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Louis\u2019s contradictory attitude about sex reflects the dilemma of sex or AIDS that facing by the queer community at that time.<\/p>\n
In Act 1 Scene 4, after Louis visited Prior in the hospital, he went to the park and hooked up with another man. In the beginning, the man didn\u2019t want to use the \u201crubber\u201d, but Louis consisted that he wouldn\u2019t have sex without the \u201crubber\u201d. At this point, as a gay man who just saw his boyfriend suffering a lot from AIDS, Louis was really terrified by AIDS and can give up anything, either boyfriend or sex, to get rid of AIDS. However, when the condom broke, it was Louis who wanted to keep going without the rubber but the man who chose to leave. So, what made Louis change in such a short time? When they have sex, Louis was not a gay man who has a sick boyfriend anymore, he was just a man who wants to be happy at this moment. His fear of AIDS went away just like the shame of having sex in a public place. Louis’s words \u201cInfect me. I don’t care. I don’t care\u201d are also the voice of a group of other gay men like him at that time. For them, life just becomes another thing, like family, like social status, that they need to sacrifice to be themselves.<\/p>\n
Having sex and taking the risk of AID or yielding to AIDS and saying no to sex is a hard choice to make for not only Louis and this man but the whole queer community at that time. The author, by letting the rubber brock, shows how even the thought of AIDS can make gay people change their behavior and how greatly AIDS affects queer people. Louis and that man\u2019s vacillation also reflects other queer people\u2019s vacillation. Rather than being clear about what they exactly want to do toward AIDS, there is also a group of people that are still being shocked by AIDS, can\u2019t get used to it, and don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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