[jocon307]

I'm probably not posting this for the best reasons, although it is very interesting. I didn't even read the whole article.

But all I know is my beloved brother died of AIDS in 1995 and right now I'm feeling he just missed a cure. And it is making me very, very sad.

Yeah, my brother was a fagela, but please don't bash.

I just had to post this, and I'm sure the article is very interesting from a science/medical perspective.

Maybe I'll read the rest of it later.

[Chode]

a 100% preventable disease gets a billion dollars for R&D yet Hep-C? nothing... feh

[JRandomFreeper]

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Sorry for your loss.

/johnny

[2banana]

Seems like a lot of empty lives of people wondering what they are going to do when they are old (which they are on the cusp).

Wonder if they would have done anything different.

When Mr. Davis, 62, learned he had H.I.V. in the late 1980s and then watched a partner die, he said, “I partied harder. Took every drug in the world. I took all the money out of my 401(k) and spent it.” He quit his job, ended up homeless and dependent on the city’s H.I.V./AIDS Services Administration.

[doorgunner69]

But he has other health problems, more often seen in people 10 or 20 years older: kidney damage, diabetes, chronic fatigue, thyroid disease

How about his "gay" bowel syndrome? Such a splendid lifestyle this mental disorder enables..........

[WXRGina]

The column is a sad one.

I’m sorry for your loss of your dear brother.

[JPG]

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[cherry]

So sorry about your brother..my thoughts are not about anyone specific but just in general....

you know, the article cries out for martyrdom..

..I'm not in the mood......I've got arthritis seemingly in every joint of my body, including my hands...yet I need to keep working to pay the bills....and I'm nearly 60...

I feel the same way about these types of stories as I do about alcoholics seeking liver transplants at the taxpayer dime....where was the common sense when it was needed...

I have several members of my extended family that are gay...on bil has had several different partners, all have died, but I don't think from AIDS....one nephew is young and hopefully being very careful...

I also have a counsin in law dying of ALS...since her late 40's....not pretty....

I've understood that there was a whole mindset of HIV positive gay men "giving" HIV to others knowingly and many not HIV positive gay men "seeking" it......how twisted is that?...

its just difficult drumming up concern for these peoples' "middle age" problems....a lot of us have lived sensible lives, working,raising children, paying the tax man...when will get an article written about our trials and tribulations..

[AppyPappy]

My brother is going through the same thing.

[spacejunkie2001]

I’m very sorry to hear about your brother. I turned 18 in ‘78 and all my neighbors where I moved to were gay men. We started hanging out together and they were my friends and I loved them. They are almost all dead now. For several years.

The homosexual life is a sinful life and people living in it need to fall to their knees in submission to God, just like ALL of us need to for ALL of our sins. But it sure doesn’t mean we like to see them die and they need to hear the truth. Homosexuality, unlike any other sinful lifestyle, is applauded in society and those that say there’s hope; there’s a choice, are lambasted and destroyed. I truly feel for gays; they are trapped in a dark web.

[riri]

Interesting article.

[novemberslady]

no harshness here

Many people I love have died of aids. I say love, because you don't stop loving them just because they die.

I wish they lived long enough for the cure too.

[latina4dubya]

thank you for posting this... just recently i was wondering about the treatment of AIDS and how people are living with the disease now a days... specifically, i was wondering when treatment started prolonging lives to the extent that it now does...

[poobear]

I am very sorry luv for your loss. It could happen to ANY of us. So sorry. May your experience help fight for a cure. You are Loved. So was your beloved Brother.

poobear...

[Gay State Conservative]

I can find sympathy for *some* Americans with AIDS.Certain people overseas...in Africa,for example...are an entirely different matter to be discussed at another time.One class of Americans I can sympathize with are women who truly didn't know her husbands were "sleeping" with guys or that he was shooting drugs.I also have sympathy for those who contracted AIDS in the womb.OTOH,junkies,perverts or those who *knowingly* slept with junkie and perverts,hookers and customers of hookers...NO SYMPATHY!

Not a single bit.

[madmominct]

My beloved brother-in-law also died of AIDS in 1992. He got it in the very early years. I’m so glad they’ve got the drugs now to extend lives, but it is also sad what those people still have to live with, especially the depression and loneliness. You may not approve of the lifestyles that resulted in the HIV but you have to have compassion as a fellow human being and thus fellow sinner. Remembering that we’re all in need of God’s grace pretty much levels everything out.

[quilterdebbie]

Thank you for posting this article. I’m so sorry about your brother. It’s hard to lose those we love, no matter the reason.

[little jeremiah]

So did this Steve feller give up same sex sodomy or does he carry on with the “gay” life?

Rhetorical question, maybe the answer is in the (no doubt very lenghty) NYT article. I guess I could click the link.

[fwdude]

Suddenly the future seemed like this long, empty road going toward the horizon, and I felt like, what am I gonna do with my life now?

Why is it I don't wonder if anonymous bathroom sex isn't on his bucket list?

[fwdude]

I'm not going to bash anyone who contracts this disease who OWNS UP to the reason he contracts it. It's the in-your-face, unrepentant, blame-projecting activists I have absolute contempt for. I really hope the disease takes homos such as these quickly and painfully.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but these people are proud murderers.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sorry about your brother.