llesbianfarmer:

angellfallendown:

anyways fuck america for not educating students about the aids crisis whatsoever

my drama teacher mentioned to us “most of my friends from college are dead” and I knew right away what he meant. he explained “I was a drama major in the 1980s” and still no one else in the class understood. he explained a little bit about the aids crisis, but these kids had no idea before. it is truly heartbreaking to hear about it, and especially to see it being erased.

I think about this a lot; how no one talks about AIDS anymore. And it’s not like schools properly teach sex ed… So what keeps it from growing to epidemic proportions again? I remember in 1987, my mom teaching me about it. I was 13. I asked about it in science class and got sent to the principal’s office for talking about condoms in class. I was told not to worry, ‘the news said it’s a gay disease.’

*insert eye roll*

If we don’t educate, we are doomed to repeat the past.