EDITORIAL.- If last week we gave our editorial space to a group of students who told us about our history, today it is a protagonist of that time who occupies it. Just reissued "25 more years", book published in 2003 by historical gay activist Jordi Petit, which reviews with the perspective that the passage of time, what the history of the LGTB movement in Spain has given in the last 25 years.
But this book is much more than a simple logbook of the homosexual struggle. "25 more years" is a lucid look at the events that have marked the lives of so many millions of people, events that have taken us from euphoria to collapse to resurface again and rise in this moment of fulfillment that pervades today.
Like a craftsman in front of the loom, Petit chooses those threads of history that would imply a radical change in what we were living and how we were living it. Because when the gallant par excellence, the most masculine face of the big screen, Rock Hudson announces on July 25, 1985 that he suffers from AIDS and that he was tired of pretending a life that was not his, something made an appearance in all consciences. Two months later, his death buried with shovels of fear and stigmatizing condemnations the gay liberation party that we had only just begun to enjoy. As Petit sums up well in a lapidary phrase: "And suddenly the party is over ..."
They began some hard years, of ignorance, of condemnations, of suppositions, of funerals and farewells, of incomprehension. But those were also the years in which ties were strengthened, solidarity was worked side by side, the head was raised with pride and enough knowledge accumulated to end up being the support that the whole society needed the day it assumed that the AIDS, it was not just a matter of "yonkies and queers".
They have spent 30 years, they have been behind 25 millions of deaths and 42 millions of people infected by the virus, but the stigma and invisibility of contagion still persists today. Something that, combined with the advances in research that have transformed AIDS into a chronic, though not without sequela, disease, has led to some relaxation in customs and the return of risky practices that trigger contagion statistics.
Jordi Petit speaks to us about everything in his book from experience, from understanding and tenderness, in a story full of anecdotes that provides a necessary vision of our history from within, from those who have played it.
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«Just submitted»? This book was not published in 2003?
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