Still, even the most dynamic job could seem daunting when one has been dealing with the many facets of AIDS for almost eight years. It certainly can be a heavy load, he said. Wil also has the support of his family to buoy him. My family has been extremely supportive from the beginning, and proud of me. That s been a great thing for me.
B eing so deep in the trenches is still very challenging.
Wil has noticed a difference between his friends that are consciously affected by HIV and those that are only unconsciously affected by the disease and its effects on us all. For good or bad, I get to be an HIV advocate outside the job, too. This means seeing how some people are still deluded into thinking that they can t catch HIV, particularly MSM, the demographic category recently added by the CDC referring to Men who have Sex with Men, but don t identify themselves as being gay. He went on to explain how MSM includes a large number of minorities, and that these men are not as likely to be exposed to the safer sex messages that dominate the landscape of the gay community. They re more likely to fall through the cracks of communication.