HIV/AIDS

I'm 57 years old, 6'2 1/2" thinning blond hair, and bedroom blue eyes.
I was diagnosed with HIV on June 10, 1984, and AIDS in March of 1996.
I am an IV drug user in recovery, my clean and sober date is 10-20-98 to the present.
I am an ex-con, having spent many years in and out of prison for crimes relating to supporting my drug habit.
It has been well over 15 years since I was last arrested, and I have no plans in becoming involved in crime or drugs ever again.

I am VERY active as a volunteer advocate for the betterment of HIV services and HIV/STI/Hep C prevention/education here in New Mexico. I serve on several boards representing the HIV+ population.

I have been told numerous times I'm confrontational. (usually the person saying it is some governmental lackey or dickwad).
When I'm called that the person saying it tries to make it sound like it's a "BAD" thing.
For the last 26 years, every morning when I wake up I have to confront the day, not knowing if it is going to be a good day or a bad day. I have to confront a shelf full of pill bottles, HIV meds that too often make me hurl. as we all know you have to re-take your meds if you throw them up so you don't develop resistance to them.

I make the most out of my good days, and on my bad days I try avoiding crass and abrasive people because invariably some dildiot will say something stupid that sets me off and I'll blast them.

I silently tolerate the unlearned, but I refuse to accept bad treatment from ANYONE just because I have HIV.

I am opinionated, and I'm not scared to voice my opinion.

I will always stand up for the rights of the "little guy". Especially if he/she shows no fear against the odds and is willing to continue the fight despite knowing it is a losing battle.
I call that courage, and I applaud courageous acts.

I am a leader, not a follower.

I can be intimidating, both physically as well as intellectually.

I am very adept at using the "threat" of force or violence, but usually simply raising my voice gets the point across.

Honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, tall red-heads, short blonds, non-drug or alcohol addicted people.

abusive husbands and boyfriends. men that control who their girlfriends and wives talk to or have as friends. abusers are cowards.

Loud & obnoxious people.

Game players and scammers.

I have a VERY low tolerance for drunks, or ignorant drunken behavior.

jail and prison guards that use their position to "get even" for something that happened to them as a child.

I hate bullies and cowards. they are almost always one and the same.

after 19 years in prisons and jails, several tens of thousands of books it is hard to choose just one or two, but, anything by JRR Tolkein, Anne McCaffrey, Sue Grafton, Sidney Shelton, LeCarre, Louis Lamour, Zane Grey, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, HG Wells,

The Great Escape, ANY "John Wayne"
way too many try and only choose a few.

riding my motorcycle, fishing, camping, NASCAR, canoing i own my own 17 foot aluminum canoe.
taking a rolled one and a cold one out onto my front porch and watching another of the wonderful New Mexico sunsets.

Gigi harem
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