. With a gay sibling who lost many friends to the disease, and who has seen it re-bound in the gay male community among younger men who somehow think they are immune, and a mother who worked for the American Red Cross in the lab and who, over the years, had to tell a lot of very surprised women of all races they were HIV positive after their husbands had been unfaithful, I know what it does, to all citizens.