Tag Archives: AIDS

Miss You Long Time – Michael Charles Smith

December 7, 2023 – 7:41 am

In the summer of 1995 my baby brother succumbed to the ravages of AIDS. I miss him every day along with the rest of my friends and family who died from that killer. I will remember them forever. My brother’s name was Michael Charles Smith. He’s the smaller blonde boy in the photo. And still […]

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Losing an Eye – Isaan – 1999

June 10, 2023 – 3:02 pm
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FREEBIRD INDEED by Peter Nolan Smith

April 5, 2022 – 7:07 pm

Throughout 1994 the doctors at Boston’s Beth Israel spoke about turning the corner on AIDS and in January my youngest brother had made enough of a comeback for me to contemplate taking a West Coast job offer. “We’re opening a Milk Bar in Beverly Hills.” The original club in New York had been a success […]

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THE PRESENCE OF THE GONE by Peter Nolan Smith

August 23, 2021 – 2:46 am

Boston is a four-hour bus ride from New York. My brothers and sisters lived in the southern suburbs of my old hometown. After my return from overseas in September 2011 from my European posting I called several times to arrange visits, but my father’s death in 2010 had disconnected our present paths from the routes […]

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To Forgive and Forget by Peter Nolan Smith

December 1, 2019 – 6:25 am

After my youngest brother died of AIDS in 1995, I traveled to the holiest shrines in Asia. The ancient temples salved little of my grief and I switched to worshipping the high heels of the go-go girls. Vee danced at the Baby A Go-Go in Pattaya. She had one eye. We had an affair. The […]

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