On Tuesday morning ,Charlie Sheen officially announced that he was HIV positive, confirming a story that many of us had read about on news and gossip sites a full day prior . Sheen’s diagnosis was treated as a salacious story—the Hollywood nasty boy gets his comeuppance (just deserts) for years of drug expend and sex workers. It was a contemporary-day parable for clean living. It also made clear that many Americans are still mired in the ignorance, or fear-mongering,and stigmatization that defined the HIV epidemic in the 1980s.
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