Excellent point, but I thought I would add that in certain communities in the United States, AIDS remains a pretty bad problem. The year Trump was elected for the first time, I toured an AIDS ward in a Detroit hospital.

I had no idea such places still existed! I felt like I was flashing back to the early '90s and my days as an AIDS activist. I've learned since then that HIV and AIDS remain critica problems in U.S. queer communities of color, and markedly so in the rural South.

It's a question of racism, political apathy, and a broken health-care system that often leaves marginalized people struggling to pay for treatment.

Something insidious about AIDS is that the more times you stop and restart HIV treatment, the less effective the treatment becomes.

The people I visited in that ward were in critical condition, not responding well to treatment that would have saved their lives if they've been able to start it and stay on it.

Of course, I don't want to take away from main point, so I'll just note the following:

Conservative politicians in the United States want us queer people to go back, something that HIV among marginalized Americans is just one symptom of.

And now, a few craven Democratic politicians are jumping on that same train with Republicans ... again.

The fight is never over. Conservatives will always try to hurt us and even destroy us.

It's up to us to remain strong or become strong, and fight like hell.

Thank you for your story!