(February 10, 2017 at 5:11 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(February 9, 2017 at 7:42 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I really enjoyed shopping in a 'gay' business area in Philly some years ago. Didn't occur to me at the time I was financially supporting a form of segregation or apartheid.
And that pride march I was in back in '79, the route went by all the gay bars in Chicago I had ever heard of or been in. I suppose tying up traffic on the Magnificent Mile might have raised more awareness, but we still had 250,000 out and about.
Have you been to SF? They've got a bar called the White Swallow you might enjoy.
Oh and I remembered the guy on TV, it was Tony Brown and the program was called Tony Brown's Journal: http://www.tonybrownsjournal.com/meet-tony-brown
Quite a few of my friends from my college era wound up in Frisco. Curiously, for the most part they experienced a far lower mortality rate from HIV than my stay in the Midwest cohorts had.
That's not saying they haven't had their own challenges. A couple have dire issues with drug abuse, and one I'm aware of is into a scene even I find extreme and disturbing.
One was murdered too, but the circumstances are at best ambiguous as to the degree of culpability he has for his own demise. I wouldn't have done once what he did three times and expected to survive. That he got 3 bites at that particular apple is remarkable, medical science being able twice to save him borders on the miraculous.
As for my touring Frisco, I think seeing some of the AIDS memorials and places I am familiar with from Randy Shilts's book would be too much for me to take. A park bench with Bill Kraus's name on it, the building where Gary Walsh had his office, any reference to Bobbi Campbell, there would be hundreds of things altogether, that city would be filled with emotional landmines for me to an extent I can't see ever visiting.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
