The CDC gave six digits The CDC gave six digits to each of the infected to track without using names. Kimberly 242284, David 158093 One more digit and it could have been a phone number. But it wasn’t a phone number, it was a code, keeping confidentiality while exposing the most intimate of details. David …
The ghosts of what might have been forever haunt World AIDS Day, December 1. Most especially: an entire generation of gay men that were largely erased, their stories blunted. We muse about their stalled brilliance and moreover, the simple ordinary existence that was stolen from them. And from us. Poet Steven Reigns’ new book, A …
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A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns feels like a sacred book to me. I lived through the AIDS crisis and the disinformation and fear mongering that went along with it. This poetry collection chronicles the difficult story of a dentist, Dr. David Acer, who contracted HIV and continued to practice on patients during the …
It was ten years ago The wall was in a French bakery that provided “banettes” to restaurants and hotels, yet close enough to its neighborhood to allow the local school children to exhibit their art work on that wall. As it happened I had just moved in an apartment with a balcony looking over four …
I believe everyone has a purpose. The world is such a big place, and to say that there’s nothing out there for you is, in my opinion, just wrong. There’s something out there for everyone–we just need to find it. Since I was young, all I have ever really had the chance to participate in …
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