Do you see that little tyger (not a typo) in the bottom right hand corner? He is Troy. He is my (fluff)Friend. I pretty much registered on Facebook to play with (fluff). He normally lives at http://troy.fluff-friends.com. Today, however, if you click the link, you will see that Troy is not in his habitat.
Today's habitat is this:
Today is World AIDS day. AIDS/HIV is a disease/virus with which people in the West can expect near normal life expectancy, and a disease which kills thousands of people daily in third world countries.
AIDS is no longer simply the "gay plague" that can be dismissed with a self-righteous wave of the hand. It's killing parents and children. It's making orphans daily, orphans, whose own life expectancies are a lot shorter than any child should have.
Really, the only person I know who has actually died of AIDS was a straight man. I still miss him, and often think of him.
I don't know if you caught any of my posts where I revealed that I spent some ten years in professional theater.... I lost a couple of dear friends to AIDS. Breaks my heart because they were both so much fun, so bright, so light.
ReplyDeleteYes, I did! And I was thinking that many people with a background in theatre do make the best teachers.
ReplyDeleteI think that the AIDS "scare" of teh 80's and early 90's is now often ignored or forgotten, with other issues getting the attention. I feel like many of the people who have been killed by it are now forgotten and it makes me sad.