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Nicolas and Christine are both HIV positive. They each discovered their contamination at different times. Together, they discuss on Brut. their daily lives, their stigma, testing and treatment.
“Me, when I announced it, I had letters of death threats, insults, I stopped going out in clubs, because as soon as I went out, people shouted at me saying ‘dirty AIDS, go to hell’.“Nicolas, president of the supersero association, has HIV. When he announced a few years ago that he had discovered his HIV status, he suffered a wave of hatred. “It’s crazy, because you, it was a few years ago, so finally you say to yourself ‘has the world evolved?’ When you announce that you are HIV-positive or HIV-positive, it’s complicated.“Christine Aubère is also HIV positive. Former football player, her career stopped when she learned of her infection in her youth.
“At that time, it’s true that we didn’t know too much about the disease. Modes of infection. I was so afraid of contaminating the other that for years, but for years I remained without sexuality. Because I was too scared”, adds Christine Aubère. “When I started to have a sexuality again, there was all the behavior of people that took over. Because I was talking about it, I was saying ‘I’m HIV positive’”, replies Nicholas. “It was very complicated. Either it was people telling me they had no problem, then, in fact, they were withdrawing every two minutes to see if the condom had not cracked, or, during the act, the guy would stop and tell me about his uncle who died of AIDS.”