A couple of weeks ago, my best friend who is HIV positive and has been since 1994, let me know that the medical cocktail he had been taking was no longer working. His viral load had gone from undetectable to unacceptable levels. He has been feeling tired of late and he has had to deal […]
Listening to the news, reading the blogs and listening to “professional Christians talk today I was left with some questions. When did the church quite being “followers of Christ” and become the zealots of “power and control”? When did we forget the main teaching of Jesus the Christ was to call people back into relationship
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I was sitting here this afternoon thinking I should write something for the end of the year. Of course that is what everybody is doing. Looking back over all the stuff that happened during 2007. The year 2007 will be reviewed in print, in video and radio till we are just sick of it. There
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Just when I think things cannot get worse…the 2 stories come across my desk. Now mind you over the last couple of months there have been more then our fair share of really bad things happening to our community, but these two set up tonight’s soapbox. “Gay teen couple made to sit apart on bus
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My coming out days was lived out in Chicago, Illinois (1965-1982). I also came out prior to HIV/AIDS being part of our everyday lives. The gay community in Chicago during my time there was party central but also a close nit community. Over the years I developed close friendships with a group of people that
Get a cup of coffee or some hot chocolate and get comfortable…this is a little longer then usual. You know it was bad enough that I had not even got Thanksgiving fully into my mind, had not gone through my annual cry of, “how much weight will I gain this year?” When I started receiving
I got a call today from one of my friends that I have not seen for a long time. Stacy who is a very conservative Christian was concerned about my state of mind. She has never liked the fact I was gay and has spent the last 30 years or so praying God would turn
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Today is a day of mourning. It is not a day that is on the national calendar. In fact with the exception of a small percentage of people in this country this day of mourning will pass completely unnoticed. Those who remember on this day will find themselves swinging between tears of grief and deep
I now really understand “writer’s cramp” or writer’s block. I am sure some of you have noticed this blog has been pretty dry over the last couple of weeks. It is not like there is not plenty for me to write about, bitch about or for that matter celebrate. Yet, according to one of my
Homophobia: Function: noun Date: 1969: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary) Interesting how this irrational fear of the religious zealots of the world becomes their strongest weapon against our friends and us. The religious zealots of the world are so “fearful” of homosexuals or anyone for that
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