From Walls to Spectrums
For years I have lived behind a wall. The wall is real, a boundary of my own making, but my conception of it changed...
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...
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...
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...
My HIV Turned 21
It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To was the theme for my day of diagnosis.
When I was first diagnosed February 20,...
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....
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...
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...
Second Acts: Bruce Ward
Hanging On
Clinging to a raft in the regatta of life
by Bruce Ward
Lazarus Syndrome” is one of the terms coined by psychologists and sociologists to...
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...
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Elizabeth, Larry & Diana
Three Heroes
Honoring Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Larry Kramer and Princess Di
by John Francis Leonard
When we recently lost that great man of letters and prominent activist,...
