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As of the end of 2019, nearly 38 million people worldwide were living with HIV.
As of June 2020, 26 million HIV-infected people were receiving antiretroviral treatment, and those who failed to receive treatment could not be counted.
The reason why these two sets of data are presented is because this time I want to recommend a British drama related to love, homosexuality, and AIDS.
In this way, I would like to share with you what kind of predicament the homosexual group suffering from AIDS was in more than 20 years ago.
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The story takes place in a time when AIDS did not have an exact name.
In 1981, three young people from a small British town left their native families in different ways and came to live in prosperous London.
Wang Kailang, a college student, whose ideal in life is to be a big star, has a typical pair of strict fathers and loving mothers;
The black beauty, who did not want to be bound by a family who believed in Catholicism, resolutely ran away from home after coming out of the closet;
Li Hanhou, honest and responsible, worked as an intern in a high-end clothing store in London.
The only thing the three young boys had in common was that they all liked the same sex.
Maybe you who are reading this article, do not think that homosexuality is so strange.
However, in the 1980s, it was difficult for any type of LGBTQ people to be accepted by the public.
Apart from being brave to be their own black beauty, neither Wang Kailang nor Li Hanhou confessed to their families.
When they first arrived in London, they didn't even dare to reveal their sexuality to anyone.
Fortunately, someone is willing to open a new world for these ignorant boys.
Wang Kailang had the first intimate interaction in his life with the sunny and handsome Xu Xiaocao through the introduction of his girlfriend Zhang Youai.
The result can be imagined, the first experience is always jerky and awkward.
Fortunately, Wang Kailang and Xu Xiaocao became friends later, and the not-so-good memories of that night gradually turned into a topic that could be joked after tea and dinner.
Unexpectedly, the emotional transformation between the same sex is more natural than between the opposite sex.
On the other side, the manager of the ready-to-wear store where Li Hanhou was working could see at a glance that Li Hanhou was his kind.
The store manager not only shared his love story with Li Hanhou, but also invited Li Hanhou to his home as a guest.
Li Hanhou was very grateful to the store manager. When he saw that the store manager and her boyfriend had been in love with each other for 30 years, he suddenly understood that even if he was gay, he had the right to pursue a happy life.
Not long after, Li Hanhou met Wang Kailang and the black beauty at a gay party.
Li Hanhou was already looking for a house. He and two new friends hit it off and immediately decided to share a lease with them.
The three plus two other friends, Zhang Youai and Xu Xiaocao, four men and one woman rented an old house with cheap rent, and officially began to live together.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and there was sensational bad news from the United States.
It is said that there is a virus that spreads only among gays, and more than 40 gays have recently died from this virus in the United States.
A few months later, the virus arrived in London faster than news, and the store manager was caught.
Even the best hospitals in London at the time couldn't figure out what kind of virus it was.
Doctors speculated that the source of the virus was a certain kind of bird, and the skin of the patient would fester in pieces after the onset of the disease.
The hospital was unable to confirm the transmission route of the virus, and could only isolate the store manager.
He could not get effective treatment, his health deteriorated, and his boyfriend left him.
Li Hanhou went to visit the store manager. He couldn't believe it. The 30-year relationship had come to an end, and he was so vulnerable.
It didn't take long for the store manager to die, and the virus quietly spread across London.
However, the disappearance of just one person did not attract much attention.
The lives of Wang Kailang and the black beauty have become more and more intoxicated. Without the constraints of family, they completely let themselves go.
The two of them hardly take any security measures, refuse men who come, and never control their desires.
When "AIDS" entered their field of vision, Wang Kai rolled his eyes, thinking that this was just a new gimmick that pharmaceutical companies came up with to cheat money.
That's right, at the time when we were talking about AIDS.
Few people try to understand how AIDS is transmitted, what the symptoms are, and how to treat it.
And because AIDS is tied to homosexuality, most people scoff at AIDS.
If you ask the doctor, what kind of disease is AIDS? The moment you ask the question, you will be kicked out of the office by the doctor.
Not long after that, another friend fell ill with AIDS.
There is only one girl among the five roommates, and Zhang Youai knows about it.
She especially wanted to take care of her friends, but she was more than enough because she knew so little about AIDS.
Since he could not collect relevant information in London, Zhang Youai asked Li Hanhou, who was on a business trip to New York, to find AIDS-related information.
After all, AIDS was discovered first in the United States, and public opinion in New York was more open.
Li Hanhou lived up to Zhang Youai's entrustment, but he also lost his job because of his relationship with AIDS.
Even if he just bought a few newspapers, a few magazines.
Li Hanhou didn't feel unemployed for too long, he found a new goal.
Li Hanhou came to a printing shop and continued to work as a part-time worker. He used his job to print posters and organize gatherings for AIDS patients.
Not only that, he also worked with Zhang Youai to provide AIDS patients and their families with some help within their ability.
But how cruel fate is, it just refuses to let good people have good rewards.
Li Hanhou had a sudden epilepsy, and his mother came from his hometown to take his son home to take care of him.
Li Hanhou had a blood test at the small hospital in his hometown, and the hospital speculated that his epilepsy was caused by HIV.
Afraid of contagion, the local police locked Li Hanhou in a small dark room, and even went to the toilet to solve it on the spot.
The accident happened so suddenly!
The roommates also didn't know who he passed or when he contracted HIV.
But the top priority now is to get Li Hanhou back to the big hospital in London for timely treatment.
Zhang Youai and Xu Xiaocao invited a lawyer to negotiate with the police to rescue Li Hanhou from the dark room.
Wang Kailang and Hei Meiren finally felt that HIV was lurking around them, and anyone could be infected with the slightest carelessness.
Then, with the efforts of his mother and roommates, Li Hanhou was finally transferred to a regular hospital.
HIV was rapidly circulating in his body, and Li Hanhou's resistance continued to decline until he couldn't even bear a small cold.
He was in a trance all day, unable to communicate with people normally.
The simple, kind, and always considerate Li Hanhou will never come back.
One morning, Li Hanhou left everyone forever.
Afterwards, more and more gay friends lost their lives to AIDS, causing the roommates to live in panic and sadness all day long.
Wang Kailang, Hei Mei and Xu Xiaocao went to the hospital for blood tests.
Black Beauty and Xu Xiaocao are healthy.
Among the three, only Wang Kailang dared not bear the blood test results, and was afraid that the virus was already lurking in his body, so he began to go to the hospital behind his roommates.
Generally, there will be a process from the infection of HIV virus to the development of the virus into AIDS, and the incubation period of HIV in the human body is as long as 8-9 years.
Given that HIV is a virus that mainly attacks the human immune system, Wang Kailang chose to eat raw eggs, flaxseeds, and various resistance-enhancing medicines.
He was willing to try any remedies from the hearsay, as long as they worked against HIV.
During this process, Wang Kailang passed the audition and is about to become a real actor.
He also took out a loan with Zhang Youai to buy the house where he lives now.
Thinking that everything was going in a good direction, Wang Kailang gathered up his courage again and went to the hospital for a blood test for the second time.
The blood test data was not optimistic. Wang Kailang knew that he had been given a suspended death sentence, but he still chose to face it with a smile.
When Wang Kailang learned that he was ill, his first reaction was to say goodbye to the past.
He suddenly returned to his hometown and cooked a meal for his family after a long absence, which shocked his parents.
Then, he went to the small bar in town and confessed to the male classmate he had a crush on when he was in school.
Even if the male classmate is a straight man of steel, Wang Kailang doesn't care, he just wants to fulfill his last wish.
He's going to give the boy he's dreamed of in his puberty his last dance.
Meanwhile, Zhang Youai and Xu Xiaocao organized a parade on AIDS and homosexuality.
They took to the streets to speak out for their AIDS-affected friends who were still discriminated against.
At the beginning, the parade went well, and passers-by gave encouragement.
But soon someone called the police. When the police arrived at the scene, they violently arrested the friends who participated in the parade.
The team of dozens of people was instantly dispersed, and everyone was more or less colored.
Just then, Wang Kailang rushed back, and he rushed forward to stop the police.
Wang Kailang knew that no one would be able to beat him with his small body, but he just wanted to contribute to the parade and be crazy for his friends.
Afterwards, Wang Kailang and his roommates explained his current physical condition.
But he also asked friends not to worry, he will not be overwhelmed by the disease, he will hide from his family and actively receive treatment.
Wang Kailang went to bed early and got up early to maintain a happy mood, and took medicine on time three times a day until the disease was slightly better.
In front of his parents who came to hear the news, he showed a guilty look, but he could only tell the facts and the whole story at one time.
A few truths from a son are like a bolt from the blue to middle-aged parents.
Under such a huge blow, Wang Kailang's parents decided to take their son home for conservative treatment.
Under the extreme anger, the mother could only vent to Wang Cheong's roommates, especially Zhang Youai.
She believed that Zhang Youai abducted her son to be gay, and that it was the black beauty and Xu Xiaocao who infected her son with AIDS.
Zhang Youai was powerless to refute a mother who was about to lose her son. She could only follow the black beauty to Wang Kailang's hometown. As long as Wang Kailang's mother let go, they would accompany Wang Kailang on the final journey.
Undoubtedly, Wang Kailang wanted to get together with his friends. On the small bed in his bedroom, he told his mother for the first time about the boys he loved.
And told his mother that he never regretted it because he had had so many happy times.
On the afternoon of the day he finished saying these words, Wang Kailang left, and he finally failed to say goodbye to his friends.
In order to fulfill her son's last wish, the mother asked Zhang Youai to meet.
Of course, Zhang Youai couldn't accept that her friends left them like this.
She knew that the mother in front of her was suffering the pain of losing her child, but she had to make it clear to him that if Wang Kailang had been receiving treatment in a large hospital in London, he would not have gone so fast.
If there were no parents who refused to admit their children's sexuality, if there were no people who thought homosexuality was a crime, there would not have been countless boys like Wang Kailang who used AIDS as a punishment for homosexuality.
The mother tried several times to refute, but she found that she could not say a word.
She had to admit that Zhang Youai was right.
At the end of the story, all friends, including Zhang Youai, miss that enthusiastic, brave and dreamed of becoming a big star Wang Kailang.
There are also many boys like Wang Kailang. They have been loved and loved, and they deserve to be treated with tenderness.
"It's a Sin" seems like a positive sentence, but the whole show is about a negative sentence, it's not a sin.
HIV is a virus, AIDS is a contagious disease, and we treat it when we are sick.
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation, and sexual orientation only determines the object of love, not the cause of AIDS.
Now that I think about it, how brave the protagonists in the play are, they are willing to accept themselves and fight against the outside world for their companions.
What are they guilty of?
Just before I finish chasing "This is a Sin", I also intend to give you some popular science about the transmission route of AIDS, or the possible complications of AIDS patients.
But at this moment, I no longer want to talk about those cold knowledge that can be found by Baidu and Google.
To the LGBTQ community, or to AIDS patients, we are just outsiders, bystanders.
And "It's a Sin" wants to tell the audience through the experience of the protagonists that a person's sexual orientation and whether he is sick cannot be used as a criterion for judging him or her.
We are all ordinary people living in this world, just like you and me.
However, when small groups need help and support, I still hope to see the friendly eyes and tolerant attitude of the public.
No ridicule, no contempt, less malicious speculation.
After all, love is innocent, and it is also innocent to love anyone, and the only guilt is probably the damn HIV.
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With one watching as encouragement, I will also recommend more unpopular dramas and talk about more topics worthy of discussion.
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