Voice of Opposition Lip-biting spunk-shooting shit-smothered animalistic anti-rants and free-association non-linear thought trashcan.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
I want my people to be free
When I was young and coming to the conclusion that I was gay.....still grappling with my sexuality and confused, angry, frustrated, and defiant, I thought of one particular thing: HIV.
My parents, upon learning that I was homosexual, immediately thought about HIV, and the seeming guarantee that I would contract this terrible illness.
I see so much weakness in my community. I see weakness manifest itself as evil. I see it in my face as snobberey, obtuseness, irretractible hate, unforgiving judgment, and callous, cynical scrutiny. I see all my people resorting to the only thing they know in the face of the original and individual: Hate. All my people were taight to hate themselves and everyone like them. Why cant we be free of this?
Then there is the stubborn yet infinitely solvable problem of HIV. Why cant we learn to be safe? Why do so many of us younger ones regard HIV as little more than a treatable bother...........a disease that will surely be cureable in our lifetime............a stigma that can be removed given the proper propoganda........an inconsequential that deserves no attention whilst we are consumed with physical desire.........
I want boys all over the world to learn of their homosexuality without fear of HIV infection.
I want parents everywhere to accept their gay children without apprehension.
I want the ultimate stigma, the stigma of deadly STD, to be permanently disassociated from homosexuality such that gay-ness is viewed with every bit of hopefulness that straight-ness is.
And now my personal plead to my boys out there: USE A CONDOM. Barebacking isnt worth it.
NOTE: ALL ENTRIES MADE HEREIN COPYRIGHT MARK MILLS...ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Quotes
"Though they won't admit it, women were much happier when all they had to do was bake shit and pump out kids."--AMERICA (THE BOOK, pp. 127
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."--W aide in interview with Ron Suskind of the New York Times
"I dont know why they call it Hamburger Helper, it works just fine on its own!"--National Lampoon's Family Vacation
"Welcome to Kyoto: The Anagram-Lover's Tokyo"--Futurama
"Senator John Kerry courted his Southern audience by saying, 'I am one of you.' Candidate Dennis Kucinich did the same when speaking before the League of Pacifist Vegan Dwarves."--The Daily Show
About Mark
Mark is an art student born the same year of Elvis Presley's death. His
mother is a nurse, his father is an automobile manufacturer. He is the
first of six children. According to his grandmother's extensive geneological
investigations, Mark is the progeny of Irish horse-theives and French noblemen.
Moreover, Mark has twice been honored by the United States government as
"National Symbol of the Spirit of the Renaissance" and was knighted at the age of 13
by Her Majesty the Queen of England for exceptional performance in the service
of spectacular duty. Mentioned twice in Ronald Reagan's famous memoir, I Remember
Quite Clearly, Mark is thought by Washington insiders to be indirectly
responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Being an avid chess player, Mark is known for his strategic skill, patient planning,
and devestating attacks both on and off the board. Besides chess, Mark's hobbies include
international diplomacy, weight lifting, writing, reading, and megalomaniacal bullshitting.
You can often find Mark either at Galway or Callahan's pub enjoying a Guinness or eight.
Currently Mark spends his winters in the Bahamas and his summers in London.
