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2026-07-23 23:38 UTC
like i wouldn't say it's a neat generational split, because there are a lot of factors at play here. AIDS never fully went away just because it became treatable, now it's only "over" in places where treatment is available. and of course your childhood conception of sex and queerness is gonna be influenced largely by how the adults around you talk about, which is not necessarily gonna line up with the actual science.
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@aisling@critters.gay 2026-07-23 23:46
my position in this whole thing was that i was born in the united states of america in the early 90s; my awareness of queerness was curtailed by the death tolls of the late 20th century, and then, at the dawn of the 21st, expanded by the internet