How to Survive a Plague the Mayor and the NY Times
This movie opened last summer, but with AIDS day Coming I think we should keep it alive to teach a generation and more how this plague started, who helped the sick and who helped the plague. Many on both sides but there are some names that are still alive today. This should teach us not just how started but how the community got together, taught the world how to die and then how to start a cure and start the slow down, which by the times there were no meds,so many had died so ‘fast’ that it seemed surreal. Then through the years the ones that had gotten infected started dying, young and old, black, white, yellow or brown. One day here, next day in the hospital next week at the funeral home. (as long as they did not know it was AIDS or they would not do the funeral). No more hugging or kissing friends when you went to their homes for dinner or bump to them at the supermarket. The mosquitoes were carrying it, the cat could kill you. You wouldn’t loose your apartment or your job because you were dead before they never saw you again.
I stayed with my partner for about 9 years, even though he cheated on me by the third month into the relationship or so. Iam not a forgiving person, but I kept the relationship together because of HIV and being scared of getting it. I figured my chances were better with a cheating partner than being single and knowing that sex it was not something I was going to give up. If I had to die for it. Only a piece of my life but I felt that was a very good piece of my life.
Nothing made sense in those times. Some people somehow put out it of their minds and went on like the emperor was not naked…..or that it was depending on your likes.Others ike my friend Ian would jump naked into the Hudson River, Found a few weeks latter under the GW Bridge.
I stayed with my partner for about 9 years, even though he cheated on me by the third month into the relationship or so. Iam not a forgiving person, but I kept the relationship together because of HIV and being scared of getting it. I figured my chances were better with a cheating partner than being single and knowing that sex it was not something I was going to give up. If I had to die for it. Only a piece of my life but I felt that was a very good piece of my life.
Nothing made sense in those times. Some people somehow put out it of their minds and went on like the emperor was not naked…..or that it was depending on your likes.Others ike my friend Ian would jump naked into the Hudson River, Found a few weeks latter under the GW Bridge.
Below I decided to post some of the comments of people that saw the movie. I got the list from Poz.com ( Below on this site you have 24 hr headlines from Poz and a single click will get you there.
There is also a widget we inserted that gives an address of where you can get tested free in the whole USA.
You also have your local pharmacy which should be carrying the home test. I will remind the reader that according to the medial community and the government, there are no HIV negative individuals.
This is just a phrase that many hide behind it. There is HIV positive and there is undiagnosed. If you think about it would make sense to you. For someone to be truly negative it would have to be someone who never had sex, but you would never know and in medicine no one goes by what people say but what the test indicates at that particular time of the test.
This is just a phrase that many hide behind it. There is HIV positive and there is undiagnosed. If you think about it would make sense to you. For someone to be truly negative it would have to be someone who never had sex, but you would never know and in medicine no one goes by what people say but what the test indicates at that particular time of the test.
Below is the trailer. I also included below a link from this site last time this topic came up.
This is a tough subject for many, thank you for being here and reading this comments.
AdamGonzalez for adamfoxie*blog
What is this evil man up to as he approaches his death? 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. 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.
Larry Kramer
And how does Christine Quinn, who pumps her fists in the air at every gay event in town (while betraying the community behind the scenes) hold Koch accountable for being an AIDS criminal? She forces the NYC Council to rename the Queensboro Bridge after him -- in exchange for his endorsement for her Mayoral candidacy. Koch and Quinn deserve each other; they are both destructive forces in NYC.
ED:
I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK.
Your revisionist history will not save your soul from what you did *( AND DID NOT DO).
My GOD have mercy on your soul, for we WILL NOT forget.
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.
What do you expect from a man who abandoned his lover and left him to die alone?
oh...so it was a San Francisco plague. No wonder you excuse yourself from your inaction in NYC. The film is powerful, but when we 'spoke truth to power' we only won because we were willing to risk having you unleash police beatings and arrests on us.
Apologies do not come from the mouths of ignorant men. Apologies come from men of knowledge, who have learned from their actions, and are willing and able to see the miss steps in their past.
Ed Koch, blindly ignorant and always looking the other way.
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L. Robert Westeen
L. Robert Westeen
I would appreciate some of the commentators providing some specifics about their point against Ed Koch.
Nice to see Larry Kramer remaining a bitter old queen to the end.
I fully agree with the comments made above by Larry Kramer, Peter Staley, and Donny Moss. Koch was mayor of New York from 1978 through 1989. A horrific number of New Yorkers died of AIDS during that time. As is documented in THE NORMAL HEART--which I first saw at the Public Theater in 1985--some of the blood of those New Yorkers who died, some of them friends of mine--is on Ed Koch's hands. Of course he is correct that leaders of ACT UP should be honored by the White House. But Koch's statement is hypocrisy at its absolute highest.
If you want to know the specifics of Ed Koch's machinations, get the documentary Outrage. Do Ask. Do Tell. by Kirby Dick.
Why are we bothering even talking about this man.
He's got a foot on his grave and he other in his mouth.
He's got a foot on his grave and he other in his mouth.
Having just seen Plague, I find Koch's unreflective review simply astonishing. Plus he spends a lot of it cribbing from the New York Times. For once, Larry Kramer is not harsh enough!
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