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==The Lost 70's==

I began my memoir Do You Live Around Here? when my partner was dying of AIDS. By the beinging of the 90's people were blaming what we did in the Seventies for the epidemic, and I wanted to let people know how incredible In the 1970's we invented our own community, refashioned our lives and lived out dreams of being creative, sexual, intelligent and persistent in ways we'd never thought possible. It was a time that fostered the ideas, artwork, fun and wisdom of many of the men who died. I appreciate what you are doing to honor them. I lived in Philadelphia from 1966-1971 when I entered the Peace Corps. My only homosexual experience there was an unfortunate affair with a fellow student,neither of us was ready to come out, and he never did, I just put it off until I got married, had a son and done everything expected of me.
I missed Philadelphia's experienced with AIDS, living it San Francisco style where I helped create the Hormel Gay Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library to remind the community we had survived other catastrophies like Hitler's Germany and to preserve our literature that had never been collected and protected. In my memoir there is a sketch of a friend I never got to know because he died. Had this happened in Philley I'd be submitting his name.
Thanks for keeping out experiences alive. --[[User:ChuckForester|ChuckForester]] Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:35:44 GMT

:Chuck- thanks for your beautiful post. Very moving to me! I love your whole story. I am a big fan of the Hormel Center at the SFPL. Eric Rofes was my biggest mentor, and the Hormel Center did a show about his work soon after he died. I am a big believer in archives and collections, and I am glad that there are people like you who are stewards for our history. Please stay tuned with my project, because I'm hoping that it will eventually go national, and of course SF history would be a big part of that. best regards, Chris --[[User:Harveymilk|Harveymilk]] Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:05:41 GMT

:Thanks for the interesting read :)
:regards,
:Ricky Paul --[[User:rickelz|rickelz]] Fri, 14 May 2010 20:54:58 GMT

:chris, when i saw your facebook post that walter lear had passed, i knew his name but wanted to learn more. his gayhistory page came up third on google and i was newly so grateful to your work + that this space exists. i've got my hands full and am no archivist but i will be working w/ an intern this summer who wants to do digital storytelling workshops. i'm hoping he will also be able to scan in a bunch of old FIGHT photos. wouldn't it be moving and fun to have recognizing-tagging-storytelling-wiki'ing parties?!?!??! more later. <3 --[[User:valobstruction|valobstruction]] Sat, 29 May 2010 20:38:06 GMT

:Wish I could 'Like' the Gay History Wiki on Facebook.
: --[[User:Faustino4|Faustino4]] Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:14:39 GMT

==Being There==

I, too, lived in Philadelphia during the AIDS pandemic. I helped provide care for my good friend, Jim Hymes, who died in the early 90s. It was then that I became aware of how it was that a very wonderful era in my life was ending. Jim and I had ventured away from West Virginia and traveled to Philadelphia via Columbus, OH, where we made many good friends. I don't know what caused me to search out this site today; maybe it's because I miss all those grand times now that I'm older. Maybe it's because I still miss Jim and the friends. Those were such intimate times; we were all getting to know ourselves, what it meant to be gay, what it meant to want to have a lasting relationship with someone, and what it meant to lose at a young age. We were incredible people then because we grieved every day. And through all that grief, we learned more about ourselves and about how it was that we were going to go forward. Strangers became friends as friends died. Once, in caring for Jim, I looked around the room at all the men who would be left when Jim died. How many would remain friends? How many would leave too. How many would become just names from the past? It's really nice to have this time to look backward for at least a few hours. For so much more, thank you. --[[User:fatherdan|fatherdan]] Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:41:59 GMT

:Thank you Father Dan. --[[User:Harveymilk|Harveymilk]] Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:54:09 GMT

Talk:Kehn, Don

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==Don Kehn==

I am Don Kehn nephew, looking for anyone who knew Don Khen. He was a visual designer for Wanamaker in Philly. Died in 1983 at the age of 25. Lived on Kater St, Rodman St, and South 15th Street over several years. We have paper work from Anita O'brien, Allen H Bar, MD, Warren S. Kurnick MD who all might have more information about him. Please contact me if you have any information about my uncle Don Kehn - bryan.kehn@gmail.com Thanks --[[User:bryankehn|bryankehn]] Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:40:15 GMT

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==Victor's Favorite Poems==

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
BY WALT WHITMAN

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.

This was also one of Victor's favorites. I believe he related to the narrator's need to be close to the many people he loved and who loved him in return, when it came to his own dear friends and loved ones, Victor thought of little else. --[[User:JimDerham|JimDerham]] Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:38:57 GMT

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==Date of death==

Aug 1994 --[[User:teveiock|teveiock]] Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:10:57 GMT

Talk:Mascioli, Michael

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==Which Michael Mascioli are we talking about?==

If the page here is about the former PGN reporter and Temple alumnus, he was still alive/well/living in SF as of 3/14/2011, at least per this article from Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/304647#tab=comments&sc=

Accordingly, I've removed the dates of birth and death as well as age at death. (The birth date was probably wrong as well, since according to various people search websites Mike would have to have been born in 1954 or 1955, rather than in 1956 as noted.)

Please, folks, let's try to be more careful. --[[User:belarootsinfo|belarootsinfo]] Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:29:40 GMT

==Thanks, Belarootsinfo==

Thanks for this important update! We receive names from people and then attempt to verify using the Social Security Death index. Sometimes we find someone with an identical name and use the information we find. We welcome your correction and I have updated Michael Mascioli's listing so that he is listed as alive. best regards, Chris --[[User:Harveymilk|Harveymilk]] Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:36:48 GMT

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==Michael Mascioli==

Please see my post at Mike's page. --[[User:belarootsinfo|belarootsinfo]] Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:33:17 GMT