Eric Rofes
Author, Educator

"You have these young guys, who hate the word gay and see gay as mainstream and white and safe and all these other things, and I have to laugh sometimes about it, because it’s exactly what generations do to each other, it’s a lot about defining your own politics and your own aesthetics — take the thing that’s most important to people in their 40s, and undermine it…"

Cleve Jones
Activist/Founder, The Names Project

"Barebacking is obviously not new, we’ve had a continuing infection rate within our community that could only have happened if people were having unsafe sex…"

Chris Bohnert
Writer/Immigration Advocate

"I can’t condemn the behavior, I really can’t. I just think it it’s what we do when we’re young. We have sex, and it’s heartbreaking, that that’s the price..."

Richard Garrey
Graphic Artist

"The difficult thing is when you come home, and you have to deal with the shame of it all — Which I still have some of, that I’m not a good person because I’ve been infected…"

 

Tony Valenzuela
Activist/Performer

"You know we couldn’t talk about sex, from the time I can remember, the way we really have sex, in all it’s political incorrectedness ….Why I don’t know, I really never understood that about the gay community."

Wayne Hoffman
Writer/Activist

"The same men I marched with in the late 80s, and shouted that same message with, now shouting back at me, saying no, we were the innocent victims, because we didn’t know. But you know. And if you seroconvert, and you get HIV, or you have unsafe sex, it’s your own fault…"

Michael Scarce
Author

"Inevitably there’s this good queer, bad queer routine that gets played out in public and I think it’s going to get really ugly. And I do think that people are going to take cheap shots at each other, whether it’s older gay men who want to chastise younger gay men and paint them as being sexually irresponsible, or younger gay men who just want to dismiss older gay men as being, sort of, damaged…"

Adrian Dominguez
Hospital Administrator

"My life has changed dramatically and it has changed dramatically in a positive way. I think that there’s this greater appreciation for life, a greater appreciation for my friends and my family…’