andreashettle:

hooligan-nova:

optimysticals:

tethmos:

september-before-a-rainfall:

Jesus.

Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

The AIDS crisis is a reminder that no matter how cool we are in a moment (like during the height of disco), the instance shit goes south for us cishet people will let us die.

Respectability politics is Russian roulette. 

[Image description: Screenshot of a Tweet by Hanif @hanifleylabi that says “The men in white are the surviving members of the original San Francisco Gay Men’s choir. The rest represent those lost to AIDS.”  In the picture with the tweet, about 120-plus men stand in six rows. Most of the men are in dark suits, facing away from the camera toward the wall. Only seven men face the camera, dressed in bright white shirts. End image description.]