Graying of AIDS Portraits

Anna Fowlkes, 64 | Baltimore, MD

I met my husband in a night club. He was one of the musicians there and I used to go […]

No matter what we do, sex is a beautiful gift, because it is such an exhilarating feeling, and it’s such

I would like to say that it’s not the end. There was a time when somebody said you had HIV,

I don’t feel old. I never thought of myself as being 57, 60. I didn’t think that far, you know.

I wanted to do something that made a difference, and that’s why I took the job for Mayor Daley as

Linda: I look at him how he was, and I look at him now, I feel so bad. Because I

Louis: She took a chance with me. It’s funny, I’m positive, but I didn’t wanna ask a woman that was

I was always working on my music. That was a part of who I was. I was practicing instead of

Certainly, since the advent of protease inhibitors and the real progress in antiretroviral medication, the ability to treat HIV infection

I’ve been to places like that where people over 50 live. And these ladies, older ladies, say: oh, but he’s

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