Sheldon Katz's
AIDS/LifeCycle Homepage

I'm Helping to End AIDS

From June 1-7, 2008, I'm participating as a volunteer "Roadie" in AIDS/LifeCycle. It's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to make a world of difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.

Help me support the HIV/AIDS-related services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center by giving what you can. We'll keep helping until AIDS and HIV are a thing of the past.

All our lives, as gay or non-gay people, have been affected by this disease to degrees many of us have not yet realized. Government's institutionalized homophobia insured that AIDS, once thought of as "due punishment" and consequently NOT deserving of research funding and education, is an ongoing threat to ALL of our friends and family, including my new grand-nephew and his future descendants.

IT SHOULD NOT HAVE COME TO THIS!

... consequently HOMOPHOBIA = GOVERNMENTAL INACTION = DEATH ... and in my simple mine, I cannot and WILL NOT separate the three. Mad? You bet! ... and it's the one "mad" of my lifetime that I will be buried with -- and, no, surprisingly, I do not have HIV.

I am very disappointed that my doctors have disqualified me from riding but am ENTHUSIASTIC of my being on-the-road support to the actual bicyclists for the complete 7-day, 545 mile event.

Please help me support the HIV/AIDS-related services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center by giving what you can. Last year, the ride brought in over $11,000,000.00 - keeping its record as the largest such event in the U.S.  We'll keep riding until AIDS and HIV are a thing of the past - and perhaps educate the world of the insidious power of prejudice.