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Junior
August 3, 1995
Junior's Apartment
Upper Tenderloin, San Francisco
Junior's younger brother Bunso is present.
MW: Is there much denial that it touches people in the Philippines?
Junior: Yeah, in a way, but I think more and more we're accepting everything Americans do. We adore Americans. Being in America is a big opportunity. You would sell everything just to get here. You didn't realize?
MW: No.
Junior: I have schoolmates who live in San Francisco and back east. Sometimes I like to talk to them, but I canĀt open up the issue of HIV because I know if I tell them it will spread like fire. The performance would be a good way for me to tell people, in person. I don't know if the priest will allow me to do that, maybe not because I want to talk about relationships, and premarital sex. But they might let me because I'm an alumnus of the school. If I can present to them in a nice way, people will benefit. I don't want just the students to see the show, but also their parents, so they'll understand that they need to communicate with their children about sex. I wish I went to a non-Catholic school, where I wouldn't be afraid to ask questions.
MW: You feel that's discouraged?
Junior: Yeah. I remember when my brother was in high school here, and one time I was cleaning our apartment and I saw some condoms underneath the bed. I freaked out. It's like, "Oh, God - my brother has a condom!" And then after a few days he handed it to me and said, "Go use it." Do you remember that?
"Oh, God - my younger brother, he gave me a condom!" When I was his age, at that time, I hadn't seen a condom.
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