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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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*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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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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"And at least they can't end up in the hands of suicidal teens" :) A very Australian take down of the stupidity of the...
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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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School teacher Wayne Tonks (screen capture) *Update: ‘Deep Water’ Is The Crime Show That Every Australian Should Be Watching. Junkee ...
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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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Care vandalised in Canberra for having rainbow flag The United Nations Human Rights Committee has castigated Australia (among other thin...
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I've always liked Moby. This new music video is really pissing off all the Trumpets, so all I can say is watch and share :)
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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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The gov is still trying to pass shit from the 2014 budget. Some may not realise this with the repackaging as the "omnibus bill"...
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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- 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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- Russia isolated over gay treatment
- Sea foam from Queensland
- Federal election date announced
- No welfare for the well off?
- Sprung
- "Best thing that's ever happened to me"
- A Bryan glut?
- David's place nearly flooded
- Bedless - when bed bugs bite
- Australian anti-smoking adds
- Richard Dawkins reads his hate emails
- Abbot's man Bernardi - fucks up badly
- HIV pride? Coming out about HIV
- Russia votes for repression
- Happy pill reduction - day 7
- Dick Smith add banned
- Church agency told to stop gay discrimination
- A different view
- Happy pill reduction - day 4
- Russia devolving as churches assert themselves
- Independent's concerned about anti-discrimination ...
- Simon explains, Tim busted
- "Same love"
- This sign is "offensive"?
- Happy pill reduction - attempt 2
- Ke$ha - Take It Off
- Human rights court - no to church discrimination
- Pink - Dear Mr President Live
- Man takes guns into JC Penny
- Nigeria - get real guys
- "God loves Uganda" - gay hate exported
- GetUp - against church discrimination
- Disclosing depression
- James Blunt - Wisemen
- Walking wounded
- Church discrimination - that's OK?
- Gene therapy treatment for HIV?
- Cat rescue injury
- HIV meds are working
- Muscle spasms
- Tom and Shane - their story
- Some funny pics
- Has the US already gone off the fiscal cliff?
- Weekend at David's
- HIV meds - one month
- The "f" word
- NSW HIV Strategy launch for 2012-2015
- Cat discovery
- Howard gov wasteful spending - IMF study
- Happy pill worries
- Bush fire picture
- Piers Morgan Versus Alex Jones
- Doctor and psychologist appts
- Australia heats up
- New condom packs
- Giant duck
- Simon gets nasty
- A very close smash
- Sneaky Sound System - Big
- Kylie Minogue - Timebomb
- Bloody exhausted
- "Tonight I'm Fucking You"
- HIV meds, 3 weeks
- Gay in public
- A strange meeting
- "Same love"
- False hope for HIV patients
- David moving in?
- Cigarette company covers plain smoke packs
- Lev 20:13, funny interpretation
- Life with mental illness
- HIV meds, day 18
- Sydney fireworks NYE, 9pm
- David's place
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