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Tag Archives: AIDS
It Took Two Weeks
Within a couple of months of coming out in 1988, I took my first HIV test. It took two weeks to get the results at that time. Two weeks. They counseled you when they drew blood. And they counseled you … Continue reading
Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Today I’ve had one word going through my head: GEORGE! GEOOOOORRGE! It’s impossible to represent with letter and words and punctuation the raw emotion evoked when Elizabeth Taylor belched it from her gut in scene after scene of her Oscar winning … Continue reading
Acting Up at Sammy’s – from Sin Against the Race
The first piece I ever had published was an excerpt from Sin Against the Race that told the tale of some black gay folks attending their first ACT UP meeting. It was included in the anthology Sojourner: Black Gay Voices … Continue reading
Ptolemaic Logic
Ptolemy was an Egyptian-born Roman philosopher and scientist who lived around the First and Second centuries AD. He’s best known for the Ptolemaic System of the universe, an expansion of Aristotle’s view that the Earth laid at the center of … Continue reading
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