The cultural repercussions of the AIDS plague will resonate into history. Now that HIV-positive status, due to pharmaceutical engineering, doesn’t have to be a death sentence, it is past time to consider the topic as more than taboo conversation. While there’s sad proof that some sections of our culture still stigmatize not only HIV, but the LGBTQ community—and HIV has infected and killed people in all communities—publications that focus on the topic are minimally acknowledged. Alfred Corn’s novel, Part of His Story (Mid-List Press, 1997), now more than a quarter century since publication, offers readers a meditation on love and life-in-grief which remains prescient. […]