At around the same time the group fell apart, he learned a family member was ill with complications of HIV infection. Scott-Walker was himself living with HIV, but he hadn’t disclosed his status widely. The most recent group had dissolved due to lack of interest, including his own. ![]() There was healing in the process, said Scott-Walker, but the groups rarely moved forward from it. People would come to the groups to unpack each week’s traumas. “They were just, like, really sad,” he explained. ![]() His friend raised the question in 2015, and by that point, the 35-year-old HIV program manager had accumulated over a decade’s worth of experience working in the HIV field, first in Baltimore and then in Atlanta, often leading such support groups. ![]() When asked to start a support group for gay black men living with HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, Larry Scott-Walker said no thanks.
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