‘You are not forgotten’: How teaching AIDS literature honors my father, and so many others
- Posted on December 5, 2025
- By NPR
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‘You are not forgotten’: How teaching AIDS literature honors my father, and so many others
Alysia Abbott was 18 when the first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. I was aware of the disease and terrified my gay father would get it, she writes. But I didn’t tell anyone. Now, I’m teaching AIDS literature and AIDS history to students who are the same age I was when my dad first got sick.
