@DrNeilStone All these fetid slavering bottom-feeding AIDS Truthers in the replies obscure the lived reality of gay men from 1981-1996. AZT was credited with giving people with HIV a longer life - anecdotally, 6 to 24 months - but it didn't stop them from dying. 1/ @DrNeilStone At the very beginning of AZT, some - again, anecdotally - may have been adversely affected by toxicity caused by megadoses of the only drug we had for years. Quack remedies circulated among us on mimeograph - inject yourself with hydrogen peroxide! Kombucha tea! Echinacea! 2/

@whiplash3456 Ran across your account and was struck by your determination to open your mind and heart. As a lifelong saved Christian I hope that as you go forward the Spirit will deepen and enrich your understanding of God's grace. 1/ @whiplash3456 This fandom is filled with children of God who are deeply frightened - terrified, to be honest - by the actions of our government and the darkness in our culture that has trained its sights on us, has rolled back years of progress for our community in a matter of months - 2/

@PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver After 38 years in leather on Folsom Street and across the country, 37 years as the 2nd-earliest Pup in Pup Play, "oldguardleatherdog" atop my socials, trained by legends &c &c, let me offer you this: 1/ @PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver ANYONE who tells you that you're not good enough, your clothes/gear/look/body/race/gender/attitude isn't up to standard, you're ignorant or stupid, you're not conforming to our dress code, age range, class/wealth status, or any variation of "you're doing it wrong!" - 2/

@Stopworkplacebu This is what happened to me 14 years ago as a high-level IT engineer freshly hired full time at a defense contractor outside of DC on a massive project for a federal agency that brought in the top people from Microsoft and the US government. Worked in a "war room" where about 1/ @Stopworkplacebu two dozen of us were thrown together in a series of low-slung desks with minimal dividers, like an eighth grade cafeteria. First day I walked in there, the 23-year-old project lead from the government side saw me, first words out of his mouth "get out of here, we don't need 2/

Was just on Reddit, and in the San Francisco sub -always a fight to watch or join- I saw a post titled, "It was a pleasure, San Francisco." Every so often, someone who's visited for posts a thank you note with a promise to return soon, and I gotta tell ya, I damn near cried. 1/ I came here for a 2 week vacation 37 years ago and ever since, except for a break in service to do the New York thing (wise) and get gay married in Vermont and Mass. (unwise), this city has been my home and I love it with my whole heart. That reddit sub tor me id like a boxing 2/