via Huffington Post
by Larry Kramer
I'm an ungrateful sonofabitch. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which helped save my life, is 25 years old, and I am going to be 77 years old come June, and I should be grateful, right?
It's difficult to be grateful when the AIDS plague is worse than ever all over the world and the two organizations I helped found to stop it are, if not no more, then in such pathetic shape as to almost be no more.
It's hard to blame these remnants of former greatness when the gay population of this country continues to be so passive, so apathetic, so shut-the-fuck-up-with-all-your-message-queen-shit.
Every treatment for HIV/AIDS exists because gay activists, almost all from ACT UP, fought like tigers to get them. This should stand as one of the great examples of what the gay population can achieve when they want something badly enough.
With what have we followed this great triumph? A return to the never-ending complacency on the part of almost all gay people. You think we're making real progress? I don't. Not really. I know you think so, but you're wrong. In the big scheme of things, we still have few rights. We still have no equality. We are not protected sufficiently from discrimination and the world's hate. That's correct: HATE. You only have to arrive at campaign and election time to know how much hate of gay people is out there. And we're back to allowing the straight world to treat us like shit, allowing candidates for the President of the United States -- the highest office in our country -- to say one revolting thing about us after another. Candidates don't dare say anything anti-Semitic out loud. But anyone can say any awful anti-gay thing that they want to. Doesn't this depress you enough to want to stuff their un-Christian words back down their poisonous throats?
Particularly after being given drugs to keep us alive, I find this gay complacency astounding and profoundly depressing.
We know what we have to do.
Why don't we once-and-for-all do it?
And by "we," I mean all of us.
continure reading HERE
Particularly after being given drugs to keep us alive, I find this gay complacency astounding and profoundly depressing.
We know what we have to do.
Why don't we once-and-for-all do it?
And by "we," I mean all of us.
continure reading HERE
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