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AIDS Paranoia
posted by AsharahSTAFFMOD on February 12, 2017 at 2:06 PM
The AIDS paranoia segment reminds me of a letter in an advice column year ago. Writer was a gay man living with his partner. His sister was so paranoid about AIDS, which neither he nor his partner had, that she wouldn't lets her kids go over to the gay couple's house to swim in the pool.
Had a case locally where a mailman was fired for refusing to deliver mail to a straight couple who were HIV positive.
I had hoped we were past such foolishness.
Reply by Stand*Chickie
on June 30, 2017 at 9:53 PM
I think I remember that about the sister not letting her kids go to her brother's house and in the swimming pool.
If I may ask this, how did the mailman know the couple was HIV? I remember years ago Oprah did this segment with a gay man in West Virginia, he and his sister went into the public pool and all hell broke loose. Strangely I don't remember them saying exactly how the whole town knew he had AIDS that they all jumped out of the pool when he jumped in. Oprah did ask that and he said he thought someone in his family talked and then they told someone else and someone else told, etc... but he didn't really know that's how people knew.
Reply by Asharah
on July 1, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Can't recall how, but apparently the whole neighborhood knew when they moved in. The article started with this summary. The lady up the street brought over a basket of vegetables from her garden. The next door neighbor put up a 10 foot fence. The people across the street invited them to come swim in their pool whenever they wanted. And the mailman refused to deliver their mail.