New chief executive of AIDS organization intends to battle stigma

[William769]

For more than two decades, Marjorie Hill has been touched by AIDS.


In 1983, as the acronym AIDS was only just beginning to enter the public conversation, Hill watched a friend die.



The next decade, as director of former Mayor David N. Dinkins’ Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community, Hill attended so many funerals - at least one a week at one point - that she stopped going to them “for my own mental health.”



Now, Hill, at 50, is settling into a new job as chief executive of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, which calls itself the country’s oldest AIDS service organization, as it prepares to mark its 25th anniversary next month.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. I don't know why having AIDS is a stigma

Its considered so by ignorant bastards who do nothing but hate. That is a stigma. Being a "conservative" is a stigma. Hating in the name of Jesus Christ is a stigma.

I wish Ms Hill well in her new job.

[William769]

2. As someone living with AIDS, I don't understand it either.

But I can tell you it is rampant. :shrug: