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Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis: Chapter 3: 318 West 22nd Street

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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What Attracted You to Jimmy?

In tos early days, you could not get support of services. You couldn't get a food stamps because they didn't consider h i v a grounds for disability in the very early days. A crisis intervention worker and a buddy would take it on themselves to go to the abandoned building and bring water and food and clean. By the time i meet jimmy in the apartment that laura and a lawyer from jm h c hade to fight to get him, the muscles are long. N jimmy is about my height, with prominent cheek bones, black hair, a moustache and a pale complexion. We're an odd pair. I've never met a drug attic

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