
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.
I survived. Most of the people I worked with, many of the people I loved? They didn’t. Never forget, and for fuck’s sake don’t you dare minimize it.