The AIDS Memorial: Stories of Love, Loss, and Remembrance
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In collaboration with The AIDS Memorial, we present this special episode of Talk Easy. Five stories of love, loss, and remembrance from those impacted by the AIDS epidemic. We thank Aaron (2:36), James (19:45), Kelly (49:19), Jeff (1:05:39), and Theresa (1:39:13) for having the courage to share parts of their lives with us. (Warning: this episode contains intermittently graphic and severe language.)
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everyone, this is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco. |
| 0:14.8 | This past Tuesday, December 1st, we celebrated World's AIDS Day. |
| 0:20.3 | It's an opportunity for people worldwide to stand in solidarity with the fight against HIV, |
| 0:28.0 | to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who've died from AIDS-related illnesses. |
| 0:36.6 | Globally, there's an estimated 38 million people who currently have the virus. And since 1984, more than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS. |
| 0:50.0 | As traumatizing as those numbers are, they are just numbers when I say them. |
| 0:57.0 | And that's why today we present you with this special episode. |
| 1:02.0 | Five real stories. We present you with this special episode. |
| 1:03.0 | Five real stories from people who've either contracted the virus or have been deeply |
| 1:08.6 | affected by it. |
| 1:10.6 | We made this piece in collaboration with the AIDS Memorial. |
| 1:15.0 | For those unfamiliar with their work, I encourage you to visit them on Instagram. |
| 1:20.5 | The page is a collection of portraits, people sharing their stories of love, loss, and remembrance. |
| 1:28.0 | Today on the show, we hope to share in that same spirit. Now before we start I want to offer a fair warning. |
| 1:37.8 | What you're about to hear is incredibly painful and sometimes graphic. |
| 1:44.1 | These are brave individuals willing to share their histories and traumas publicly. |
| 1:51.2 | These are stories often around fear and abandonment of people trying to accept themselves |
| 1:58.4 | in a world that has been historically unkind to the LGBT QIA community. These stories show the ramifications and the |
| 2:08.3 | residual consequences of this disease. But there are also stories, I think, of hope and triumph. |
| 2:20.0 | I present you these people as I approach them, |
| 2:23.8 | complete strangers. |
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