Today is World AIDS Day. I’ve prepared an extra podcast that describes why and how we need to get real about sex. The message of what we think of as the “AIDS crisis” is not “use condoms” — it’s have whole relationships. I don’t define that as monogamous marriage until death — I define it as being real, having the conversation and acting with compassion for yourself and the people you care about. AIDS is not a moral issue; it’s a human issue. The full podcast is here.
Here is an article from four years back on World AIDS Day — an oldie but a goodie: Pass the 7-Up.
i can still see his face. Hardly knew him but he would greet anyone like a old friend. Open minded, open hearted, younger, smarter and he was taken as if by the wind. Still can’t believe it. Thank you, Eric, for a place to send a message to him and his legion. Do you hear me from your special place? Where the sky is yellow, it’s always warm and the grass grows tall? i think of you all as i watch the autumn leaves blowing away, weep for you as i shiver in the chill breeze.
“Pass the 7-Up” has always been one of my favorites. i printed it out a couple years ago & still have it in my files. can’t wait for time to listen to the podcast!
Here we go again – On world Aids Day – John Boener has decided to become a curator
and edit/ censor museum exhibits…..
Please see the links below on what has happened regarding this wonderful exhibit.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/us_representative_john_boehner.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/11/05/ST2010110502641.html?sid=ST2010110502641
“Now the NPG, and the Smithsonian Institution it is part of, look set to come off as cowards. Tuesday, after a few hours of pressure from the Catholic League and various conservatives, it decided to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz, a gay artist who died from AIDS-related illness in 1992. As part of “Hide/Seek,” the gallery was showing a four-minute excerpt from a 1987 piece titled “A Fire in My Belly,” made in honor of Peter Hujar, an artist-colleague and lover of Wojnarowicz who had died of AIDS complications in 1987. And for 11 seconds of that meandering, stream-of-consciousness work (the full version is 30 minutes long) a crucifix appears onscreen with ants crawling on it”
David Wojnarowicz was a very brave artist, whose works in the late 1980’s provoked
funding cuts and censorship. It is astounding on this day which is so important to the
Arts Community that this has happened. A bell warning us to what is more to come – again …….