I Do Have a Voice

I’m very proud of my voice and I do have a voice.

I don’t really think of myself as a trailblazer or anything like that, but maybe I am the first person that people [at church] have contact with that have HIV

[A trash can] is like what it felt like to be different. You’re thought of like the trash. You’re something unimportant.

After some education, some learning by the people that go to church and people that are working in the church, there’s [potential for] a blossoming, and growth of acceptance in the church.

I’m almost 60 years old. It’s taken this long to get where I am. There has been growth, but I don’t think we’re ready to see acceptance [in the church] in my lifetime.

The growth is incremental. It is significant. It’s huge.

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