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"Boy Erased" new trailer, before release this Friday
David and I can't afford going to the movies, but this is released on Friday in the US and Nov 8th here in Australia. Perhaps the loc...
Marriage equality despite Turnbull
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A "proud HIV+ gay man"
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From 2011: took 6 more years
David and I
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*Update July 2015: The new legacy tobacco document library has gone online. Here you can search over 14 million documents from the secret ...
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*click to enlarge Zac and Casper have always gotten on well, but with Cloe around pretty much all Zac's attention was taken up with ...
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Once again I would like to recognise that this is all because Turnbull has no spine and wouldn't allow a free parliamentary vote. Tha...
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Natasha, younger than we thought she was at only 13, has a new student. Little Cloe is such a sweet little thing Natasha has taken her un...
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A wide open look at the extremist christian hate preachers in the US, much of it about pastor Steven Anderson who recently said about Or...
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How times have changed from the hysterical anti-carbon tax fear of Abbott's.
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It was a night of drama last night, with Cloe finally going to sleep and passing away as I rocked her gently. She died at 2:45 AM this mo...
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This is what the Olympics have become. An Olympic official arresting a man because he's holding a gay flag. I posted this the other day ...
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Rachel Maddow goes through and shows how the anti-gay laws now in Russia came from the US, complete with people travelling over there to dru...
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I woke up this morning nearly an hour before the alarm was due to go off. I wasn't worried if I fell asleep again, and about a dreadfull...
About me
After 30 years of very physical full time work in the printing industry our print dept was outsourced and we all lost our jobs. As I'd gotten HIV beforehand and was having trouble attending and doing work I discussed with my HIV doctor whether I should apply for the Australian Disability Support Pension. He agreed,and I became a DSP pensioner under the new Gillard rules of adherence that now sees 75% of DSP applicants rejected.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
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- "Hands of love" - Miley Cyrus
- I nearly died in hospital special Christmas edition
- A Warning: Tenofovir and Naproxen
- When I got Shingles
- Helpful Ways to Stay Healthy with HIV - Guest post
- Telling your family that you're HIV positive - guest post
Assorted Links
- - ACON
- - Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International
- - Dave's blog: Life living with HIV
- - Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies
- - Know the Risk: HIV transmission
- - National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS
- - National LGBTI Health Alliance
- - Newly Diagnosed?
- - Positive Life NSW
- - Positive Living Centre
- - Project X, WA info and support for gay men
- - Right Wing Watch
- - Rob's blog: Surviving AIDS, PML....and Me
- - Suicide.....Read this first
- - Thinking Positive
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- Cut aid to homophobe African regimes
- "Will and Grace" - blamed for gay marriage
- Our picture taken
- Faces of HIV today
- $250k a year and still "struggling"
- Rainbow's end?
- "Traditional marriage" not under threat by gays
- Ellen's mum addresses PFLAG
- Australian Gay Rights
- Determined ignorance - Bryan's cancer story
- Paris - march against gay marriage
- "Gay is the word"
- 4 years since the mental collapse
- Sleepless night for us
- Nine lives
- Ellen Mania in Sydney
- Gross stupidity - Australia Post
- Ellen has landed in Sydney!
- Australia Post can't find my book they lost
- "A police service, not a police force"
- "Family Voice Australia" - denies gay bullying in ...
- 4 years with HIV
- Mugabe greets Pope at inauguration
- "Think of the children"
- Loredana's story - the right to die...
- The HIV is now undetectable
- Cyprus's run on the banks
- Knowledge vs ignorance
- "Wrap my arms around you"
- Republicans react - Sen supports gay marriage
- Cyclist gives Koala a drink
- A burpy day
- New Pope is a homophobe
- What homosexuality is not
- The children on Manus Island - their voice
- Australia Post lost my book
- Should the police march in Mardi Gras again?
- And the new Pope is......
- Gay business owners attacked on Facebook
- Blood pressure gone bananas
- Catholic church buys gay sauna
- "The Happiniess Trap"
- Living in the present
- Ellen interviewed - coming to Australia
- Community forum with the police
- More police violence reported from Mardi Gras
- Rally against police brutality
- Dental hospital appointment
- I spewed on the bus
- Bradley Manning nominated for Peace Prize
- What will happen if gay marriage happens?
- Police brutality at Mardi Gras parade?
- Stomach bug
- Gay Cardinal - no apology to LGBT people
- Pontif want add, ha ha
- Sydney's gay hate crimes - true numbers
- "Roll Reversal"
- Our Mardi Gras weekend
- Some pictures
- Record submissions for NSW marriage equality
- "Gay leave"
- Bradley Manning's motives for leaking info
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