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“If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.”
“The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history.”
“The disaster, as Dad and others saw it, was the emerging AIDS crisis and the cultural attacks instigated by conservative against gay men and women in the early 1980s. It was found in the cruel indi...”
“Of course, its now obvious why he was so angry that day. People dont move into hospice to live but to die. And that half an egg sandwich I ended up making himthat sandwich was the last meal he ate ...”
“My days of torment were over, but the damage was done. I conflated the bullies and my bathroom accidents with an inchoate sense that something was wrong with me. I broadcast my sense of otherness t...”
“In late 1985, the Reagan White House blocked the use of CDC money for education, leaving the US behind other Western nations in telling its citizens how to avoid contracting the virus. Many America...”
“Of course, it’s now obvious why he was so angry that day. People don’t move into hospice to live but to die. And that half an egg sandwich I ended up making him–that sandwich was the last meal he a...”