Post #1031: My latest ‘Aha!’ moment
I’m very close to finishing the book Survivor – Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik and some two-thirds of the way through I was jolted by this passage: We could have run, could have made it, could have reached the welcoming arms of the British, who surely wouldn’t fire […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 22, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography Childhood trauma mental health PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) sexual abuse Auschwitz concentration camp Holocaust Primo Levi Sam Pivnik Source Type: blogs
Review (and a personal retrospective) – Behind the Candelabra
With only the most scant help from Google I have been trying to remember more about my personal, professional meeting with Liberace (“Please, call me Lee.”) It was some time in the mid-1980s, while I was working at a St. Catharines, Ontario radio station, when the subject of last night’s premiere of Behind the Candelabra […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - May 27, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV biography/autobiography homophobia homosexuality media sexual orientation social conservatives stigma Behind the Candelabra Liberace Source Type: blogs
Lunch with Vito Russo
Disclaimer: My memories have been assisted by Google and a piece of paper, 8-1/2″ x 11″ divided in half, on which is written the following: After signing up for The Movie Network again recently, I came upon the film “Vito: A Man For All Seasons”. I was immediately transported back to the early summer day in [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - April 7, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV biography/autobiography homophobia Politics - USA sexual orientation social justice Celluloid Closet Gay-Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Ronald Reagan Vito Russo Source Type: blogs
Early morning, April 25, 2007
A prompt this week to write about something in a health-care context brought out this story which, despite having been told over and over in my head, had heretofore not made it down in writing. It wasn’t quite 5:30 am and Janice was already waiting for me on the main floor of Union Station. Her [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - March 14, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography Craig Chaplin family grief health-care Montréal Perth sexual orientation Source Type: blogs
Shaun Fryday, whose faith community emulates his personal hospitality, to be this year’s recipient of the Craig Chaplin Memorial Award
Rev Shaun Fryday has been selected by Montreal’s United Theological College to receive the award, established by my late brother, at the UTC Convocation on May 8th, 2013. Fittingly, the ceremonies will take place in Shaun’s congregation of Beaconsfield United Church. When he received the news, Shaun is said to have been deeply moved, recalling [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 24, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College) Craig Chaplin sexual orientation social justice spirituality United Church of Canada youth Beaconsfield United Church LGBTQ Youth Centre Source Type: blogs
“A Winter Night” by Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
When biting Boreas, fell and doure, Sharp shivers thro’ the leafless bow’r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv’d glow’r, Far south the lift, Dim-dark’ning thro’ the flaky show’r, Or whirling drift: Ae night the storm the steeples rocked, Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked, While burns, wi’ snawy wreeths upchoked, Wild-eddying swirl, Or thro’ the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 25, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: poetry Source Type: blogs
Coming out as the end of a beginning
This morning on CTV’s Canada AM Kevin Newman, of Question Period fame, was promoting a very important segment on this weekend’s W5 program (Saturday at 7 p.m. ET) and, in the accompanying online article he wrote, “Coming out is toward the end of the process for our gay children” – when learning to accept it [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 24, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography coming out of the closet family homosexuality mental health sexual orientation youth YouTube CTV Television Network Kevin Newman Question Period Source Type: blogs
A month since I last blogged…that feels about right!
Pictures from in and around Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada in late December (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 6, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: architecture Perth photography Source Type: blogs
December 6th
While we honour the memory of all victims of male violence against women everywhere, before and since, Canadians particularly recall today – on this our National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women – the names of the victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989: Geneviève Bergeron, 21, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 6, 2012 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: activism gender grief Dec. 6 Ecole Polytechnique men's violence against women misogyny white ribbon Source Type: blogs
