Monday, December 01, 2008

World AIDS Day 2008: Remembering The Dead

Today is Monday December 1, World AIDS Day. On this day I would like to list some people who were very important to me who have died as a result of this horrible plague.

Essex Hemphill poet
Marlon Riggs, filmmaker (Tongues Untied, Ethnic Notions)
Paul Monette, author (Borrowed Time)

Michael Callen, lead singer (The Flirtations)
Pedro Zamora, MTV's Real World: San Francisco
Isaac Asimov, author (Foundation series)
Randy Shilts, author (The Mayor of Castro Street, And The Band Played On)
Keith Haring, artist
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Bob Hattoy, activist (spoke at the 1992 Democratic National Convention)
Who would you like to remember today?

1 comment:

  1. Bruce Kamerling
    David Hirsch
    Sal Licata
    Larry Ross
    Andre Jacobs
    Christopher Ausden

    These fragments I have shored against my ruins
    Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.

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