Dec 4, 20191 min readBAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison, The First AIDS Ward (Part 1)PODCAST—EPISODE 10: Cliff Morrison arrived in San Francisco as a nurse in the late 1970s, as AIDS was about to erupt. In 1983, while...
Nov 11, 20196 min readThe Dead, The Living, and The InheritanceSTORY: Fall is a time of sad anniversaries for me. When I tested positive for HIV in the fall of 1988, it was hardly surprising. Many sex...
Jul 19, 20185 min readMarcusSTORY: 1989—I met Marcus Lutsky at Uncle Charlie’s Downtown Bar in NYC in the Spring of 1989. It was a Saturday night and I was on the...
Jun 9, 20182 min readA Tribute to Jackie YordanSTORY: Jackie Yordan was, according to many who knew him, an “incredible sweetheart and an amazing person… He was truly one of the...
Jun 8, 20181 min readMe and MichaelSTORY: A few pictures of Michael Dowell and me in the early-to-mid-90s. We lost Michael in 1995. This next shot is a self-portrait he...
Mar 11, 20182 min readHidden CostsSTORY: 1981-2017: If I had to select one photo from my archives which personifies the devastation wrought upon my generation by the AIDS...
Mar 11, 20182 min readEighties EnvySTORY: May 1983: From the moment the discovery of a “gay cancer” (GRID, or “gay-related immune deficiency”, later renamed AIDS) was...