by HIVE Online | Jun 6, 2018 | HIV- Men, LGBT-identified, New Stories, PrEP for Sex, Relationships Dating Disclosure, Trans Men
One thing I definitely have learned from Jaz, is we cannot control what love looks like or what package it comes in. I have also learned that her positive status doesn?t have to get in the way of us enjoying each other. There is so much I have learned about her journey into womanhood and I have been able to teach her the same about my path into my manhood. Before Jaz, I thought I knew what it was to be trans, but I have learned we all have much different journeys from person to person.
by HIVE Online | Jun 6, 2018 | LGBT-identified, New Stories, Relationships Dating Disclosure, Trans Women, Women Living with HIV
No more did I concentrate on men who only wanted me in the shadows and in the midnight hour. Luckie was teaching me that as a HIV+ trans woman of color I deserve to be love and treated with respect. We have been very successful with PrEP In our lives, it?s helped us maintain Luckie?s HIV- status. I hope by sharing our different love paths to each other, we can inform the community that love has no fear when it?s love leading the way.
by HIVE Online | May 30, 2017 | Heterosexual-identified, HIVE Blog, Men Living with HIV, Relationships Dating Disclosure
My name is Nestor Rogel, I am 27 years old and I was born HIV positive. I live in South Central Los Angeles, and have been advocating for people living with HIV for many years. Being a single heterosexual cis gender man in Los Angeles is difficult. Dating and disclosure have taken on different meanings in my life.
by HIVE Online | Apr 26, 2017 | HIVE Blog, Relationships Dating Disclosure, Safer Conception, Women Living with HIV
I had eventually hit my bottom, where I had to get into treatment. At that time I had a beautiful healthy son. I completed a drug program, got my own place and was in a new relationship. I decided to get tested because my significant other and I wanted a baby. I found out that I was HIV-positive.
by HIVE Online | Mar 21, 2017 | Heterosexual-identified, HIVE Blog, Men Living with HIV, Relationships Dating Disclosure
Every child learns and grows at a different pace, I know back in the day kids grew up a lot faster and weren’t coddled as the ones today. I don’t think my daughter quite understands the gravity of the virus and what it comes with, the doctors, the stigma, the friends and family casting you out, mostly because of ignorance, so, when I think she can wrap her head around it is when I’ll discuss it with her.
by HIVE Online | Feb 20, 2017 | Heterosexual-identified, HIVE Blog, Men Living with HIV, Relationships Dating Disclosure, Safer Conception
One of the few things I?ve learned in life is that if you stay positive and constantly ask the universe, eventually you do get what you want, which in this case, is exactly what happened.
