"Safe Sex is the New Black"
A sold-out crowd jammed Chicago’s tres chick Le Passage last Thursday (May 8) to make a bold, fashion-forward statement about HIV. The Junior Board of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, and over 300 of their closed friends brought attention to HIV testing in style, and substance, at the Make a Statement: Design for the Cure event.
Hosted by Steven Rosengard of Bravo’s Project Runway, the event featured a fashion show starring some of Chicago’s hottest designers highlighted by Junior Board members modeling custom t-shirts with provocative HIV prevention messages.
By the way, "AIDS Apathy Makes Your Ass Look Big."
[it aint the jeans, doll!]
(photos by Kat Fitzgerald.)
If safe sex is the new black, why are the shirts RED?
ReplyDeletethat is a good question? perhaps because red is the new black, so ipso facto urbum.... i dunno?
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ReplyDeleteOh, let's see... I would KNOW my status with regular testing, and my partner would KNOW their status with regular testing and we each would KNOW the other's status through open, direct, honest, regular communication. We wouldn't assume, and we wouldn't pretend that our relationship, on its own, was somehow maghically protective.
ReplyDelete> Oh, let's see... I would KNOW my status with
ReplyDelete> regular testing, and my partner would KNOW their
> status with regular testing
With regular testing when there are infections wouldn't it already be too late for the other person exposed?...
The results of a test are a potential life-changer.
ReplyDeleteThe change may come in time to save the person tested and/or the person put in danger.
In either case this is pretty much the only way to get enough information to make a rational decision about future behavior.