Pray for the dead-Fight like Hell for the living

[thirteenrocks]

Angels in America.

Fitting for today. The crisis that brought homosexuality to the media playing field, and science to the master test. ONce thought as only affecting gay men in bath-houses, it now effect everyone. The disease doesn't judge. It doesn't care.

Today we remeber: Pedro Zamora, Michael Callen, Keith Haring

Today we remember: Will and steve, Doug, and those who have gone before and those that will go after

Today we remember those still living with the disease. Not dying. Still living.

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated, and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

Comments

[oldhalloween.livejournal.com]

I cheer for those who still live with HIV. My friend J has now for 15 years. He was so sure he was going to die he had a hard time figuring out how to live. Thank the stars for those of us who were not practicing safe sex religiously in the 80s that we are still here! As for everyone lost...that is such a fresh wound to me but so unimaginable to the young. Education, Education, Education!

[thirteenrocks.livejournal.com]

WOW 15 years, that is amazing.

I've had a few scares of HIV infection from my wild and crazy days, and it is always a big deal going to get tested, but I do, and have stayed negative, and have practiced safe sex.

In the grand skeme of things, i'm pretty young and still remember back to the days of NO universal precautions, and when AIDS wasn't even a thought, nor a disease. My have times changed. Makes me feel OLD

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That is so beautifully said.
Hugs, Jon

[thirteenrocks.livejournal.com]

Danke!