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It is a beautiful fiction, but it is a fiction nonetheless. Viruses and bacteria do not recognize vows, they do not read marriage certificates, and they do not respect the boundaries of a shared home.
Hello lovely people, earlier this week I was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at AIDS 2026 for less than a week but honestly it felt much longer. From the pre-conference to my final moments, I showed up as HIV Stigmafighter and Eric the Dragking. Rio embraced both sides of my activism.