Strong reactions from the HIV-positive Association of Greece after the recent revelations of the choreographer Tasos Xiarchos on the podcast of Daphne Karavokyris “Sex Pocast” in which he revealed for the first time that he is also HIV-positive.

“To begin with we have to explain what HIV positive is. The HIV virus is HIV positive, which takes many years to activate,” he said in this interview and continued:

“Two years ago, in a month like this, I had a strange dream and woke up and said ‘I have AIDS.’ It had a lot of thorns, a lot of blood. I’ve had this dream since I was a baby, an old woman looking at me like I’m dying. Maybe I had the fear inside me, because I had sex without protection, because I did drugs, I was lost.”

But it was not his revelation that brought reactions. It was the following quote in which he responded to whether his diagnosis has affected his sex life:
“In this gay space and Grindr if the other guy doesn’t want to put a condom on, he wants to go without and he knows it might happen in his life, I can’t let every guy know what I have, knowing it doesn’t even stick .

I’ve had them want us to have sex so they can hook up and get the allowance. It’s about 700 euros, I’ll get it this year. I felt remorse for taking money that was due to my carelessness and not from my organization. Now I will take it because psychologically I fell so much when I found out that I lost jobs etc. It was heavy, brutal for a person who saw this until then with the movies” he said and this is exactly what caused reactions.

Violent reactions from the HIV-positive Association of Greece

On the occasion of the debate that has been developing in the last few hours in the public sphere regarding the HIV allowance on behalf of the HIV-positive Association of Greece – Positive Voice writes the email that reached our hands and includes the following Press Release:

“Positive Voice supports every person living with HIV. At the same time, it condemns misinformation and any stigmatizing and abusive speech concerning people living with HIV, as well as HIV-vulnerable social groups.

The health problems, loss of work, stigma and marginalization experienced by those of us living with HIV, remain to this day extremely unfavorable to be compensated by any financial assistance provided by the state.
People and the media who wish to learn about HIV and what it’s like to live with the virus and its effects can speak to or be informed by Positive Voice and not adopt or reproduce urban myths that further abuse already vulnerable communities , even if formulated by people living with HIV. No research and no testimony has confirmed such a thing.”