Tim Barrus Blog
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Art is Protected Speech
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Quid Pro Quo
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Tim Barrus: NYT
Trade wars are not easy to win. Trade wars are easy to lose. Trade wars are easy to lose when one side lies, and cannot be trusted. Bad faith or no faith or faith that is reactive, volatile, capricious, and armed with the pushback of more lies…
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World AIDS Day Is Hubris
Statistics abound.
This is the landscape of medical statistics because statistics do not speak back.
They’re impotent.
As impotent as we are in the face of HIV.
A simple strand of virus.
Is not impotent.
If you look at where the species came from, do you really think that HIV…
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Traditional Philanthropy: Tim Barrus, NYT
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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opinion/philanthropy-minorities-charities.html?comments#permid=29535183
I run a safe House for boys at-risk. Many self-identify as gay. Many have HIV, and sex work is always lurking somewhere in the background. If you can see past superficial issues of morality, you confront the beast, which is an awesome stigma.
Add into this toxic mix: addiction,…
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A Million of You to Pieces
following the ancestors of modern
human beings into the distant past
not too distant
but distant enough/
raises the question
of what is meant by the word
homo erectus
the cousin of
homo tinydickitus/
human. H. sapiens is
human by definition/
always a liability/
whereas homo erecticians
are not licensed…
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Young Boys Doing Sex Work: Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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The New York Times’ recently published piece on sex work, brothels, and landlords was informative, well-written, and fundamentally relevant. I am here to tell you that there is another side to these complex issues that never gets articulated because the world of young boys doing sex work is far more…
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No 1 Knows What Facebook Is
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
Different versions of one’s second selves remains a successful strategy. Greed is not a second self. It is a spectrum. We are not what we pretend to be on Facebook.
My actual friends plead with me not to lift the veil. My friends are…
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Bringing Back the Guillotine
Tim Barrus: The New York Times
A Response to David Brooks
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/republican-party-nativism-trump.html?comments#permid=29423042
The word KING insinuates that most of us are serfs because we are. Collectively, the serfs are finding out their power is ephemeral.
Americans bristle that they are not serfs.
People, you can’t even get into the castle…
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Cooking In the Rain
We do not mind cooking outside in the rain. Or sleeping in tents. What matters to us is staying together. We are quite aware of the fact that when we are together, we don’t even think too much about HIV.
We cannot afford to do this in most urban environments…
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I Popped One
When you combine the emotionally damaged trick with your life and your sexuality on a screen, as you advertise your cock and your hole as available for a price, you, too, have removed yourself from the possibility of knowing anyone on an intimate basis, basically because that computer screen is…