Posts Tagged ‘A Place Like This’
Winning a car on The Price is Right in 1980
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
I was a 19 year old gay man on vacation with my boyfriend Charlie (that’s him in the audience in the matching outfit), and Bob Barker asks, “Do you have a girlfriend?” It’s 1980, people, so don’t expect me to have come screaming out of the closet on national television. The experience is used as a narrative device in the prologue of my book “A Place Like This,” about my life in 1980′s Los Angeles and the dawn of HIV/AIDS.
Tags: A Place Like This, gay
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Oprah Comes Calling
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In this episode of my ongoing video series, Oprah reaches out to touch… me! It leads to bittersweet memories of Louise Hay (the “Hayrides” of the 1980s in West Hollywood), and of my gay brother Dick and his partner’s struggle with AIDS. Also, I get an annual physical with Dr. David Morris.
Tags: A Place Like This, aids, drag, gratitude, hiv, Louise Hay, Oprah, physical, physician
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The premiere episode of “My Fabulous Disease”
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In September of 2008, my video series “My Fabulous Disease” debuted on the best HIV resource on the net, TheBody.com. Here is that episode, which introduces me as a gay man in recovery living with HIV/AIDS.
Tags: A Place Like This, aids, drag, gay, hiv, meth, physician, Sexuality
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