I strive to take Integral approaches to issues in ordinary life, culture, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. A graduate of Harvard University and The Divinity School at the University of Chicago, I have worked as a writer for more than 15 years. 
Very bad news
July 10th, 2008 by Joe Perez“You have AIDS.”
“AIDS. You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words. On labels. That you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with. They don’t tell you that.”
“No?”
“No. Like all labels, they tell you one thing, and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain. In the pecking order. Not ideology. Not sexual taste. But something much simpler. Clout.” — from “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner
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