Rudynate

It is true that American healthcare is among the best in the world - for those who can afford it. Many can't and are uninsured, so the best healthcare in the world doesn't do them much good.

Mine is the names of our two cats at the time Rudy and Nate. Nate died two years ago and I have the username to memorialize him - one of the best cats ever.

Mine is the names of our two cats at the time Rudy and Nate. Nate died two years ago and I have the username to memorialize him - one of the best cats ever.

I believe Dirk Jager may still escort

I believe Dirk Jager may still escort

Mine are all oldies: Gordon Grant, Dirk Jager, Tony Serrano, Caedon Chase

Mine are all oldies: Gordon Grant, Dirk Jager, Tony Serrano, Caedon Chase

I think it's pretty individual. I come from a very large family. It was not a particularly warm, fuzzy experience and I wouldn't wish it on any child. Nonetheless, my mother couldn't get enough of children. Once her nest was empty, she filled it up again by starting a child care business. After that she became so attached to two of her great-grandchildren that she insisted that she alone knew what was best for them and their mother had to limit my mother's contact with them because she became so nutty.

Now when was the last time a computer had a floppy drive???

I don't remember where I read it, but I read a proposed timeline for the spread of HIV and it seems plausible. The original zoonotic transmission is postulated to have occurred in about 1925 in a very isolated region. Because the region was so isolated, transmission among humans was initially very slow and limited to the original region for many years. Gradually it spread to larger cities and it is thought to have entered the US in around 1975. One needs to remember that HIV, while extremely virulent, is not that infectious. For it to spread rapidly would require exceptional circumstances - exactly the circumstances that it found when it became established in the gay male population of the 70s in the US - a highly mobile, very sexually active population.

I never use the word "promiscuity." It's too value-laden. I like "sexually active." Descriptive without judging.

Actually, there was something that made me feel old. I stopped to help this decrepit old guy who was laying in the middle of the street, drunk out of his mind. I asked him if he was OK, and he looked at me and said, "Get out of here grandpa." The thing was, he looked a lot older than I did.

I've always felt old. When I was a little kid, the only kids in the neighborhood to play with were younger than I. After that, I found myself in one situation after another where I was older than everybody else. When I was around 26, I started running around with a guy and his friends who were all recent college graduates and I felt older than they, even thought it was only a few years' difference. Now, a lot of the men I know are half my age. Fortunately I've stopped feeling older than they. To me, were all contemporaries. Age just isn't something I think too much about.

Right - the Windsors were originally from Haus Hanover. The last Hanoverian Monarch was Queen Victoria. Edward VII, Victoria's oldest son, was the first Saxe-Coburg. They changed their name to Windsor in WWI. The Mountbattens were originally Battenberg.

I'm sure that was true. Average straight guys were envious. They would say, "Man, you guys have got it good!"

Uncle was a Mountbatten - Charles inherited the characteristic Windsor look. When I was a kid, the Sunday supplement of the newspaper was always full of photographs of European royalty. My mother always commented that the Windsors all looked "horsey."

It appeared first among gay men because they had a lot of sex - it is hard to imagine now how much sex gay men had in the seventies. In a place like San Francisco or New York it wasn't at all difficult to have sex with several men in a day. If you went to the baths, not at all difficult to play with 4, 5 or 6 men. Straight people were shocked by it. I remember a couple who co-owned a stock transfer agency. They were sort of an "it" couple - they gave great parties and everyone wanted to know them. They would go to the baths and stay high on coke for several days at a time. They would have take-out delivered to the baths and their office staff would call them at the baths and have them paged if there was something they needed to take care of at the office. In large cities they had huge warehouse parties that were the forerunners to today's raves - all about dancing till you drop, sex and drugs. That's what the 70s were like.

I dont ever recall them requesting permission to re-test my blood.

I did that too. I worked the phones on the Project Inform Hotline. It was pretty scary at times - somebody deep in the bible belt who isn't out and had become symptomatic but won't see a doctor and wants to know what to do, etc, etc.

There's nothing wrong with your ass, it's just that they're cut too low. I wore the pair that I bought two or three times, but I always felt like I needed to pull them up in the back because my crack was showing. It wasn't , but just barely.

I got a pair but I didn't like the low waist. The advertising even said that they were high-waisted. I think jeans that ride low on your ass look bad on nearly everybody. If I can find the right fit, I will enjoy them. One of the things that I like about them is that they show off a well developed pair of calves. I have discovered a way of training calves that has added 3/4 inch in just a few weeks.

That makes two of us.

Luc Montagnier, a French virologist was awarded the Nobel Prize for identifying HIV.

I went to the City Clinic for treatment in about 1978 while I was visiting San Francisco. They asked me if I would participate in the hepatitis B study. I told them I didn't live in San Francisco, that I was only visiting and they said it didn't matter - my data would still be useful. I went back home and forgot about it and weeks later I got a letter from them informing me of my test result.

I have read that before - it is thought HIV made the leap from animal to human in about 1925.