![]() ![]() ![]() I had heard about AIDs, but I was very ignorant about it and seeing as it didn’t apply to me since I was straight, I didn’t give it a second thought. It was an eye opening discussion as we are around the same age and yet had very different experiences growing up. His teens years were during the 80s and 90s, when the AIDs epidemic was still major fear in the minds of many Americans who didn’t actually know how to deal with queer people and who didn’t understand why it was so important for them to see queer people as just people and not some defect in our species. A kind and open soul with a love for books, pride in who he is as a gay Iranian man, and passion for the LGBTQ community. I got a chance to interview author and producer Abdi Nazemian earlier this year at Yallwest in Santa Monica, where we talked about his latest book Like a Love Story, a story very personal to him as it features an Iranian teen who has to deal with living in a new city and coping with his queerness during the AIDs crisis.Ībdi is definitely one of a kind. ![]()
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