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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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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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- 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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- Alarm bells ringing over Abbott gov
- Black Friday's Rabid Zombie Shopping Stampede
- Christian ideology a "serious illness" - Pope :s
- Anti-Abbott cartoons
- Fear of loss
- Mardi Gras cop bashing - victim innocent
- Auto funding myths exposed - AMWU
- FSM on Futurama!
- Scott Morrison's speech to Nauru asylum seekers
- The Abbott cartoon from Indonesia
- Abbott's "Direct Action" not even costed
- Wound Up - latest Aussie politics
- Takei's Take - cutting the cable cord
- British Friends Describe Thanksgiving
- Crickets’ Slowed Down Sound Like Humans
- "The Scream" - Stand with LGBT Russia
- Daughter moving out
- Gotta laugh.... Abbott funnies
- Abbott crashes and burns online
- Two sides to an argument
- Dan Savage on kiddy fucking priests
- The word "faggot"
- Labor 52, Coalition 48
- Stuck in the middle
- Abbott supported a carbon tax
- My protest pics
- Diplomacy Abbott style - funny
- Abbott debt ceiling lie
- Perform This Way (Parody of "Born This Way" by Lad...
- It's great day for a protest!
- Gays have tornado power!
- Greenwich aims at private schools
- Cher - Take It Like A Man
- Car industry running out of time
- GetUp plans summer of climate action
- National marriage equility rally tomorrow!
- Abbott's shit hits the fan - Indonesia
- More funnies, ha ha ha...
- Wound Up 4 - Aussie politics
- Welcome to the machine mate
- Telstra's copper network is fucked
- Sri Lankan's desperately protest
- NSW private schools on notice
- 7 Common HIV Myths Debunked
- Some funnies
- Wal-Mart's America - employee food drive
- Bully Obama
- TPP - Petition to trading nations
- Gay with a wife? Steven's story
- "We" don't accept this.....*graphic image warning*
- Scott Morrison's insane church beliefs
- Who are Sri Lanka's disappeared?
- Scott Morrison is a Pentecostal Christian
- TPP fall out continues - US power projection?
- Takei's Take - the future of journalism
- Bus Marshall floors mum at bus stop - Sydney
- US cop fires into car with kids
- Is Wikileaks still hated?
- Abbott gives away the boats
- One year with David
- More TPP fallout
- Cut minimum wage - Abbott advisor chairman
- NSW gov supports medical marijuana
- Testing for gays - Arab style
- UN on the LGBT
- Immoral Abbott
- National day of climate action - tomorrow
- Gays have meteorite power!
- Coles endangers lives
- Fallout begins over TPP leak
- No more asylum boat secrecy
- "Fossil of the day" awarded - Australia
- Beckham's gayest pic yet
- China mocks televangelists :)
- NSW pollies say no, just
- Philip Morris suing Australian gov
- David Hicks bids to clear his name
- Secret TPP released by Wikileaks
- UNMANNED America's Drone Wars full film
- Russian editor arrested under anti-gay laws
- "Gay Son Might've Been Molested" - Christian advice
- "Living a lie" - Sochi
- "Russia day" - NYSE
- "Rich people don't create jobs" - 1 percenter
- Mindblowing Wealth Inequality in America
- Stupid bank sends me card
- Equal Love - feat. Dolly Diamond & Luke Gallagher
- Three HIV stories
- Bill Maher on Christians - funny
- Drones "violate international law"
- Cutest cat pic ever
- NSW marriage equality debate
- FSM game!
- "We are family"
- Couples book to marry in ACT
- No more HIV scare campaigns - ACON
- Gays "contradict religious belief"
- Fred Nile protests anti-discrimination bill
- Stupid bank sends me PIN
- "Fresh" veges are not always fresh
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