The Advocate

Why We Must Be PrEP-ared!

I absorb the daily COVID news and grim statistics, my body shudders with familiarity. We’re exchanging the same terms from my youth as a gay man in New York City in the early ’80s — “They are getting tested.” “He has it.” “She’s positive.” “Did you hear who died?” Now all back in macabre vogue.

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