This memoir is of course to my dearly departed lovers, friends, and activists who fought harrowing battles in their short lives. Of lot of fine young men and great minds do not survive this memoir; except in my heart.
"Life's a Bitch: Then you Die" - Peter Odejans, 1964-1989
"Those who wore condoms with me are still negative." Ron Kelly (1963 - 1995)
"I Iove you...I hate you, I don't know what to do with you in my head" - Singer Songwriter Jim Currie (1966-1996)
"I have to say: I've had a lot of support" - Brad Neil 1966- Feb 5th, 2000
"No more drugs into bodies; over my dead body" - the late ACT Up San Fransico AIDS activist Michael Belafonte (1963 - 2004)
"I'm not pretending to have all the answers. I just know that I have a lot of questions". Christine Maggiore - (1956 - 2008)
"He was a gangster. He infected me... Karma" - Hiroshi Ueno, AIDS Survivor; reported killed in 2011 Tohoku tsunami after he moved back to family from Tokyo.
"I had a choice between transition meds and HIV meds; I chose to live as a woman inside myself" - Gabrielle (1963 - 2014)
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HIV-PTSD: A memoir
Non-FictionAs a community journalist in the 1990s I spent years researching if there was a way to rethink AIDS as the plague was ripping through the bodies of my dear friends and lovers. I jumped into a harrowing world of bravery, protest, denial, and tragic d...
