“It hurts to know that I could be looked at as a criminal because of other peoples’ misconceptions,” Alex Robertson reflected while dragging on a cigarette.
The premiere screening at The Workers Art and Heritage Centre of the Hamilton film project Unlocking HIV challenged some of the stereotypes surrounding the virus and exposed flaws around attitudes to HIV.
The film follows a group of Hamiltonians living in the city with a manageable virus. Participants in the film reassured the audience that there’s not a community of criminals looking to infect their next victims and also…