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I was very moved by this. My own life -- as a journalist writing about the arts in New York City and as a parent navigating what began as an unknowable crisis while so many friends and subjects were dying -- was essentially bookended by AIDS. This piece (http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/09/arts/aids-test-ordered-for-us-prisoners-immigration-creative-arts-being-reshaped.html) led the NYTimes in the spring of 1987; this one (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cvk_5R727TQBLsW7FRLvcuiVOmdslmg_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114777550804399846512&rtpof=true&sd=true) nearly a decade later. In between came Arlene Croce's New Yorker essay, "Discussing the Undiscussable," which was, for me, concrete shoes on the feet of a critical goddess.

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Wonderful reflection on the not-always conscious bias one projects onto others and ourselves.

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Beautiful essay.

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