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- 1986: 217 T Cells – Part XI of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS Pandemic by Bruce Ward March 29, 2021
- “Years of Living Precariously”. My monthly chronicle of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, in A&U Magazine. Part X 1985/86: “The Worried Well”. Working as a Counselor at the NYC Dept of Health AIDS Hotline, answering frantic calls from frantic citizens living in a city under siege; receiving my own test results for HTLV-III antibodies and a very low t-cell count. February 27, 2021
- “It’s A Sin”: Spotlight Review in A&U Magazine February 18, 2021
- Welcome to my site, “Mental Ward”! To receive automatic email notifications of future posts, please enter your email address in the box provided. (Cell phone users: look for the “follow” box floating at the bottom of your screen.) WordPress members: simply press “follow”. January 27, 2021
- “The Shot Heard Round the World.” 1985. Remembering Rock Hudson’s press conference with Doris Day. “Years of Living Precariously”: Part IX of my ongoing chronicle of the early years of the AIDS pandemic, in A&U Magazine January 25, 2021
- Years of Living Precariously, A&U Magazine, PT. VIII. 1986: First Ray of Hope? January 3, 2021
- Harm Reduction: An Alternative Approach to Managing Addiction, Talkspace Newsletter December 9, 2020
- Years of Living Precariously”, A&U Magazine. Pt. VII. 1985: 745 Healthy Gay Men December 4, 2020
- Remember Their Names: a re-post for World AIDS Day, Dec 1, 2020 December 1, 2020
- “Howard”: A Disney+ Film Review, A&U Magazine November 26, 2020
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Surviving & Thriving: 90 minute interview w/Bruce Ward and Ed Barron, for Rutgers University call-in radio show, “What’s the Tea?”
https://rutgers.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/1_hqgk1jdchttps://rutgers.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/1_hqgk1jdc Reflections from longterm HIV/AIDS survivors
Years of Living Precariously, pt VI: High Flight. A&U Magazine
“The flight attendant brought me a cup of warm pineapple juice and I cried. I cried because I was in the pilot’s hands and he had shared a bit of beauty with me and I couldn’t go back I could never go back and hovering in this pocket of air I knew that my life would never be the same.” Continue reading
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Years of Living Precariously, A&U Magazine, September, 2020 Part V, “In An Instant” – the exact moment of contact, Honolulu, August 1984
(click on link for chapter) I was conscious of it all, conscious of my desire, conscious of the risk, aware of his body on top of me, as if I were floating above myself, observing the moment when my life … Continue reading
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“Not Our First Pandemic”: The View From A Long-Term HIV Survivor, Talkspace Newsletter
Not Our First Pandemic: The View From a Long-Term HIV Survivor byBruce Ward Jun 23, 2020 6 minute read I acquired the virus we now know as HIV in 1984, three years after the first AIDS cases were reported in … Continue reading
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“Years of Living Precariously”, A&U Magazine, Part IV: Someone Like Me. Honolulu, 1984
(click on link for chapter) I knew the cruising routine well—how to appear just slightly aloof, to seem interested enough to pique curiosity in the one I chose, but not so interested that I appeared desperate. I knew the expression: … Continue reading
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“Years of Living Precariously”, A&U magazine. Part III. 1983: The Buddy System. Becoming a volunteer “buddy” at GMHC
(click on link for chapter) The buddy to whom I was assigned was named Bill, a tall, lanky Southerner who lived in the then-scummy neighborhood known as Chelsea, a rather bleak, run-down, precarious area, far removed from the more fashionable … Continue reading
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“Years of Living Precariously”, A&U magazine. Part II: 1,112 and Counting”. 1983: Larry Kramer’s call-to-action
Rumor had it that a common factor among those getting ill was the use of poppers and having multiple partners at the Baths. I didn’t like “poppers,”… I had been to the Baths only three times. I did not wear … Continue reading
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“The Years of Living Precariously”, my monthly column in A&U Magazine, chronicling the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Part I. 1980: “Last Dance”
(click on link for chapter) The disco ball above the small, cramped dance floor spins above the sweating, humping, happy men. And there is a flag-dancer on the edge of the crowd, turning and twisting his colored flags. And the … Continue reading
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Announcement as drama editor at A&U magazine, and creating a new monthly series, “The Years of Living Precariously”.
A&U Announces New Drama Editor, Bruce Ward
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