As 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 death. I avoided testing for HIV until I was sure I could control the chaos n uncertainty; the harrowing thought of living w AIDS more than dying; and how I ultimately learned to let go and accept whatever fate would deal me. Somehow I came out physically unscathed, by HIV anyway, and "negative" (to date)... but not emotionally. Content Outline: 1. An Alternative Lifestyle 2. An Early Frost 3. Love God Hate Sin 4. SanFran on Oxygen 5. LGYT 6. Bathhouse Steam 7. Sun Goes Down on Ron Kelly 8. The Edge Coffeehouse 9. Neil Thing 10. Rethinking Denial 11. Angles Vancouver 12. Brad on the Beach 13. VMCs Naked Men 14. Doug Collins Causes AIDS 15. ActUp Blood Bath 16. Nanaimo News 17. I Love You...I Hate You 18. Psycho Power of Attorney 19. St Pauls Overnights 20. Beach Volleyball Crunch 21. King of Hearts 22. My Heart will go On 23. Yoyogi Park 24. Kimi Keiken Ueno 25. Tokyo AIDS Evangelist 26. Marck's Helmet 27. Confronting Christine 28. Early Onset Aging 29. Team Lloyd 30. Tyler's Teeth 31. Family Down Negative 32. Asexuality Anxiety 33. Blood Sugar's Dark Magic 34. Anti-pRep: My Doc's Red Book 35. COVID: AIDS Rides Again
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