As part of GCN & HIV Ireland’s LIVING exhibition, we spoke to the faces behind the portraits – meet Rebecca.
“The reason why I think we need to honour World AIDS Day, more than for me, more than anything, it’s for the people that we’ve lost. It’s for the people that didn’t and weren’t as lucky as I was to make it to medication time. People need to be very aware now that it is livable with.
“I’m an Irish Transgender woman and I just feel – people often say to me, how do you feel you got to where you are today? You know, you were diagnosed in ’87 and medication didn’t really come out ’til ’94, ’96, whatever. And I think it was the will to be Rebecca that won. I’m convinced of that.
“So I think it’s really important that the people are aware of that, that it’s not this killer disease, this tombstone fallen out of the sky; that was my era.
“So I think, I often think back. I often reflect and think it really must have been to be Rebecca. That was the most important thing. I wasn’t going to let it win.”
You can experience this unique portrayal of people LIVING with HIV in Ireland, until December 17 at CHQ Dublin and find out more in GCN’s December issue 369.
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