Regan Hoffman

“One of the worst symptoms of HIV is secrecy...if you get HIV? You get secretive. Insular. Paranoid. Your life becomes a giant pretense so no one finds out you have thise disease. You don't know what people will do for you because you are too afraid to tell them.”

“I am a walking biohazard - a heated container of deadly viral particles. I don't look sick. But I could kill you. I am a part of a tribe of people bound by bad biology: misunderstood, deeply feared because of the human immunodeficiency virus I carry and bearing a crippling stigma that has long kept me silent.”