December 1 is World AIDS Day.
Saw "Milk" last night.
You have to see it. Soon.
I lived in SF during that time.
I demonstrated on Castro Street after the Anita Bryant Dade County Decision.
I remember Harvey Milk meeting folks as they boarded and got off the streetcars at Market St.
To me he was a movie star, a celebrity, even then.
I wish I had told him how much I respected and supported him.
Did I think he had courage then?
I don't remember.
Maybe I just took his courage in stride, or for granted.
I wonder how he might have impacted the AIDS epidemic had he lived.
Cleve Jones made the first quilt piece for Marvin Feldman, whom I knew. He was my friend George's best friend from back east.
We all went to Dim Sum together in Chinatown, and we have home movies of that experience.
Michael Bennett, director of "A Chorus Line", has a quilt piece. He's from Buffalo, my home town.
A fellow high school student in the class before me has a piece.
Thinking of friends, lovers, family members lost through AIDS, or suicide, or internalized homophobia, I'm appreciating the many changes over the last thirty years from the courage and commitment of many we know, knew, or new of, like Harvey Milk, as well as the effort, our efforts, to keep moving things forward.
What kind of action can we take?
View the Quilt http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Support our new president in the continuing fight for civil rights.
See the movie.
My writing this is a step in that direction.
Love,
Judith
You have to see it. Soon.
I lived in SF during that time.
I demonstrated on Castro Street after the Anita Bryant Dade County Decision.
I remember Harvey Milk meeting folks as they boarded and got off the streetcars at Market St.
To me he was a movie star, a celebrity, even then.
I wish I had told him how much I respected and supported him.
Did I think he had courage then?
I don't remember.
Maybe I just took his courage in stride, or for granted.
I wonder how he might have impacted the AIDS epidemic had he lived.
Cleve Jones made the first quilt piece for Marvin Feldman, whom I knew. He was my friend George's best friend from back east.
We all went to Dim Sum together in Chinatown, and we have home movies of that experience.
Michael Bennett, director of "A Chorus Line", has a quilt piece. He's from Buffalo, my home town.
A fellow high school student in the class before me has a piece.
Thinking of friends, lovers, family members lost through AIDS, or suicide, or internalized homophobia, I'm appreciating the many changes over the last thirty years from the courage and commitment of many we know, knew, or new of, like Harvey Milk, as well as the effort, our efforts, to keep moving things forward.
What kind of action can we take?
View the Quilt http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Support our new president in the continuing fight for civil rights.
See the movie.
My writing this is a step in that direction.
Love,
Judith
