“I am a gay. I became a homosexual when I was in SS1. Nobody introduced me to it. I just found myself having sexual feelings for people of the same sex. But I didn’t practise it then. I started practising it in 2013.
“It was from this that I got HIV virus, because nobody taught me about safe sex. Some of my sex partners may be having the virus too. But I stopped engaging in unprotected sex with my partners immediately I became aware of my status.”
Like his peers, Robinson said his parents were also not aware of his nature as a gay and his HIV status.
“I tested positive in 2015 but I started treatment a year later. I was 25 years old then. My parents are not aware of my status. I didn’t tell them because I don’t know how they would react to it. I was seeing horrible things the first day I took my anti-retroviral drug.”
He said he would only get married for the purpose of pleasing his parents. “I would want to get married in future because of family pressure and belief system. Otherwise, I would not want to get married. I want to be a surrogate father. Marriage is not what I want.”
