For Gersh: 14 Years Is Not So Long Ago.

[bluedawg12]

This is the fourteenth anniversary

of my brother- in - laws death.

He died of AIDS related causes back when they weren’t handing out money and prizes to conservatives that wanted to see him dead.

Back when “it was only a gay disease.”

Back when...no one gave a damn.

Except, his family, who watched this handsome 38 year old man disappear into nothingness.

Back when, him, looking like a Greek God, could silence a room and take people’s breath away, Jesus, he was Paul Newman handsome, but that couldn’t stop the virus that took his last breath.


mrsbd and our family mourn him today.

They remember his partner, the blond haired, blue eyed, all American boy dentist, who died the year before and whose WASPY - shit family wouldn’t let Gersh go to their home to get his own belongings out, Lord, denial is an ugly word and so is hatred.

The Yortzite candle burns today, as it does every year at this time.

For Gersh:

Buffalo Bill 's
by E. E. Cummings


Buffalo Bill 's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat


Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death

[Zuiderelle]

1. ...

:hug:

[bluedawg12]

3. ...

:hug: :cry:

[wellstone dem]

2. It is clear that he was loved

blessings to your family, who loved him and his partner. Bless you.

[bluedawg12]

4. ...

:hug:

[Behind the Aegis]

5. ...

:hug:

[bluedawg12]

6. ...

:hug:

[racaulk]

7. Oh my gosh, bluedawg.

I don't know what to say, I'm just so sorry. :(

:hug:

[bluedawg12]

8. ...

:hug:

[mitchtv]

9. How sad

I know it still hurts/ I hurt too

[bluedawg12]

10. We all do that lived and lost in that era. If only...four more years

if he could have held on, or if Raygun had not pretended there was no AIDS and had not cut funding for research... just four years later, I recall hearing that the protocol for treatment had increased quality of life and longevity. That delay under the conservative regime cost many good lives.

That's why it burned me up when I saw Rick Warren give shrub a "PEACE" medal, for doltson's work on AIDS, the repugs and the selfrighteous wing were in power when the epidemic broke out and chose silence and denial and cut research funding. A lot of suffering ensued, thanks to them.

:hug: