In Memorium - 25 years of AIDS — Page 2

I started my job evaluating disability claims on June4th 1981 and the first report came out the next day. I saw the whole epidemic unfurl before my eyes,AIDS, ARC. I knew at least 15 of my coworkers that died, a half dozen classmates and saw many claimants as well.

A lot of progress has been made, I can't remember the last AIDs case that I've allowed.Can't rest though.

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Just think, the cure is right in front of us: Monogomy/Abstinence

what an a**hole of a first post......seems Rodney K is back

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Too many gone too soon.

My cousin Billy. He was a couple of years older than me. Back then, some funeral homes wouldn't even take a person who died from AIDS. There was one on 14th Street that did. No one from the family went to his wake except for me. During the daytime, many of his friends were there but at the evening viewing, I was the only one there. Just me and my dead cousin in a closed coffin. I sobbed like a baby. The next day, at the funeral, the family showed up. When I asked them why they did not come to the wake, they said that they were afraid that "the gays" would have turned the wake into some kind of circus. How sad for them, and for him.

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