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For World AIDS Day, we remember those we lost and recommit to fighting for those who are still living. Remember not only the cis/straight/white/male/rich/western/etc who have died due to complications of HIV/aids, but also those not on the quilt, those who were not remembered. Mourn the sex workers, the trans women, those who died on the streets, those who died deep in addiction, those who died alone. Mourn the activists, the friends, the brothers. Mourn the forgotten, the ones who had no one to care for them, those who live in places where medicine isn’t accessible, where HIV has such a social stigma that they can’t even try to get medicine.

Fight for the living! Be mad at the government, at Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, be mad at society as a whole. The US government ignored the AIDS crisis, but the US government isn’t the only government to be mad at. Be mad that we lost a whole generation of LGBT people because of our governments, be mad for their families, their friends. Be mad that so many people are still dying, globally.

Today is a day to be mad, to mourn, to curse the government, to curse Ronald Reagan. Keep this history alive. Remember the dead, but fight like hell for the living.