Headstrong at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, a treatment program providing free mental health to veterans with PTSD.
Our mutual friend Matthew Riemer, co-author with Leighton Brown of the dynamic and must-have LGBTQ history book We Are Everywhere, introduced us.“You guys have a lot to connect on,” Matthew said.
I moved to the city in ’83, the year Gerard graduated from Columbia University. He ran support groups for people with AIDS at the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
He cared for a lover till he died. I told him I had 20 friends die of AIDS before I was 30 and confided that, even now, 54 years old and married, I never have sex without the fleeting thought of death racing through my brain.“The doom I felt back then is my shadow.