Aids and the new homophobia

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Aids and the new homophobia

“All of my friends are dead.” It was said in his customary matter-of-fact tone, without the slightest hint of self-pity. This was Robin, my supervisor at university, who would often discuss his pre-academic life and what it was like to be a gay man during the worst of the Aids crisis. That he had survived at all struck him as incredible. In those early days, the sense of an angel of death targeting a particular community seemed like the realisat…