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Toronto chefs open Canada’s first HIV-positive restaurant to dispel stigmas
The Toronto Star ^ | Wed., Nov. 8, 2017 | MAIJA KAPPLER

Posted on 11/08/2017 1:11:46 PM PST by Antioch

While working as a sexual health educator in Calgary several years ago, artist and activist Mikiki would often gently correct clients who said they had never met a gay person. Actually, you probably have but just didn’t know it, Mikiki would explain.

Today, living and working in Toronto, Mikiki says similar conversations happen frequently about HIV.

“When people say, ‘I don’t know anybody who’s HIV-positive,’ I’m like, ‘If you live in Toronto, you actually do,’ ” says Mikiki.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hiv; homosexual
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A restaurant whose focus is not on the food but on the positive aspects of a contagious, terminal disease.
1 posted on 11/08/2017 1:11:46 PM PST by Antioch
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Sick bodies, sick minds. What next???


2 posted on 11/08/2017 1:12:57 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Antioch

I’ve heard their chocolate covered wieners are to die for.


3 posted on 11/08/2017 1:13:11 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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I don't think it will stay open for very long.

4 posted on 11/08/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Antioch

Yuuuuk!


5 posted on 11/08/2017 1:14:56 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
ROFLOL!!!

Snort!!!

6 posted on 11/08/2017 1:15:33 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Osage Orange

And I’ll have a side of Hep C


7 posted on 11/08/2017 1:16:41 PM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: Antioch

Optional hazmat suits available to our patrons at no charge from the door hostess.


8 posted on 11/08/2017 1:17:30 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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One more reason That I’m glad I drove there in 1977.
Nothing in the whole country that is operated or overseen by a human worth looking into, anymore.


9 posted on 11/08/2017 1:17:34 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Antioch

Avoid the white sauce.


10 posted on 11/08/2017 1:17:38 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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I want to be reminded of terminally ill people when I sit down to eat my food.

Its already killed my appetite. No thanks.


11 posted on 11/08/2017 1:18:08 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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Amazing how many goals from the commie goals the NWO has now. Trying to make HIV a normal everyday thing.


12 posted on 11/08/2017 1:18:41 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
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To: Antioch

What does the Health Dept say ?


13 posted on 11/08/2017 1:20:07 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Joe 6-pack

Used to be all I worried about was a clean restaurant bathroom so I didn’t catch a STD from the toilet seat. Why does it hurt when I pee? It jumped right up And grabbed my meat. Oh God, I probably got the Gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!


14 posted on 11/08/2017 1:20:18 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: EagleUSA

What next? Probably “Toronto chefs closes Canada’s first HIV-positive restaurant”


15 posted on 11/08/2017 1:21:50 PM PST by wattsgnu
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I don't think it will stay open for very long.

Ohhhhh, the restaurant.

16 posted on 11/08/2017 1:22:05 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Antioch

What a terrible idea.


17 posted on 11/08/2017 1:22:28 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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Next up - restaurants with anal syphilis and Hepatitis C positive themes!


18 posted on 11/08/2017 1:24:16 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Antioch

Don’t order the Chili Dogs.


19 posted on 11/08/2017 1:24:32 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Antioch
I propose a whole row of similarly themed restaurants.
20 posted on 11/08/2017 1:25:08 PM PST by DannyTN
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