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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
We'll never forget...
A "proud HIV+ gay man"
Down under
From 2011: took 6 more years
David and I
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For a few moments the discussion on the ABC's Question and Answer descended last night into an unedifying screaming bitch fight betwe...
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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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Senator Dean Smith Gay Western Australian senator Dean Smith will introduce his marriage equality bill into parliament this Thursday, t...
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Big headlines from New Zealand today about a convicted rapist who was married in a maximum security jail to his former lawyer. Correct...
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It's hard to believe this sort of stuff could still go on in such a country as England. It wasn't by anyone who was just an emplo...
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This is the book David and I were interviewed for, being part of the twenty people in the book. The first lot is back from the printers...
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For the overseas people reading this, the Australian constitution has a very clear law that you can't be a member of the federal par...
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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- Gays living near homophobes affects LGB mental, physical health & wellbeing - Australian study
- NSW gov official apology for 1978 Mardi Gras viole...
- "How did you get it?" - an invasion of privacy, in...
- A note to spammers saying they have an HIV cure
- "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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- Burning the scriptures
- Happy Blasphemy Day!
- Sydney Mardi Gras
- Gay in the AFL
- Housing form completed
- Julian Assange addresses the UN - transcript
- "Do not resuscitate" - tattoo
- Wikileaks are not terrorists
- Baseball bat reality
- Living under drones
- No marriage vote: behind the scenes
- Income inequality after the GFC
- Amazing statistic
- Smooth sailing (so far) with form from hell
- "Cranks and crazies", Huffington Post
- Doctor visit, medical assessment
- Anti-homophobe adds: an Australian first
- Israel is Apartheid?
- funniest thing in months........
- Peaceful Irony
- Issues of not working
- Republican "cranks and crazies": Treasurer
- Reaction to gay marriage defeat in parliament
- Cameron slams Gina Rinehart
- Apple maps... man the lifeboats!
- HIV ignorance
- Mining threatens the Barrier Reef
- Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
- I'm elegantly wasted
- Unrepresentative swill
- Australia advances toward quantum computer
- Cartoons insulting Mohammed
- Bernardi quits over bestiality & gays
- Mad Mitt vs Americans
- Muslims condemn the thugs
- Gay marriage = "bestiality"....
- Out of the house in Spring
- Blasphemy Day
- Tips to Avoid AIDS - Ricky Gervais
- Some Muslims just don't get it
- Kitten grows
- Clear footage Muslims instigated the violence
- Brain gone bananas
- Life of Brian
- Graphic video of the violence
- Its official; Hicks was drugged in Gitmo
- Reaction begins to the Muslim violence
- Muslims turn violent in Sydney
- Worse for wear
- Trip to Maroubra beach
- My first trip to ACON
- "THE LIFE ORGANIC" - by Dom and Adrian
- Judith Durham, the seekers,2009
- Gotta post this one again
- Christian lobby: gay worse than smoking
- Depression perils
- Form rage
- After the Chronic Disease Dental Scheme ends
- I'm impressed America: Breaking The Set
- Assange's lawyer interviewed
- Betty Bowers Explains Abortion to Everyone Else
- Priscilla bus gifted to Broken Hill
- Embarking on the next form challenge
- Chronic Disease Dental Scheme Closure
- Ex Gitmo prisoner lodges complaint to UN
- Next step: "Private Rental Subsidy - Special"
- OMG sooo funny.
- On borrowed time
- Campbell Newman slashes and burns
- Keep free trade fair
- Investigations into Israel war crimes fail
- Supermarket rage!
- A decision
- "Dog whistle" politics
- Gastroenteritis outbreak, NSW
- Australia's economy on the skids?
- It's Spring in Sydney
- Poker machine hypnosis
- Latest psychologist visit
- Faaaaabulous!
- Haters in the closet
- Some more pics of the Ridge
- Bowl cancer screening program
- What an insult
- "I've been contemplating suicide......"
- The journey back to Sydney
- Generator noise video
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