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Ten Questions for Brad Crelia, Co-Founder of Hivster.com

Dan Savage
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Hipsters and AIDS do belong together.
sirkowski on May 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM Report this
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Wow, comments like that just go to show how fucked up and intolerable the world still is...
dancedancedance on May 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM Report this
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@2. wow. it's, like, almost impossible to offend me. congratulations!
Adrian Ryan on May 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM Report this
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@2, i am disappoint. :/
More, I Say! on May 16, 2011 at 1:56 PM Report this
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I don't understand the need for hivster.com. I'm a healthy 34-year-old and I've had HIV for six years. I don't understand how the medical condition relates to "music, culture, art and things that are interesting to younger people". When I seek HIV info, I search the web and end up getting answers from medical and news sites. When I seek info about music, culture, art, or things that are interesting to me, I expect that to come from completely separate sources.

I can understand the need for sharing personal stories (Hivster does that) but I just don't see the point in combining it with music, culture, art, etc.

I just don't get it.
DowntownTaylor on May 16, 2011 at 2:01 PM Report this
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@6: I'm glad to hear you're doing well.

I think maybe not everyone has it together to the same degree as you do; so there is value something like hivster, to remind people of all the possibilities that they may have forgotten about or have subconsciously ruled out after their positive diagnosis.

It's like role models: not everyone needs role models, but for some it makes all the difference to have the right role model at the right time.
on May 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM Report this
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@6 I'm going to start a zine for rednecks who love opera and have hemorrhoids. I'm going to call it "Something to Justify My Empty Life."
Zepol on May 16, 2011 at 3:35 PM Report this
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Everyone Knows It But We're Going to Have to Keep Saying It Until Something Changes.

If polygamy were legal and regulated we wouldn't have to waste money—money we don't have—and police time raiding polygamy compounds in Texas and Arizona.

Don't you think, Danny?

And which is the more pressing moral issue;
denial of marriage equality
or
denial of the right to get legally stoned?

But go ahead, keep focusing your attention on dogs and pot.

Fuck your selective self-serving hypocritical moral outrage.

Fuck it and shove it up your ass...
on May 16, 2011 at 6:06 PM Report this
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That mustache looks like a sexual disease.
A Concerned Parent on May 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM Report this
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More death culture...I hate gay "community"...it's rotten.
on May 16, 2011 at 8:20 PM Report this
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How can anyone who was born after 1980 be "pretty clueless" about HIV?!!!!
sue b on May 16, 2011 at 9:59 PM Report this
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@ 12 Growing up in a rural area? Not everyone lived in a city and not every school, especially really conservative ones like the one I attended, even bothered with telling us about STDs in more detail than 'yeah, have sex before you get married and you'll ruin your life by catching nasty STDs and dying.'
Aya on May 17, 2011 at 1:03 AM Report this
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Unfortunately, he's dead now. So HIV is still the lethal virus that it's always been - regardless of how "positive" one wishes to portray infection and seroconversion.
on November 23, 2014 at 12:23 PM Report this
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How did this young man come to have HIV? Not having safe sex? Why did he die from it? Not taking meds? This are the hard questions to ask instead of having a pity party. Young people should know that you do not have to get HIV and if so, you do not have to die from it.
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