So, today the United States is marking 20 years of AIDS. That is certainly not the correct date, but 20 years ago today, on June 5, 1981, the CDC first recognized a strange phenomenon occuring in five gay men written about in health journals…
I lost my friend Dickie to AIDS a year and a half ago. I hope and pray that my friends with HIV/AIDS live to see a cure, and mourn the hundreds of thousands who did not.