{"id":104133,"date":"2016-04-23T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:14:12","slug":"unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-104133 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/attachment\/104134\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/attachment\/104135\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o5_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o5_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o5_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/attachment\/104136\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/attachment\/104137\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/attachment\/104138\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o4_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o4_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o3q3ld8l7B1r2r773o4_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/unhistorical.tumblr.com\/post\/140827933313\" target=\"_blank\">unhistorical<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peter probably was infected within a few years, maybe even a few months, of his arrival in San Francisco. By the time he tested positive in 1985, he said, \u201cthe party was over.\u201d In those days, a decade before drugs were developed that could arrest the disease, anyone who tested positive expected to die quickly, gruesomely. Doctors did little to discourage that thinking. Make the most of the little time you have left, patients were told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that day on,\u201d Peter said, \u201cyou\u2019re always living with that in your head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just a year earlier, Peter had started a travel agency in the Castro with a friend, Jonathan Klein. For a few years, theirs was a joyful, flourishing business catering to the gay community. As the AIDS epidemic grew, they began charting final trips for young clients who needed oxygen or wheelchairs to travel.<\/p>\n<p>His doctor died of AIDS just months after Peter tested positive. Friends from high school and college died. In the Castro, where he lived and worked, men his age stooped over canes, withering away. Peter offered the spare bedroom in his apartment as a refuge for families and friends keeping vigil over loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one of the great world epidemics unfold in front of my eyes,\u201d Peter said. \u201cI have to carry that with me the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin tested positive for HIV. At 27, he felt he\u2019d been handed a death sentence. Now 56, Kevin doesn\u2019t have a job and rarely writes. He spends hours by himself in his apartment overlooking the Castro. Sometimes he\u2019s there all day.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019d thought there was any chance he would outlive AIDS, he might have stayed in school. He might have saved for retirement or bought a home. Instead, he said, \u201cI was preparing all that time to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fprojects.sfchronicle.com%2F2016%2Fliving-with-aids%2Fstory%2F%3Fsrc%3Dlongreads&amp;t=NGEzMjkxYTBhMTNjNDJkNmY2MjMxNTUwNDNkMzk0ZWQ3NDE0ZGMzNix2eW1OcHZvTQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Last Men Standing: The forgotten survivors of AIDS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unhistorical: Peter probably was infected within a few years, maybe even a few months, of his arrival in San Francisco. By the time he tested positive in 1985, he said, \u201cthe party was over.\u201d In those days, a decade before drugs were developed that could arrest the disease, anyone who tested positive expected to die &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/23\/unhistorical-peter-probably-was-infected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1583,1318,262,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104139,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104133\/revisions\/104139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}