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A Wonderful Love Letter To the Generations of Gay Men Lost To HIV Who Weren’t Here To Celebrate #Stonewall50

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William Ryall posted a wonderful love letter to generations of gay men lost to HIV who weren’t here to celebrate #Stonewall50 on The AIDS Memorial’s Instagram, “I want to share this on Pride weekend. We must never forget.”


These beautiful boys, sitting on a Greenwich Village stoop, celebrating Pride in the late ‘80’s are ALL GONE!

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM either died here in New York or went home to die.

My brother Tom, front row right, died at St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital.

After one of my final visits to see him, I was leaving the hospital utterly exhausted physically and emotionally and there was a homeless man sitting outside the hospital singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” I sobbed the entirety of Ninth Avenue from 59th Street to 43rd.

We are deeply indebted to those resistors in ACT UP that started to make real change so that more would not have to die. It was a time when resistance was absolutely necessary because of an administration that was doing nothing.
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We need to learn from our brothers and sisters in ACT UP who knew how to garner the attention necessary to make real lasting change.

Join the fight against AIDS, injustice, governmental hubris and ignorance and the right to seek asylum in our country.

We haven’t fought so hard for awhile but it’s time. The children demand it of us and the public will one day thank us for it.”

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