{"id":19045,"date":"2019-02-10T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T10:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19045"},"modified":"2019-02-10T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T10:40:58","slug":"hiv-isnt-just-a-gay-issue-its-a-social-justice-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/hiv-isnt-just-a-gay-issue-its-a-social-justice-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV Isn\u2019t Just a Gay Issue, It\u2019s a \u2018Social Justice Issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"articleImg \"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"HIV Isn\u2019t Just a Gay Issue, It\u2019s a \u2018Social Justice Issue\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/sites\/out.com\/files\/2019\/02\/07\/george-m-johnsonx750.jpg\" alt=\"George M. Johnson \" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"authorBox\">\n<div class=\"box\">\n<div class=\"articleTeaser\">\n<p>Writer and activist George M. Johnson instructs us, on National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day, on the role we all play in the search for a cure.<\/p>\n<p>The late activist and writer Joseph Beam once deemed the act of a Black man loving another Black man a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnownext.com\/black-men-loving-black-men-is-a-revolutionary-act\/05\/2017\/\">revolutionary act<\/a>.\u201d I imagine that doing so, while also living unapologetically with HIV, is doubly insurgent. But that\u2019s perhaps the only way to describe the life and work of George M. Johnson. A writer, activist, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iamgmjohnson.com\/\">soon-to-be author<\/a>, he\u2019s committed to the work of toppling the patriarchy, challenging anti-Blackness, and confronting homophobia, transphobia, and HIV stigma wherever he sees it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/out-exclusives\/2019\/2\/07\/hiv-isnt-just-gay-issue-its-social-justice-issue\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Writer and activist George M. Johnson instructs us, on National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day, on the role we all play in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}