A smiling Magic Johnson

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

We haven't lost any family to AIDS, but we have lost a couple of good friends, and a long time next door neighbor in suburban Chicago. A few dealing with the cocktail, and we both have had a couple of clients with HIV.

Indiana...our place is up in the northwest corner, tucked in up against the South Shore. Close to half of the members of the resident's association board of out little town are gay. It's a patch of blue in a sea of red.

In the central Flatbush section of Brooklyn I remember during the dark days going into an apartment building with many of its occupants showing signs of AIDS. The super had AIDS.

Now the area is being gentrified. But I believe it is a calm before the storm. I just cannot shake this feeling that the disease is mutating...gone underground to re-emerge in a more vicious form.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

In the central Flatbush section of Brooklyn I remember during the dark days going into an apartment building with many of its occupants showing signs of AIDS. The super had AIDS.

Now the area is now being gentrified. But I believe it is a calm before the storm. I just cannot shake this feeling that the disease is mutating...gone underground to re-emerge in a more vicious form.

Viruses are almost as good at that as humans.