November 2009 - My Journey with AIDS

Tomorrow is World AIDS Day

Tomorrow, December 1, is World AIDS Day. Let us remember that HIV/AIDS remains an issue the world over 364 other days of the year. Promising treatments have extended the survival of people in the wealthiest nations of the world but, where available, are...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 7:19 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, AIDS and HIV, politics, human rights, social justice, Planet Earth has AIDS, YouTube, World AIDS Day, Ev'ry Time We Say Good-bye, Annie Lennox

An HIV/AIDS health promotion poster a few years ago from the government of Québec

I’d bet Freddie Mercury would love this!

To mark the eighteenth anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death (reflections here from his mother) – really 18 years? – his old friends The Muppets have destroyed, all in good fun mind you, Bohemian Rhapsody. All in time for World AIDS...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 2:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, Muppets, creative arts, Freddie Mercury, World AIDS Day

Schlumbergera’s ability to lift spirits

From my holiday letter of 1998: My Christmas cactus hasn’t bloomed this year. Alas, I don’t think I can attribute that to the strange weather. I “pruned” it last summer and I think I must have killed it, ironic given the fact that the fellow, from whose...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 12:18 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, activism, AIDS and HIV, social justice, holiday letter, Warren Hartman, sexual orientation

Keith Olbermann: Sarah Palin’s Fans Turn On Her At Book Signing Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:23 AM by My journey with AIDS

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Sarah Palin has a tough week on the “Going Rogue” book tour Colbert, Letterman, Conan, Ferguson, Fallon & Kimmel have great fun at Sarah Palin’s expense (thanks to MSNBC’s Countdown for the montage). Afterwards, fans converge...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:19 AM by My journey with AIDS

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BringChange2Mind.org

More than a few tears of understanding, and being understood, came to my eyes tonight as I watched NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams featured a report on an initiative of Glenn Close called Bring Change 2 mind. Ms. Close and her sister Jessie, who is bipolar...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 5:37 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, Jessie Close, YouTube, mental health, bipolar, Glenn Close, bipolar II, stigma

Unelected Mike Duffy’s shameful disrespect for NDP’s elected MP Peter Stoffer

London-area Liberal MP Glen Pearson rightly calls out Mike Duffy in his blog for Duff’s disrespectful and mean-spirited views on NDP Member of Parliament Peter Stoffer. I say shame on you Duff you flabby, blabby embarrassing symbol of everything...

Published Sat, Nov 07 2009 2:31 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: media, politics, Peter Stoffer, Glen Pearson, Conservative Senator, Mike Duffy

November 2009 - My Journey with AIDS

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