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World Aids Day, support research
Dec. 1st, 2005 10:14 amToday is World AIDS Day. Please take a moment to remember those living with the disease, as well as those who have died from it.
Do your part in helping to stop AIDS. Go to this site, click on any place in the map (which is symbolic of lighting a candle), and $1 will be donated to AIDS research. Please copy/paste and pass this along. http://www.light2unite.com/
I went and lit on candle in each continent...as the person I light for had been to them all. Tom, brilliant and gentle man, gourmand, life partner to Ian, and one of the first discovered cases in CA. He was doing so well, and got a parasite on his visit to Australia. It was a not so slow and painful turn downhill after that. When the disease hit him, he had been running for public office in his now home state and had already been honored in Denver where he started countless activist events speaking up for gay rights. I learned more about this amazing man at his funeral than he ever spoke of in life. He was quiet and unshowy. He was a GREAT man. And I do miss him. Not just on days like today, but more often. In quiet moments. When people mention Harry Winston's, when I see a cheese and fruit plate offered for dessert, when I see a well formed man in Renaissance Garb (such as a leslie), it strikes me. Much love to you Tom.
I lit one more candle again in NA, for David S. He and I went to school together at Rutgers. He and I played a bit of George Bernard Shaw. He was tough to get to know, but he was funny and cynical...like Oscar Wilde himself. I heard about his death from a classmate. His talent will be missed.
They let you light as many as you want. Go ahead and help others. It only takes a moment. Let's break this cycle.
Do your part in helping to stop AIDS. Go to this site, click on any place in the map (which is symbolic of lighting a candle), and $1 will be donated to AIDS research. Please copy/paste and pass this along. http://www.light2unite.com/
I went and lit on candle in each continent...as the person I light for had been to them all. Tom, brilliant and gentle man, gourmand, life partner to Ian, and one of the first discovered cases in CA. He was doing so well, and got a parasite on his visit to Australia. It was a not so slow and painful turn downhill after that. When the disease hit him, he had been running for public office in his now home state and had already been honored in Denver where he started countless activist events speaking up for gay rights. I learned more about this amazing man at his funeral than he ever spoke of in life. He was quiet and unshowy. He was a GREAT man. And I do miss him. Not just on days like today, but more often. In quiet moments. When people mention Harry Winston's, when I see a cheese and fruit plate offered for dessert, when I see a well formed man in Renaissance Garb (such as a leslie), it strikes me. Much love to you Tom.
I lit one more candle again in NA, for David S. He and I went to school together at Rutgers. He and I played a bit of George Bernard Shaw. He was tough to get to know, but he was funny and cynical...like Oscar Wilde himself. I heard about his death from a classmate. His talent will be missed.
They let you light as many as you want. Go ahead and help others. It only takes a moment. Let's break this cycle.