I'm heartbroken. How can people be so cruel?

[orleans]

135. a number of years ago someone told me an old friend of mine

from 8th & 9th grade (we were as thick as thieves for those years when we were kids) went off to new york in search of an acting/theatre career after he graduated high school and said he died of AIDS a year later.

since that time i've googled his name and can never find anything (obituary or anything else) about him. when you said "it's beyond tragic how many men were just erased in the 80s and early 90s" you aren't kidding.

that prompted me to google again. and today i found an obituary and picture of him in "theatre world 1994-1995 season vol. 51" ) he died in 1994 (which is far later than i thought)

he was 36! (i was told he was much much younger when he died.) he was a playwright! and had two off broadway shows! he worked in cabarets. he had a companion! (who was/is also an actor--and his name was included so i googled again and he appears to still be living and doing theater in ny.) survived by his father, sister, and brother (part of a religious family), there was a photo of him--all grown up (at 36) and beautiful!

it is tragic how many men were just erased.