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| Ron Simmons, executive director of Us Helping Us, in his new office. The organization operates under an annual budget of $2.3 million and is one of the largest secular black AIDS organizations in the country. (Photo by Katherine Volin) |
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By: KATHERINE VOLIN COMMENTS
 
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the age of 5. Basically, for black gay men, what they’re dealing with is really childhood trauma. So it’s not that they don’t know how to save their lives from HIV, it’s that they don’t know that their lives are worth saving.”
Despite the overwhelming work left to do, Simmons remains determined to express pride in the focus of Us Helping Us.
“To me, it’s important that we say it. ‘We are gay,’” Simmons says. “We need to keep saying it, because it’s too easy to forget it.”
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