My Journey with AIDS

MacPherson tartans

If I had my druthers, I think I’d go for the “hunting” version of my maternal tartan in a kilt. MacPherson tartan MacPherson – hunting MacPherson – dress Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 20 2012 8:09 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, genealogy, Chaplin, Sangster, MacPherson, Glengarry (Upper Canada), McGinnis, MacDonald

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

December 6th

While we honour the memory of all victims of male violence against women everywhere, before and since, Canadians particularly recall today – on this our National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women – the names of the victims...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2012 5:34 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, activism, gender, Dec. 6, white ribbon, men's violence against women, Ecole Polytechnique, misogyny

A month since I last blogged…that feels about right!

Pictures from in and around Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada in late December Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 06 2013 8:51 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth, architecture

Coming out as the end of a beginning

This morning on CTV’s Canada AM Kevin Newman, of Question Period fame, was promoting a very important segment on this weekend’s W5 program (Saturday at 7 p.m. ET) and, in the accompanying online article he wrote, “Coming out is toward...

Published Thu, Jan 24 2013 7:56 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, YouTube, mental health, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, Kevin Newman, CTV Television Network, Question Period

“A Winter Night” by Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)

When biting Boreas, fell and doure, Sharp shivers thro’ the leafless bow’r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv’d glow’r, Far south the lift, Dim-dark’ning thro’ the flaky show’r, Or whirling drift: Ae night the storm...

Published Thu, Jan 24 2013 5:33 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: poetry

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

Early morning, April 25, 2007

A prompt this week to write about something in a health-care context brought out this story which, despite having been told over and over in my head, had heretofore not made it down in writing. It wasn’t quite 5:30 am and Janice was already waiting for...

Published Thu, Mar 14 2013 4:55 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, grief, autobiography, AIDS and HIV, Perth, health-care, sexual orientation, Craig Chaplin, Montréal

Lunch with Vito Russo

Disclaimer: My memories have been assisted by Google and a piece of paper, 8-1/2″ x 11″ divided in half, on which is written the following: After signing up for The Movie Network again recently, I came upon the film “Vito: A Man For All Seasons...

Published Sun, Apr 07 2013 2:18 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, AIDS and HIV, social justice, sexual orientation, politics - USA, homophobia, biography/autobiography, Ronald Reagan, Celluloid Closet, Vito Russo, Gay-Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

Review (and a personal retrospective) – Behind the Candelabra

With only the most scant help from Google I have been trying to remember more about my personal, professional meeting with Liberace (“Please, call me Lee.”) It was some time in the mid-1980s, while I was working at a St. Catharines, Ontario radio station...

Published Mon, May 27 2013 2:03 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, AIDS and HIV, stigma, sexual orientation, homosexuality, social conservatives, homophobia, biography/autobiography, Liberace, Behind the Candelabra

Post #1031: My latest ‘Aha!’ moment

I’m very close to finishing the book Survivor – Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik and some two-thirds of the way through I was jolted by this passage: We could have run, could have made it, could have reached...

Published Thu, Aug 22 2013 11:56 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: childhood trauma, mental health, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), sexual abuse, biography/autobiography, Sam Pivnik, Auschwitz concentration camp, Primo Levi, Holocaust

Filed under: Stephen Lewis, activism, AIDS and HIV

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