Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sullivan's new book is a series of three connected essays. The title refers to both recent changes in the prognosis of HIV patients, who can now reduce their viral load to undetectable levels, as well as to the conspicuous absence of love in the dialogue of gay and lesbian issues...
Regarding the first essay, "When Plagues End," Sullivan discussed his hypothesis that AIDS undermined heterosexual fears of gays and lesbians by promoting an image of gays and lesbians weakened by disease...
...AIDS, Sullivan said, "evoked empathy and concern and hostility for homosexuals but more empathy and concern than hostility...
...Sullivan noted that HIV is increasingly seen as something that may turn out to be a treatable, if not curable, disease and said he believes an end to the AIDS plague may be politically and socially problematic...
...greatest fear is that as the plague recedes we will see the end of that cushion between [the gay community and] hostility," Sullivan told an audience member who asked for his thoughts on the death of Matthew Shepard, the college student killed last week in Wyoming because...