Childhood pictures and early memories
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Source: My journey with AIDS - May 5, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography Source Type: blogs
Pill relief
I’m awaiting delivery of my next two weeks’ worth of medications with a major change in the blister packs. Gone will be Norvir, Prezista, Truvada and Nevirapine, all taken twice a day, and they’re being replaced with ONE pill, Genvoya, ONCE a day containing 4 new-to-me drugs in combination. What a relief, other pills continuing … Continue reading Pill relief (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 13, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography health-care medical update Source Type: blogs
World AIDS Day 2017
I can’t find too much going on to commemorate World AIDS Day in Toronto this year but it just so happens to be the day my Beyond Surviving group meets, so I guess that’s something. With ACT’s shift away from surviving AIDS to living with HIV, and the promise of preventing it entirely with an … Continue reading World AIDS Day 2017 (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 30, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography Source Type: blogs
National Coming Out Day 2017
It’s October 11. In the United States, at least, it’s National Coming Out Day. I know of no such celebration in Canada but we’ve been ahead of the pack inn most ways having to do with lgbt-2 liberation. For me, Coming Out Day was sometime in February of 1981. I had come crashing out to … Continue reading National Coming Out Day 2017 (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 11, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism biography/autobiography coming out of the closet family homosexuality sexual orientation Source Type: blogs
Before … After
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Source: My journey with AIDS - August 19, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography Source Type: blogs
The flight was brief, the landing less than graceful
I was on my way for a hair-cut this morning when, at the corner of Sherbourne and Gerrard Streets, I momentarily took flight. Picture Peter Pan on his worst day. While still airborne I thought of Craig, of the 24th of April, 2007. But I was still conscious. I managed to land without breaking my … Continue reading The flight was brief, the landing less than graceful (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - May 3, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography bipolar II Craig Chaplin health-care medical update Source Type: blogs
24 April 2007 – 24 April 2017
I’m feeling some anticipatory trauma, if there is such a thing, as we approach the tenth anniversary of the mishap which would, soon thereafter, take the life of my brother Craig. Maybe it’s a heightened sense of awareness that this sad anniversary is upon us. It was April 24, 2007, his partner Claude’s birthday, when … Continue reading 24 April 2007 – 24 April 2017 (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - April 23, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography brain trauma Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College) Craig Chaplin family grief post-traumatic stress Source Type: blogs
Insubordination? (Probably.)
The Body Politic excerpt (PDF) I Googled my name today, for the hell of it, and came across this article I wrote for the June, 1986 edition of “The Body Politic”, Pink Triangle Press’s forerunner to Xtra! I was up to my arm-pits involved in this using the pseudonym David Coleman to disguise myself to … Continue reading Insubordination? (Probably.) (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - April 6, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV autobiography coming out of the closet homophobia homosexuality human rights media sexual orientation social conservatives youth CKTB CRTC Gay Outreach (GO) Niagara John Michael St. Catharines talk rad Source Type: blogs
Press Release: The United Theological College / Le S éminaire Uni, Montréal – Honours at Convocation 2017
The Senate and the community of the United Theological College are honoured to recognize the leadership and ministry of two colleagues at our Spring 2017 Convocation. At 2pm on May 10th 2017, at Roxboro United Church in Roxboro, Quebec, Rev. James Scott will be recognized through the conferring of the degree Doctor of Divinity … Continue reading Press Release: The United Theological College / Le Séminaire Uni, Montréal – Honours at Convocation 2017 (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - March 19, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College) Craig Chaplin United Church of Canada Rev. Dr. Susan Mabey Rev. James Scott Source Type: blogs
Connecting with ‘ The War To End All Wars ’ – Pte. Thomas Butler
Originally posted on My journey with AIDS...and more!: There is tragic irony with the news that Canada has suffered our greatest single-day loss of troops in Afghanistan with the deaths of six soldiers in a roadside bombing. A seventh Canadian suffered serious injuries. Regardless of our views on Canada’s role in this conflict our… (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - March 9, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography family genealogy grief Perth and Lanark County Harper Pte. Thomas Butler Tay Valley World War One Source Type: blogs
Susan Mabey to receive 2017 Chaplin Memorial Award
“A Christian who happens to be a lesbian”, Susan Mabey’s is a name which has been more than incidental in the long struggle for LGBT inclusion in the United Church of Canada. Cited by the Chaplin Award committee for her recent bridge-building, even as a self-described ‘lightning rod’, as the multi-ethnic Toronto school where she … Continue reading Susan Mabey to receive 2017 Chaplin Memorial Award (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College) church coming out of the closet Craig Chaplin grief homophobia homosexuality sexual orientation social justice United Church of Canada Source Type: blogs
Do You Hear The People Shing?
This coming Thursday I am having a number of teeth and partial teeth extracted as my mouth make-over goes into high gear (This is the work that is more typically done by the fifth year of one’s sobriety but, as I didn’t think I’d live long enough to bother, I’ve waited until the tenth.) Yesh … Continue reading Do You Hear The People Shing? (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 18, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography health-care medical update recovery Source Type: blogs
Stuart McLean in a serious moment
I once met Stuart McLean, the legendary Canadian broadcaster who died yesterday. It was both my brush with fame and utter modesty. The occasion was the aftermath of a very tragic time, in the 1980s, in St. Catharines, Ontario where I worked in private radio. Several men had been arrested for sexual encounters in a … Continue reading Stuart McLean in a serious moment (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 16, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography media suicide #cbc metro morning #cbc morningside #cbc stuart mclean Source Type: blogs
It ’ s Bell Let ’ s Talk Day – let ’ s review
It is a measure of self-compassion on this Bell Let’s Talk Day when I can slow down and remind myself of where I am and where I’ve come from. I have a long history of, and recovery from, substance abuse – chiefly, but not solely, alcohol – begun shortly after a period of sexual abuse … Continue reading It’s Bell Let’s Talk Day – let’s review (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV autobiography Bell Let's Talk Day bipolar II Childhood trauma mental health PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) sexual abuse sexual orientation stigma Source Type: blogs
The ever-present question: Now what?
I describe myself, rightly so I think, as a long-term survivor of AIDS and HIV. I offer as evidence my being diagnosed with HIV in 1989 and my long, slow recovery from AIDS-related Cryptosporidiosis in the early 90s – the effects of which shadow me to this day. Over the years, due to a serious accident … Continue reading The ever-present question: Now what? (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 23, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography bipolar II mental health PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) stigma suicide Bell Let's Talk Day Source Type: blogs
