AIDSer

Noun

AIDSer (plural AIDSers)

1. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) A person suffering from AIDS.
   • My nominee for Majority Renegade of the Year? AIDSer Rock Hudson, who played a macho playboy on Dynasty knowing full well he was a victim of the homo plague. Not a nice man.1985, Instauration, volume 11, page 2
   • This is most notably the case when the surviving writer is also an AIDSer (also surviving a dying) or is so closely bonded with the one who has died as to deny the difference in their identities (as, for example, in Monette's Borrowed Time).2004, Ross Chambers, “Death at the Door”, in Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 44