exNYC Mayor Koch 'evil' and wonders: 'Is he trying to make up to us?'

1st par BY GREG HERNANDEZ
End part, Adam Gonzalez

Ed Koch was mayor of New York City from 1978-89, a period of time during which the AIDS epidemic broke out.

It's a crisis that many have said Koch essentially ignored during his time in office.

He now writes movie reviews and this weekturned his focus on the AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague. It is the story of two coalitions - ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) - whose activism and innovation is credited with playing a

 crucial role in HIV-AIDS going from a death sentence to a manageable condition with the help of certain drugs.

Koch describes the film as 'superb' in his review and suggests that key ACT UP members including Larry Kramer should receive the highest national award in the US for a civilian.

'I don't know if these individuals were ever honored by the White House for what they did in fighting government and powerful corporations,' Koch writes. 'If not, I urge President Obama to do so by presenting them and other leaders recognized by Act Up with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.'

Koch lamented that only 10 people were in the audience when he saw the movie and added: 'I urge our Chancellor of Education to show the documentary in our public schools. It would teach children a lot of lessons, the chief one being the community can, working together, speak truth to power and win.'

Kramer, who wrote the Tony Award winning play The Normal Heart, is anything but pleased to be getting praise from Koch.

'What is this evil man up to as he approaches his death?' Kramer writes of the 87-year-old Koch. 'Is he trying to make up to us? National Medals of Freedom from the White House! Would these provide a big enough enema to clean out his rotten insides?'

'We must never forget that this man was an active participant in helping us to die, in murdering us,' Kramer adds. 'Call it what you will, that is what Edward Koch was, a murderer of his very own people. There is no way to avoid knowing that now. The facts have long since been there staring us in the face. If we don't see them, then we are as complicit as he.'

Peter Staley, one of the other people Koch recommends for a medal, reacted this way: 'Does he really think plugging a White House medal for us is going to buy him forgiveness, or change our political views? I'm glad he saw the film, and gave it a positive review, but it was missing two words: 'I'm sorry.' Not to me. Not to Larry. But to the thousands lost, and all who still mourn them.'

Koch, a life-long bachelor, has steadfastly refused to discuss his sexuality amid widespread speculation that he is gay. Kramer lampoons Koch in The Normal Heart in which an AIDS activist laments that the only way to get the mayor's attention is to 'hire a hunky hustler and send him up to Gracie Mansion with our plea tattooed on his cock.’

adamfoxie*   

When the AIDS bombed exploded in NYC back in the early-mid 80’s, Koch was then the mayor. A man who had made lots of promises to the then gay community. He was the first mayor to walk down the gay pride on 5th Avenue. Everyone knew he was gay and he had a nephew  that was also gay. Gay people did not want to put him down in anyway because he was the first mayor who openly look for the gay vote, which without it was very doubtful he could win. 

Just like the gay community that was alive on the times of Reagan, we can’t stand Reagan and we Can’t stand Koch because many died due to rheir inactions, in Koch case his misguided actions ( sometimes I wonder that he wanted to come down hard on gays to protect his own sexuality) of him never moving a muscled, never pronounced its name until straight people starting dying of AIDS. With Koch he went into a crusade against everything that was gay. Bars, hotels, health clubs;  Unless they were like the NY Racket club…Up trending in money and connections, serving the wall St., crowd.  There was no sex there,,,ha!!!!  He made the city in genral be afraids of people with AIDS.  I put him in the same stop as Reagan.  If he thinks that that because his dick doesn ’t work  now, he is going to get even a ‘hello’ then he is as wrong now as he was in the years that he was in charge of a city dying.  He could have made it better!  He never saved a human being with his tactics, but how many died with teeth clinching in infinite hate of the so called the 'greatest city' medical services city that didn’t even recognize their disease that was killing them in groves.

Go to hell Koch!!  Which according to my believes,  hell is here on earth.  So... you are probably in there already. Enjoy the ride ‘ there is got more to come for you and the other closet case Alfonse“D’amato”

I got no hate for these type of individuals, but I know I express the feeling of those that went through that hell of a time. No need to keep hatred because time always takes care of dirt and converts it into something that can’t hurt no more.

 Adam Gonzalez for adamfoxie*