FISH IN THE SEA
The Subdivision | The Gay Domestic | Digital Photocollage | 2026
Sociologists call it cohort loss.
For gay men born between 1960 and 1964, this meant the loss of an entire peer group — friends, lovers, men one might have built a life with — to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. At its peak, between 1987 and 1996, an estimated one in nine gay men had been diagnosed with AIDS. One in fifteen had died.
Those who survived are still here. Still aging. Some still looking for love inside a demographic that was decimated by nature and neglect.
They used to say there were plenty of fish in the sea. For this generation, a harder truth is endured.
The Subdivision is still counting. Jupiter 3 never stopped. — Behan
