My name is Makana and I am a junior psychology and art major. I am from Hawaii, where the gay population is widely accepted. Through my current AIDS class I have learned just how ignorant I was. Much like an ignorant teenager, I thought that the idea of me contracting HIV was far fetched. I felt invincible. I realize there is still a lot for me to learn but I am more aware and better able to take the neccessary precautions to stay HIV negative. And I am better able to understand the faces who...

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I was stunned to find out that a large majority of the HIV/AIDS cases in the United States are from the African American community.  I had no previous knowledge of this and frankly I was appalled to learn about the lack of effort to fight the disease.  It is not something that is openly addressed in the community.  The African American community needs to improve its efforts and the discrimination towards homosexual black males needs to cease.  I encourage the African American students of Whit...
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Hi everyone! This is Calvin.  I cannot believe how ignorant I was on the HIV/AIDS issue especially as a young gay male in which I am a part of a community the disease greatly impacts. I believe there is definitely a generation gap between the young and the younger gay community partly because anti-retrovirals (drugs to treat HIV/AIDS) have been available and severity of the disease has been cushioned.

Before I started learning about the disease, I had the preconception that it was "us" agains...
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