Why I Write
On Friday, March 6, 2016, in response to First Lady Nancy Reagan’s death, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalled “how difficult it was to talk...
Sherri Lewis
Turn Up the Radio
AIDS interrupted by dreams—but I've learned to reclaim them
by Sherri Lewis
The best time in my life was being a signed recording...
Survivor Responsibility
As a gay man who has lived with HIV for thirty-five years, I have not felt survivor guilt. I have, however, felt survivor responsibility.
I...
Left for Dead
I died three decades ago. In my early twenties. At the apex of the AIDS crisis in America in the 1980s. I’m long gone...
A Fight for Community Connections
One week after graduating high school, I escaped my small Ohio town for college. Upon coming out, my family rejected me, which fired up...
Homeless in San Francisco
Throughout the thirty-one years that I have dealt with HIV/AIDS I have faced many serious challenges, but none so daunting as the one I...
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
The disorientation of survival calls for us to create new ways to navigate
by Mark Olmsted
I came out very early, at sixteen, in...
Set Asides
Set asides: units of affordable housing required developers to set aside twenty-five percent of all new housing for low to moderate income families. When...
Dear Class of ’68
Dear Class of '68
Why I'm not attending my 50th reunion
by Lewis Nightingale
Dear Jim,
Thanks for asking why I’m not coming to our 50th Reunion this...
Choose Light
I have had the great fortune, for the last two years, of living next to one of the most beautiful parks in San Francisco....
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After Being Diagnosed with HIV, Cover Girl Rebekka Armstrong Became Self-Destructive but Soon Discovered How to Turn Panic Into Passion
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