Postdoctoral Fellow @AFASWashU | Ph.D. @BerkeleyAfroAm | Black popular culture and queerness in Latin America and the Lusophone world | translator, chef 🌈
Jun 9, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
My uncle, Daniel, died of AIDS in 1984, three years before I was born. A few years ago, I was blessed to meet Nick, a close friend of his who still lives in SF. He had a wall of 8x10 photos of deceased friends in his home and he gave me the ones he had of Dan in a neat folder.
Nick and Dan met working for Delta at SFO. Nick was a flight attendant for many years and Dan worked at the counter for a bit before changing jobs, always an aspiring singer and performer (see the Burt Reynolds headshot). Dan liked to go out and Nick tagged along as the older gay