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“It Felt Like I Was Having an Out-of-Body Experience” - Larry Davis reflects on the day he was diagnosed with HIV.
POZ.com ^ | July 26, 2023 | Larry Davis

Posted on 07/26/2023 9:18:32 AM PDT by fwdude

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To: Boogieman

yeah i thought Larry Davis was a bit long in the tooth to be getting HIV now.


41 posted on 07/26/2023 10:42:52 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: fwdude
July 21, 1985 I found an unexpected lump. July 30, 1985 the "lump" was determined to be in tissue that is ALWAYS malignant. August 5, 1985 consult with doctors...decision...surgery 5 AM August 6, 1985. Follow-up with 3,000 RADs of radiation.

Parallel to my discovery/diagnosis was a co-worker in San Francisco. Unexplained "night sweats". Unable to continue working, he was taken in by an order of Catholic priests where he had been a member in the past. A few weeks passed and he died. In retrospect, he had AIDS.

My August 6 surgery was a concern if blood products were required. Fortunately not. Late August: histology lab reports a pure seminoma. Malignant, but fully isolated in the surgical extraction. I was fortunate. Another acquaintance had a similar diagnosis, but the "lump" was the size of a 12 oz Coke can lodged in the inguinal canal. That's the last I ever heard from my acquaintance.

42 posted on 07/26/2023 11:06:50 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Gay State Conservative
My sister is an RN. She worked labor and delivery for 30 years. On one occasion a patient was on the table for a C section. My sister always double gloved. In spite of that, she had a needle stick into her finger during the procedure. After the needle stick, it was disclosed that the patient on the table had AIDS. Oh S**t! She was tested multiple times following the "stick" and never indicated an infection.
43 posted on 07/26/2023 11:12:10 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: AbolishCSEU

Plus, I’m pretty sure he’s totally straight. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.


44 posted on 07/26/2023 11:23:42 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: fwdude

A “gay” man gets the “gay” disease. Must be a slow news day.


45 posted on 07/26/2023 11:31:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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To: fwdude

Covid and AIDS, imaginary diseases treated by drugs that killed you quicker than if you kept away from doctors.


46 posted on 07/26/2023 12:05:49 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: fwdude

Early on, it was called Gay Related Immuno...or GRIDS

The gay movement quickly lobbied to have the Gay part suppressed. Then, they continued to donate blood so that they could then say “See, straight people get this too...”


47 posted on 07/26/2023 12:20:54 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: IYAS9YAS
There are those out there who actively seek the HIV virus. They’re called bug-chasers. Sick people.

The suggested reason is even sicker.

Reformed homosexual sufferer Ronald G. Lee wrote an excellent essay describing these types and their motivations:

... there is nothing compassionate about a gay bar. It represents a laissez faire free sexual market of the most Darwinian sort. There is no place in it for those who are not prepared to compete, and the rules of the game are ruthless and unforgiving. I remember once being in a gay pub in central London. Most of the men there were buff and toned and in their 20s or early 30s. An older gentleman walked in, who looked to be in his 70s. It was as if the Angel of Death himself had made an entrance. In that crowded bar, a space opened up around him that no one wanted to enter. His shadow transmitted contagion. It was obvious that his presence made the other customers nervous. He stood quietly at the bar and ordered a drink. He spoke to no one and no one spoke to him. When he eventually finished his drink and left, the sigh of relief from all those buff, toned pub crawlers was almost audible. Now all of them could go back to pretending that gay men were all young and beautiful forever. Gentle reader, do you know what a "bug chaser" is? A bug chaser is a young gay man who wants to contract HIV so that he will never grow old.

(Lee, Ronald G., "The Books Were a Front for the Porn: The Truth About the Homosexual Right Movement," Virtue Online, https://virtueonline.org/truth-about-homosexual-rights-movement-ronald-g-lee)

Both sad and sick at the same time.

48 posted on 07/26/2023 12:31:20 PM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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To: Paisan
Then, they continued to donate blood so that they could then say “See, straight people get this too...”

I recently learned that this was a very real tactic that the most militant of these degenerate used, and I believe it, considering what they have shown themselves capable of these days. It was called ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power,) and included the most bizarre and disturbing demonstrations imaginable to try to pressure public money to be spent on their chosen problem.

49 posted on 07/26/2023 12:53:46 PM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I think you are thinking of Larry DAVID, not Davis.


50 posted on 07/26/2023 1:20:59 PM PDT by hattend (F U Pedo Joe.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
when you stick your 3rd leg into an area where another man voids his bowels


51 posted on 07/26/2023 1:24:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hattend

yes.


52 posted on 07/26/2023 1:27:36 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: fwdude

I used to feel sorry for these people, but I stopped caring about them several years ago. They asked for it, and they got it. The same way with these people dying of drug overdoses. 80,000 per year? Wish it was 800,000. If they are stupid enough to take drugs in the first place, good riddance.


53 posted on 07/26/2023 1:31:51 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: Penelope Dreadful
I used to feel sorry for these people, but I stopped caring about them several years ago. They asked for it, and they got it.

It's not just that, it's that they rub our noses in it at every turn. They demand that WE pay for their exorbitant drug regimen treatments to the tune of $25,000 per year per person. They demand that insurance companies require ZERO co-pays or deductibles for such treatment, saddling everyone else with a policy for the cost. Such special people!

They demand to serve in the Military, no questions asked, while claiming that HIV infection is a disability that cannot be discriminated against in employment.

They demand to donate blood, no questions asked, while being in the absolute highest risk group, potentially exposing others to a dangerous disease.

They incessantly blame normal people for "HIV stigma," and suggest remedial remedies for it, purportedly "reverse social stigma" toward those who refuse to date them.

I have no use for them.... at all. If I could swap all of their HIV meds for sugar pills I would.

54 posted on 07/26/2023 1:52:43 PM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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To: fwdude

Exactly. I mean I used to be apathetic toward them - they do their thing, and why should I care. But it’s never enough for them. So, screw ‘em.


55 posted on 07/26/2023 2:29:07 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: Penelope Dreadful

Bingo.

I’m convinced that many activists in the 80’s intentionally donated blood, deliberately killing thousands of innocent people.

These people are domestic terrorists.


56 posted on 07/26/2023 2:40:36 PM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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To: fwdude

I think what queers call “stigma” is really a sense of self-loathing over the nasty, filthy sex lives. All the need for “pride” this and that, is to compensate for a lack of pride in themselves. John Wayne Gacy and Jeff Daumer expressed that by killing lots of people just like themselves. So, I agree that they do not care how many other queers they kill thru HIV/AIDS.


57 posted on 07/26/2023 3:17:48 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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58 posted on 07/26/2023 4:26:52 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Penelope Dreadful
I think what queers call “stigma” is really a sense of self-loathing over the nasty, filthy sex lives.

That's an excellent observation.

59 posted on 07/27/2023 6:09:06 AM PDT by fwdude (Conservatism isn't just an ingredient you can add to a sh*t stew & call it good. It's comprehensive.)
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