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Missing Hearts in San Francisco

“Heaven is a city much like San Francisco.”  — Tony Kushner, Angels in America

Just there for a few days, and I remembered, in the rain, all the things I did love about living in The City. If it’s been taken over by the techies, totally, this wasn’t apparent to me; I largely saw what’s always been there for me: characters (that you don’t see anywhere else), water, cool breezes, astonishing buildings, non-pretentiousness. See, even a Cat in the City misses me:

Spitty

Spitty
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I also took a walk over to the de Young Museum, not far from where Spitty’s owner (my cousin Mary) lives. The Keith Haring exhibit (The Political Line) is on view till February.

It’s very powerful, even though I think I agree with my cousin that a little Haring does go a long way. What was particularly interesting/disorienting was overhearing the docent put Haring and AIDS and the political climate of the 1980s surrounding it in an historical perspective, like it was an event in time like the French Revolution or the days of King Tut. That was a great reminder to me that those of us who were there and survived that time have to continue to bear witness to it, even if we’d rather sometimes just move on. It’s like opening up a recently scabbed wound. Here are some pictures — some of his art had to do with anti-consumerism, which I didn’t really know about beforehand but was delighted to see. Here’s a great resource on Keith Haring over at Artsy. 

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Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian

Link to: Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian.

David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz

God how I loved this Frank Rich column on Saturday.

Everything from his acknowledgment of the gaybashing at the Smithsonian, to his remembrance of the AIDS chapel at Grace Cathedral in San Fran – where I set a key scene in my novel Benedictionwhich reminds me of a terrible time that keeps scratching at that door of forgetting.
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Just talking about Keith Haring and David Wojnarowicz is practically a subversive act in the corporate America we find ourselves in these days. These are men who raged (and that might not even be strong enough a word) against the dying of the light.

I remember holding them in awe when they were alive – and so many more, the men and women of Act Up, those who fought against the indifference of another time. If they were alive today they’d be leading the marches down places like Wall Street, where the criminals in the towers would not dare to leave their offices.

Quick, lock the doors. We’re not safe.

If you’re reading this you’re a survivor of the age of AIDS. I’ve always felt compelled to honor those who didn’t, sometimes by doing something compelling and which never seems to measure up, or in the end, just by living every day.

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