AIDS activist Rae Lewis-Thornton was 23 when she tested positive for HIV in the ’80s.
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I was 23 years old when I was diagnosed with HIV in 1986. It was a cruel and ugly time to be told that you were HIV-positive. Three months earlier, I’d given blood for the Red Cross, and now, in a five-minute meeting, they were delivering the bad news. The Red Cross employee didn’t know what to tell me. There were no medicines to treat HIV. They were kicking kids out of school with HIV. That same year, a prominent magazine told women that they couldn’t get HIV through heterosexual contact if they had a “healthy vagina.” It was a time of chaos and misunderstanding. I didn’t know where this disease would take me or how my life would change.
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