Tim Barrus Blog
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AIDS IN APPALACHIA STILL KILLS PEOPLE
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AIDS went off the radar screens. But it’s still there. Lurking in the background noise. It’s a demographic now. Whatever the fuck they want to say about it, AIDS is hard to miss in Appalachia. For those of us who live here, there’s little reality in the outstretched hand of…
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The Price of it Is Just Too Goddamn Fucking High
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I Steal Their Jeans
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i once wanted
now, there’s a title/
i once wanted/
to write a book called
THE ONES WHO LEFT/
and then, i realized
that was all of them
and it would be a
very long novel walking
the dark moors at night
with heathcliff and
i would have a candle…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times Health Section
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I work with teenage boys at-risk who have HIV. It is much more difficult for the teenager who is endemically entrenched in intractable poverty than the teenager who is middle class. In the field of HIV, we often, and wrongly, refer to them as the hard to reach. They are…
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JUST RICH WHITE GUYS SAY IT ONLY GETS BETTER
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Because it got better for them.
The rest of us are not them.
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Some Kids Make Things
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Some kids make things to make things.
Some kids make things to play.
Like in the mess of it.
Some kids make things to take photographs.
Of the things they make.
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CMNM
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In the Safer Sex Work classes I teach, I note that one of the more enduring pop fetishes that boy sex workers have found themselves having to negotiate, is the fetish of NMCM. Naked Male, Clothed Male.
The trick wants the boy naked. Duh.
Don’t be fooled. This is a…
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Everyone Up
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this time
you would
demand he
remain accountable
to us
the people
who loved him
who had
saved his
candy ass
how many
times and
of course
he was accountable
to no one
again and we
just ate his
candy ass
as if
it was nectar
from the gods
of…
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Everybody Look What’s Going Down
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Two Black Eyes
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What is the smile about.
Usually, it’s about making you go away.
At first, you have to let it go. It isn’t easy.
I am quite capable of making the mistake that family is the problem.
Family usually IS the problem, but it can be the problem of indifference. Boys…