Choose the Bear Podcast: Love, Stigma, and the Law with Robert Suttle: On HIV Criminalization and Life After Injustice

What happens when outdated laws and stigma collide with your most personal truths?

Pictured: Half-body headshot of Robert Suttle

In this compelling episode of Choose the Bear, I share my lived experience of an HIV prosecution under Louisiana’s HIV-specific criminal law, and how that conviction shaped my journey through dating, intimacy, and identity as a gay Black man in the South.

We dive into the realities of building a full life after incarceration, examine how HIV laws perpetuate injustice, and explore why, for some, living single can be a radical act of freedom.

Listen now for the conversation on resilience, truth-telling, and ending HIV criminalization.

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