'I'm Black, Trans and HIV Positive'
'I'm Black, Trans and HIV Positive' Gracie Cartier On 4/24/21 at 5:30 AM EDT In many ways, my life had just begun in 2003. I was single, a hairstylist, living on my own, co-parenting my eight-year-old daughter, and traveling. Life was, in many ways, what I had imagined and hoped it would be. I had been sexually active for some years and knew I should be getting regularly tested for sexually transmitted diseases, but I was afraid. The fear was only made worse as friends and loved ones around me passed after contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). For the first time e...