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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 didnt know it, Mikiki would explain.
Today, living and working in Toronto, Mikiki says similar conversations happen frequently about HIV.
When people say, I dont know anybody whos HIV-positive, Im like, If you live in Toronto, you actually do, says Mikiki.
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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.
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:11:46 PM PST
by
Antioch
To: Antioch
Sick bodies, sick minds. What next???
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:12:57 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: Antioch
I’ve heard their chocolate covered wieners are to die for.
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:13:11 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Antioch
I don't think it will stay open for very long.
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:13:18 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Antioch
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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.)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:15:33 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Watch your six.)
To: Osage Orange
And I’ll have a side of Hep C
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:16:41 PM PST
by
cport
(How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
To: Antioch
Optional hazmat suits available to our patrons at no charge from the door hostess.
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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.)
To: Antioch
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.
To: Antioch
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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)
To: Antioch
I want to be reminded of terminally ill people when I sit down to eat my food.
Its already killed my appetite. No thanks.
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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))
To: Antioch
Amazing how many goals from the commie goals the NWO has now. Trying to make HIV a normal everyday thing.
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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!)
To: Antioch
What does the Health Dept say ?
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!
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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.)
To: EagleUSA
What next? Probably “Toronto chefs closes Canadas first HIV-positive restaurant”
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:21:50 PM PST
by
wattsgnu
To: BitWielder1
I don't think it will stay open for very long.Ohhhhh, the restaurant.
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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.)
To: Antioch
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:22:28 PM PST
by
Fido969
(In!)
To: Antioch
Next up - restaurants with anal syphilis and Hepatitis C positive themes!
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:24:16 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Antioch
Don’t order the Chili Dogs.
To: Antioch
I propose a whole row of similarly themed restaurants.
- HIV Positive restaurant
- The Leper Grill
- The Merry Plague
- Tuberculosis Dinner Theater
- Measles Pizza
- Flu Soup Kitchen
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posted on
11/08/2017 1:25:08 PM PST
by
DannyTN
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