My Journey with AIDS

PM Harper reneges on HIV vaccine research

When Saturday’s Globe and Mail flops down on door-steps across the country Saturday, a story will be found of our government’s cynicism and disregard for Canada’s reputation on the world stage. (Finding such a report is not usually handed...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 7:48 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, health-care, politics, Planet Earth has AIDS, public health

Facebook | Share

{{This looks like a mjor breakthrough in the on-going untangling of HIV/AIDS.}} via Facebook | Share. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:17 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV

A major breakthrough in the still-mysterious (to me) web of HIV/AIDS research

I didn’t have the radio or television on Monday so I nearly missed this – what, to this layman anyway, has remained such a mystery since the early, crudest diagrams of the virus first appeared. I got it no later than 1989. It nearly killed...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:49 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, Planet Earth has AIDS, integrase

Self-forgiveness – even when it seems so unnecessary

While I would acknowledge there are probably exceptional circumstances I am generally of the restorative justice point of view, as described by Correctional Service of Canada. The holiday weekend news that Graham James – variously described as “hockey...

Published Sat, Apr 10 2010 2:35 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, personal journal, childhood trauma, spirituality, bipolar II, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, evangelicals, social conservatives, sexual abuse, Christianism

World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 1 – Excerpts from the Prologue of “Crooked Road Straight: The Awakening of AIDS Activist Linda Jordan” by Tina A. Brown

Each author in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. AIDS didn’t become important to me until somebody...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 9:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, stigma, World AIDS Day, faith, biography/autobiography

Ya had to know I’d have a true John Lennon story of my own, didn’tcha?

I just wouldn’t bet on it ever making it into The Complete History of Music. On the evening of December 8, 1980, a Monday, I had attended the regular weekly meeting of St. Catharines City Council in my capacity as a news reporter for a local radio station...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2010 10:06 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, autobiography

Perhaps my most difficult topic yet (for Tyler Clementi)

Let’s talk about suicide! The single-most read entry of this blog – ever – is seeing an up-tick in hits as the one year anniversary of this local tragedy looms large. Today, with the recovery of his body, social media are decrying the suicide, and...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 6:45 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: human rights, mental health, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, queer, Christianism, recovery, suicide

Sticks and Stones…

I’d imagine it must be painful for a parent to have to impart to their children those familiar words, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” I was certainly skeptical. Long before summoning the courage to come out to my parents...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 5:15 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, activism, social justice, YouTube, sexual orientation, gender, homosexuality, queer, social conservatives, Wear purple, Stop Homophobia, bullying

Perth’s former library inspired by stately bank building

The Perth Scientific and Literary Society, founded in 1906 in order to apply for a Carnegie Foundation grant, built a library in the Beaux Arts style a year later. It was a landmark public building until it was severely damaged, and its collection...

Published Tue, Nov 09 2010 12:21 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth, Toronto, architecture

AIDS is still here but so am I!

Submitted to Aless.ca today I find the anticipation, whatever the outcome, of World AIDS Day quietly overwhelming. “Not much,” I replied to a friend asking what plans I had last night. I might as well have had dental freezing in my brain,...

Published Sat, Dec 01 2012 6:12 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, sexual orientation, World AIDS Day, Craig Chaplin, homosexuality

World AIDS Day 2012 – Writing about AIDS

I’m re-directing you here to my friend Aless’s web site. Aless has graciously taken over a World AIDS Day project I started – and has even named it for me! Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 11:06 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, AIDS and HIV

Shaun Fryday, whose faith community emulates his personal hospitality, to be this year’s recipient of the Craig Chaplin Memorial Award

Rev Shaun Fryday has been selected by Montreal’s United Theological College to receive the award, established by my late brother, at the UTC Convocation on May 8th, 2013. Fittingly, the ceremonies will take place in Shaun’s congregation of Beaconsfield...

Published Sun, Feb 24 2013 12:11 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, spirituality, social justice, sexual orientation, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, United Church of Canada, Beaconsfield United Church, LGBTQ Youth Centre

DARE ME – and help raise funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundation

I realize it’s been many months since I have blogged. (You’re more likely to find me on Facebook or Twitter.) As my HIV has to compete with everything else that ails me, and those activities which bring me relaxed pleasure, it takes a special...

Published Sat, Mar 22 2014 7:53 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Stephen Lewis, activism, AIDS and HIV

Medical update: great news!

When I last checked in about my health I had received some upsetting, though not surprising, results after being off my HIV meds for a few months. Six weeks or so later, the results are in after being back on everything and my immune system has bounced...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 9:45 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, mental health, medical update, viral load, CD-4, type-II diabetes

As seen on Facebook (from others who, like me, remember 1981)

Open Letter to Pride Toronto from founders of Pride in 1981 As founding members of the Toronto *** and Gay Pride Day Committee, and people involved in organizing the first Pride event in Toronto at the end of June in 1981, we stand totally opposed to...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 6:00 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, politics, human rights, homosexuality, queer, Israel-Palestine

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives