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BringChange2Mind.orgEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
More than a few tears of understanding, and being understood, came to my eyes tonight as I watched NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams featured a report on an initiative of Glenn Close called Bring Change 2 mind. Ms. Close and her sister Jessie, who is bipolar, were part of an amazing public service announcement shot at [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV YouTube activism autobiography bipolar bipolar II health-care mental health stigma Glenn Close Jessie Close Source Type: blogs

Unelected Mike Duffy’s shameful disrespect for NDP’s elected MP Peter StofferEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
London-area Liberal MP Glen Pearson rightly calls out Mike Duffy in his blog for Duff’s disrespectful and mean-spirited views on NDP Member of Parliament Peter Stoffer. I say shame on you Duff you flabby, blabby embarrassing symbol of everything that is wrong with the Senate. (Glen Pearson uses parliamentary tact. I choose not to do [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 7, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: media politics Conservative Senator Glen Pearson Mike Duffy Peter Stoffer Source Type: blogs

Would you help? Cutting and pasting is mostly all that’s required!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Except for the first paragraph, which I wrote, this letter is available for you to cut and paste here at http://www.essentialmedicine.org/add-your-voice/camr/ Don’t worry about the October 23 deadline having passed. The bill is only at the committee stage. Here’s my letter: Dear Legislator, As a Canadian living with HIV for the last 20 years I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 30, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime Planet Earth has AIDS activism health-care human rights politics social justice Source Type: blogs

A milestoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On my facebook page this morning I wrote, “Kenn Chaplin is very grateful for all the 50th birthday greetings and to have reached such a milestone without doing myself too much irreparable harm.” It could have been much different. As a teenager I thought I wouldn’t live to see forty, nor would I want to. When diagnosed with [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 27, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography family health-care personal journal spirituality writing Source Type: blogs

Old pictures tell only a fraction of the storiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thomas Butler was born in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario in 1826, one of nine children of 1819-1820 Irish immigrants John Butler and Alice Warren. While six of his siblings married Warren cousins, in 1852 Thomas Butler married Dorcas Radford, born in 1835, also in Bathurst Township. That’s their picture, taken in 1909! According to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 16, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Perth autobiography family genealogy photography writing Barker Burke Butler Chaplin McKay Warren Source Type: blogs

1909 picture only tells a fraction of the storyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thomas Butler was born in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario in 1826, one of nine children of 1819-1820 Irish immigrants John Butler and Alice Warren. In 1852 he married Dorcas Radford, born in 1835, also in Bathurst Township. That’s their picture, taken in 1909! According to a 1974 family history Barker and Warren Families from [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 16, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Perth autobiography family genealogy photography writing Barker Burke Butler Chaplin McKay Warren Source Type: blogs

On the late David Dewees and trial by sensationalist mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anyone who knows me, and my story, knows that I have no tolerance for child abuse. Nothing so horrible was alleged in the case of the late David Dewees. While no doubt serious the charges, which led to him taking his own life long before they would go to court, seemed to have [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: family grief media youth CTV Toronto David Dewees Fairview Mall (St. Catharines) washroom arrests Global TV News Jarvis Collegiate Institute John Musselman Lama Nicolas media sensationalism Toronto Mendelssohn Choirs Source Type: blogs

Ice cream (it melts out in the open!)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With the encouragement of Eileen (see her comment after the original “Ice Cream” post) I have edited the story down to the following: Ice cream Two of my favorite places for ice cream were about one hundred-fifty miles apart – one in Valleyfield, Québec, the other in Glen Tay, Ontario where Dad came from and not far [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 29, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography writing Source Type: blogs

Ice creamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(second draft) Ice cream There didn’t need to be a special occasion for us to go for ice cream when I was a kid. The very act of going was a special occasion. Two shops stand out in my memory, one in Valleyfield, Québec where we lived, the other in Glen Tay, Ontario where Dad [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 28, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography writing youth Source Type: blogs

What makes a good teacher?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Another victim of my elementary school teacher-as-nemesis, Carl Glenn, has been in contact with me and I can’t describe the sense of validation I feel. It’s like having a friend in my corner, even if we were years apart. (I am also hoping he can jog a few memories about some of the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 25, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography child abuse childhood trauma mental illness personal journal youth Carl Glenn Chateauguay Valley Regional High School Gault School Source Type: blogs

Would I dare – for the Stephen Lewis Foundation? Maybe, with some ideas!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After President Obama’s lively, wide-ranging chat with David Letterman Monday it was a treat to watch as another President, Bill Clinton, occupied the guest chair on Tuesday. Clinton is in New York for the international gathering of his Clinton Global Initiative which he times to coincide with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 23, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Stephen Lewis activism Kenn's 50th birthday Stephen Lewis Foundation A Dare to Remember Source Type: blogs

Thousands rally in Thunder Bay for Jake Raynard, who speaks out on gay-bashingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thousands, the numbers always vary, gathered in Waverly Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Port Arthur district Friday to support the victim of a horrendous beating a week ago. Earlier, Jake Raynard had released this video statement via YouTube: Like many LGBT youth Jake has lived in larger cities such as Toronto where being different, while not always [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube activism coming out of the closet queer sexual orientation social justice stigma youth Jake Raynard Source Type: blogs

Please support me in AIDS Walk NiagaraEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am going out on a limb and making a commitment to participating in AIDS Walk Niagara on Sunday, September 20. This was my home-base, if not always my stomping grounds, through my twenties. The link is to AIDS Niagara’s page on the Canada Helps page. Otherwise you can pay me by cash or cheque. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV activism health-care AIDS Niagara Source Type: blogs

Probably more than six degrees of separationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a precedent-setting case,a Quebec judge has sentenced a serial drunk driver to life in prison. Aside from the obvious ‘but for the grace of God, there go I’ the court house in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec – where sentencing took place on Wednesday – faces the east side of a park which my very first place of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Québec autobiography personal journal drunk driving Hudson QC recidivism Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Source Type: blogs

To: Bipolar BeatEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Re: Which Came First – Substance Abuse or Bipolar Disorder? I’m so happy to have come across this site, particularly this article, as I checked out different areas of my news reader. I’ve been in and out of recovery (from alcohol abuse mostly) for about 20 years, now just two-and-a-quarter years sober again. Not too long before [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography bipolar bipolar II mental health mental illness recovery stigma Source Type: blogs

Autumn Writing GroupEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following three successful summer workshops seventeen participants, including facilitators Linda Dawn and me, have signed up for the fall writing group starting 15 September and continuing most Tuesdays thereafter through 8 December from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. You do not need to have attended the workshops to join us nor are you required to commit [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 10, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography creative arts personal journal writing Toronto weekly writing group Source Type: blogs

Canadian International Air Show sold out all weekend – many downtown residents unimpressedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As Toronto continues to welcome more and more residents to downtown high-rises and neighbourhoods the hazards and inconveniences of the Canadian International Air Show mount exponentially – to which the show responds, trumpeting the economic benefits. Note the sponsors. It is one thing to honour grandfathers and great-grandfathers with fly-pasts of World War II planes, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 7, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Toronto Centre activism environment pollution Canadian International Air Show Canadian National Exhibition Source Type: blogs

“Spiritus contra spiritum” – an old favouriteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Even though I related to them both in isolation, until today I had never made a personal connection between “spiritus contra spiritum” and one of my favourite psalms. It’s as if I am the last to find out (in my agnostic theist sort of way). (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 6, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography mental health recovery spirituality Bill W. Carl Jung Source Type: blogs

The funniest ten minutes of my Friday I won’t get backEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Keith Olbermann Refutes Glenn Beck’s “Communist” Rockefeller Center After a meeting with his few remaining advertisers and a visit to a psychiatrist – barring an immediate committal – Glenn Beck might want to try “90 in 90″! (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 4, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Keith Olbermann YouTube corporations humour media social conservatives Glenn Beck Source Type: blogs

Back to school jitters, terror – call it what you willEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Classes don’t resume until after Labour Day, and that doesn’t affect me any more, but the first of September has a Labour Day feel to it and I can’t help thinking about how privately frightening the first day back always seemed. I say ‘privately’ because I had this 1960s idea that my parents would not [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - September 1, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography childhood trauma coming out of the closet sexual orientation youth Source Type: blogs

To the Editor, Perth CourierEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thanks for your article on Andrea Raymond’s work. I look forward to a renewed commitment to heritage conservation in Perth in the spirit of Glenn Crain and others. During a recent picture-taking tour of the always photogenic downtown I noticed that the Scotiabank branch on Foster Street (pictured) stands out for [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 31, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Perth activism architectural heritage Source Type: blogs

Suburbia encroaches on wildlife – not the other way aroundEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As I watched this very interesting report on The National the other night I was reminded of a wildlife corridor project a lot closer to home, whether I consider home to be Toronto, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec or Perth, Ontario. It’s called A2A – Algonquin to Adirondacks Conservation Association. A look at the map on the website [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 28, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: climate change environment Algonquin to Adirondacks (A2A) ecoPerth Foley Mountain Ontario Westport Ontario Source Type: blogs

“You seem like a good fit for the (therapy) group.” Cue pin-drop!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
During an intake interview for a therapy group I was stopped cold by the question, “Do you have a best friend?” This was asked in the context of establishing what existing supports I had, past relationships, etc. Perfectly understandable. I was absolutely stuck to name someone and, equally telling perhaps, I was very surprised [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 28, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography personal journal spirituality Source Type: blogs

Sen. Kennedy, Facebook and looking back fondlyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ted Kennedy Tribute: 2008 DNC Convention in Denver Over the din of commentators, warming their robotic hands against the barely dead Ted Kennedy, and please read this report on his pioneering political fights against AIDS, I have been trying to remember the 1980s with a little more precision than is usually called for. See thanks to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 26, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Craig Chaplin United Church of Canada YouTube autobiography grief homosexuality mental health personal journal same-sex marriage youth Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy St. Catharines Source Type: blogs

Singing self-acceptanceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This was a therapy day so, as the subject of self-love came up, I did a search for Jai Michael Josephs’ song “I Love Myself the Way I Am”, which was included on an early Louise Hay tape I bought in the late 1980s. I’ll paste the lyrics below the YouTube recording by Steve [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 6, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV YouTube autobiography grief life and death music poetry Mary Oliver Source Type: blogs

Simon & Garfunkel perform “Mrs. Robinson” from “The Graduate”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We already had a couple Simon & Garfunkel records in our collection when a family friend took Mom and Dad to see “The Graduate” those many summers ago. I recall Mom, whose idea of a good movie is a big ol’ musical, being a little surprised at what the censors nowadays might call “mature [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 26, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube family music youth Source Type: blogs

Rain – we can’t do anything about it, and there’s no stopping the complainingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have you ever seen the rain? I remember Craig had this on a 45 rpm when we were teenagers. While I became too tall for his hand-me-down clothes I was always happy if he passed along, or at least shared, his records! (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 26, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube autobiography family youth Source Type: blogs

Enough with the “honour killings”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a gay man with HIV/AIDS I know of my condemned standing within the hard-line Islamist, Jewish and Christianist faiths. (I’m taking my chances, and feeling fine thanks, with liberal spirituality.) What no one, however, whether in Canada or anywhere else in the world should tolerate is paternalistic violence and murder – almost always exclusively [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 24, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Human Rights Sharia activism child abuse family violence fundamentalism gender honorcide sexual orientation social conservatives spousal abuse stigma Linda Ahmed Raheel Raza Tarek Fatah Source Type: blogs

Raging like our lives depend on it – because sometimes they do!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The vote, 52-1, was not even close but Manhattan New York State Senator Tom Duane took no chances after rival Republicans killed two of his bills earlier in the day. He unleashed this impassioned speech, with long pauses and end-of-phrase shouts – in the state legislature in Albany, speaking in favour of capping subsidized [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 21, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV YouTube activism autobiography grief life and death politics social justice NYS Sen. Tom Duane Source Type: blogs

“How does it feel to be gay?” (Makes you go “Hmmm…”)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: My journey with AIDS - July 21, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube coming out of the closet family homosexuality sexual orientation Source Type: blogs

Speech by Stephen Lewis, co-Director, AIDS-Free World, to the International AIDS Society Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention – Cape Town, South Africa, July 19, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In my younger days, decades upon decades ago, we were consumed by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The forces of darkness, East and West, seemed in the ascendance. The Doomsday clock inched its way to midnight. And then there arose, across a spectrum ranging from the scientists and engineers writing in the Bulletin of Atomic [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 20, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Human Rights Stephen Lewis activism gender politics public health sexual orientation stigma Source Type: blogs

40 years ago this week on a Marconi black and white TVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The successful launch (finally) of the latest Shuttle astronauts comes on the eve of a very significant date in the American space program. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. About three months shy of my tenth birthday, between swims and bonfires at my aunt and uncle’s rental cottages [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 16, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube autobiography family Source Type: blogs

Updated (with link to video): John Marks reminds me of my struggles with faith – and that we don’t have to be rightEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a recent video of author John Marks being interviewed on The Bully Pulpit. It’s a great way (if you’ll take the 45 minutes or so to watch) to get a sense of where he’s coming from in his book and why I was so fascinated by it. The Bully! Pulpit Show: John Marks from [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 14, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV United Church of Canada YouTube activism autobiography blog therapy coming out of the closet family homosexuality mental health personal journal politics social conservatives social justice spirituality Christian Source Type: blogs

For Kim’s sonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I met her at a meeting probably eleven or twelve years ago. We instantly connected because of our shared status as HIV-positive people in recovery. I adopted the runt of a litter of kittens. Emma is with me to this day. During a subsequent relapse Kim became pregnant but quickly came back to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 6, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Drug overdose family grief life and death recovery Source Type: blogs

PM cuts through the stigma of depression, suicideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The text of the Prime Minister’s remarks at the funeral of Member of Parliament Dave Batters in Regina Saturday. Denise, members of the Batters family, ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered together today to remember Dave, to lament his passing, and to comfort each other. Dave held a place in all our hearts. To his wife and family, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: mental health mental illness stigma Dave Batters Source Type: blogs

The richness of life with friendsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It was, as I said on my facebook page, an amazing night of remembering, crying and healing at the 25th Annual Candlelight AIDS Vigil. A true sign of the richness of my life is that I didn’t get the chance to hug everybody that I knew there. Maybe it was the fact that it was the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 26, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV activism blog therapy grief music poetry recovery The 519 Church Street Community Centre Toronto AIDS Memorial Source Type: blogs

Stonewall, Judy Garland “myth understood?”, and the birth of a movementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An interesting look back at the Stonewall Riots in New York 40 years ago – what would become known as the start of the gay liberation movement. And, having come out of the closet myself in a highly-politicized time in Toronto, I enjoyed this look back at the year after Stonewall – courtesy of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 25, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Human Rights YouTube activism coming out of the closet homosexuality politics sexual orientation social justice Source Type: blogs

You say Appalachia, I say Argentina…Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mark Sanford, it turns out, did not get his hiking boots dusty along the Appalachian Trail – as his staff had been telling the media while he was AWOL. He was doing the dirty down in South America. Hiking? Yes, hiking a skirt. The Republicans and their ‘family values’ have another poster boy [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 24, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube activism politics sexual orientation social conservatives DOMA Little Britain South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford Source Type: blogs

From About.com: Bipolar disorder – Called manic depression or bipolar disorder stigma persistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An article arrived in my “in” box today which underlined for me one of the persistent difficulties in living with mental illness – stigma. Stigma interests me a great deal, living as I am with HIV/AIDS, too. I almost feel defensive in talking about my bipolar II condition, particularly around some other recovering alcoholics who look skeptical [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 23, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV bipolar bipolar II health-care mental health mental illness recovery stigma Source Type: blogs

Bonne fête Québec!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It used to be called la Fête de Saint Jean-Baptiste, back when the people of Québec were much more loyal to the Roman Catholic Church, John the Baptist being the province’s patron saint. As a youngster, I’d guess six years old or less, I remember seeing a lot of nuns around (Salaberry-de-) Valleyfield, dressed in the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 23, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Montréal Québec YouTube autobiography politics Source Type: blogs

Not the Niagara of my youth (and that’s a relief!)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
l have been waxing somewhat less than nostalgic as I’ve learned how much progress has been made in the LGBTTQQ2S community in Niagara, where I went to college and worked through the 1980s. It began as I read the profile of a remarkable young guy, Matthew Cutler, being honoured by Pride Toronto for “excellence in youth [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 22, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV activism homosexuality queer sexual orientation youth AIDS Niagara CFBU Matthew Cutler Niagara Pride Support Services OUTniagara PFLAG St. Catharines Source Type: blogs

Summer fun writing blitzEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No cottage? No vacation? Want something different to do this summer? Linda Dawn Pettigrew and I will be offering three writing events at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (427 Bloor St. W., west of Spadina, Toronto.) The first, July 14, will introduce short, enjoyable writing activities on the topic of Identity. The second will explore Gratitude, on [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: writing Source Type: blogs

Bread passed along for my journeyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: autobiography mental health poetry Mary Oliver Source Type: blogs

AIDS Vigil to mark its 25th yearEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The AIDS Memorial Cawthra Square Park, Toronto Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 9:00PM Hosted by Quinn Johnston, Billy Newton-Davis, Shari Margolese For More Information | 416.392.6878 Ext 4012 | www.the519.org The public is invited to attend the 25th Anniversary of the annual AIDS Candlelight Vigil, on Thursday evening, June 25, 2009, at 9:00 p.m.at the AIDS Memorial in Cawthra Park. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 12, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV activism grief AIDS Memorial Church Street Community Centre The 519 Toronto Source Type: blogs

President Obama takes support of gays for granted – shame!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What a disappointment. An otherwise principled guy (so many of us thought) sides with the ball-scratchers and Prop 8-backers who voted for him. Will it take multiple trips to any number of combinations of Supreme Court Justices of the future to wrest equality from the government, as it did here in Canada? I hope not. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: Barack Obama Human Rights YouTube activism homosexuality politics - USA social justice Source Type: blogs

“Sex With Ducks” creators interviewed; Robertson ‘clarifies’ comments that started it allEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CNN’s Jeanne Moos finds out that Pat Robertson was not talking about gay marriage in his reference to ducks a while ago. He was talking against the Mathew Shepard hate crimes bill that extended that legislation to include crimes of violence involving sexual orientation. Gee thanks, Pat, that makes it much better! [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 9, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube activism fundamentalism homosexuality humour politics - USA same-sex marriage sexual orientation social conservatives Source Type: blogs

I answer CP24’s question, “What does Pride mean to you?”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Human Rights activism autobiography family homosexuality media personal journal recovery sexual orientation spirituality Source Type: blogs

PrideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CP24 asks “What does Pride mean to you?” Pride this year celebrates the 40th anniversary of what most consider to be the biggest spark to the gay rights movement, the Stonewall Riots in New York. I was too young for that to have meant anything to me at the time but I well remember Toronto’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 5, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: AIDS and HIV Human Rights activism autobiography family homosexuality media personal journal recovery sexual orientation spirituality Source Type: blogs

Living in the east on west coast timeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At just after 1 a.m. EDST I am now contemplating hauling ass to my bed, although any number of distractions could keep me from there. I see my nearly new therapist for the second time Thursday and, if last week is anything to go by, I will be glad it’s a late afternoon appointment. A [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 4, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: bipolar music Source Type: blogs

“Oops” is practically the same in either French or English (now with video!)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So I’m on the computer this morning, the TV is on in the other room, when all of a sudden I hear a translator, working for either Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan or CBC Newsworld, break the cardinal rule of microphones. After translating a few words of the Minister’s laboured French, she yelled, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 1, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Chaplin Tags: YouTube politics CBC Newsworld expletive Source Type: blogs