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DAVE S

I LOST MY HUSBAND ANDREW AND MANY FRIENDS TO HIV. I AM A BIT AFRAID, BUT MY DOCTOR IN VEGAS IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.

February 8, 2016

mike

Thank you sir, great article. Sometimes it seems like a bittersweet victory. I am 61 yr old, hiv poz for 6 yrs, it seems like every sunday all my friends that didn't make comes to mind. Sunday was the the day everybody got together, great music, dancing all night, great beer bust. Now that HIV is more manageable than diabetes, according to my doctor, I wish it had came sooner for so many dear friends. It's hard enough growing older in this youth-based society, but to lose all your friends that you could have taken this journey with is unbearable some days. I will never forget them, since I wish many a day I could pick up the phone all call them. The young gay males don't realize what a gift that was given to them, all because the brave men of the act up movement. You would have had to be alive in the '80s to understand how tuff it was. To all my brothers that have gone before me--rest in peace; I will never forget you.

January 10, 2016

DAVE S

I LOST BOTH MY HUSBANDS TO H.I.V. :( MY LAST BLOODWORK CAME OUT GREAT.

December 6, 2015

Curt Freeman

I, too, have been surviving this for over three decades. I am the last of my friends to still be kicking. Thank you for writing this.

December 5, 2015

Frank Green

I can understand what you mean. I've been forgotten by my family. I don't want to be forgotten as if my life never mattered or I even existed. I'm hoping and praying that a few people will remember me so I'm not forgotten.

December 4, 2015

Ernesto Masis

Thanks for this article... Coming from Costa Rica, the attitude is of denial and shame. So many of my friends died back in the '80s and '90s while their circumstances and cause of death remained in the darkness, they have been forgotten... The same as you, I feel lucky enough to have survived and I feel compelled to remember them! warm regards! E

December 4, 2015

Bruce Ward

Thank you all for your kind words. Keep bearing witness and keep the memory of those friends and that time alive. :)

December 3, 2015

Bruce Ward

Thank you, Bobby. Yes, of course you may copy this blog for your website. I'd be honored. Just be sure to forward me the lnk. :) I will send you a note to your email address. I am looking for the original photo. I will send it once I find it in the next day or so.

December 3, 2015