So the next time you find yourself thinking, "Well, I
may be HIV positive, but I'm not one of them" - think
twice.
Safer summer city
Assuming that the sun does remember how to shine after a wet, windy June,
this is the time of outdoor British fun. Gay prides, raves, festivals,
park picnics, beach parties. Lots of young and not so young, getting it
together in hot-hot-hot abandon.
That's one of the reasons why this month we have an extensively-researched
three-part feature on dance drugs and safer clubbing (see
page 32). We can't preach about drug use. They're everywhere, part
of the fabric of both youth and gay culture.
The best we can do is tell you how to keep the pleasure sweet and the
pain mild. If you do do drugs, keep the 'wreck' out of recreational. To
quote Matt Southwell from the Dance Drugs Alliance: "Ending up in
A&E is not a good look!"
When you have HIV, a shot immune system or a liver that's processing treatment
meds, you need to think smarter still. And HIV doesn't vanish when your
inhibitions do. Blitzed people take risks. So take the right protection
with you.
Be a clever clubber, dance the summer through, and we'll see ysou again,
hot from the Barcelona World Aids Conference, in August. Party on!
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