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BILLINGS: I know you did.
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And I know so many people who didn’t survive from those years. When I speak to somebody who survived HIV in the early years, I often wonder how they made it through.
BILLINGS: Well, I’ll give you my stock answer: I have absolutely no fucking idea. You’d have to ask a power much greater than me about how I survived it. I can tell you this: that the images I have of that time are of a very specific, tangible sense of death. And I find it fascinating that we are you and I and our whole queer generation in our second viral plague. And the funny thing is nobody comes to ask us what to do next. And yet, strangely, all of us know what’s coming. All of us do.