Opinion | ZachStafford: Being a fan of American rap music and being openly gay has always been — to put it mildly — incredibly complicated. Last week, rising superstar DaBaby provided me with a perfect reminder of why that’s still the case now, in 2021.
For many years as a journalist, I traveled around the country meeting HIV-positive people and interviewing them about their lives for the book “.” A consistent thread through all of them was the tremendous stigma they faced. Sometimes it was the othering they felt as a gay person leading them to engage in higher-risk behaviors because they didn’t feel comfortable talking to doctors or friends about safer ways to have sex.
What many have told me — and what I personally know to be true as a Black gay man — is that to stop this virus from continuing to ravage communities for another 40 years, we have to stop reducing the people whose lives it impacts to harmful stereotypes about the disease they carry in the ways Kirk did . Instead, we need to talk about sex in ways that don't make people feel that if they do one thing wrong, then their whole life should be ruined.
Kirk has tried to PR spin his way out of the mounting backlash against him as more and more music festivals and brands pull away. That’s especially true when HIV isn’t even the same death sentence it first was, not if people actually get tested and get the care they deserve. The alternative is living in darkness so they can raise their cellphone lighters up at a DaBaby concert.
Kirk has tried to PR spin his way out of the mounting backlash against him as more and more music festivals and brands pull away. This has mostly involved trying to gain empathy by
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