- Tagged
- (and that's the closest thing to a happy ending his generation can expect)
- (the other member of that couple is still alive and now lives in seattle and has a new partner)
- and a couple he used to talk about all the time and wanted to take me to visit
- because one of them died
- but in retrospect it was happening around me even in the tiny little arts community in the tiny little city we lived near
- he suddenly stopped talking about
- I didn't understand at the time. I was a kid for all this. or not even born.
- I remember my father going to funerals for his high school friend who died at 43 or so
- lest we forget
- my parents are straight but had many close friends who are not
- or were not. because they're dead.
- queer history
- this was what I grew up in and didn't understand
- world aids day
Published
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 