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Hey I am a SGWM and wish I could meet both Cleve Jones and Sean Penn. Cleve and Penn both was portrayed as my idol. They both need to be recognized. Cleve if you read this you can im me on yahoo at Perscompsvc as I would love to meet you and express my deepest love to you. I want to meet you so bad. Continue all the great work in the LGBTQQ Community. You will always be in my prayer. I would love to just shake your hand just once. You are a hero. I want to one day be remembered as you are. Love.
Harvey Milk's murder was tragic but Sean Penn means what to me. Next time use the space to run a story about something important to those affected by a virus.
I am HIV positive, but I am heterosexual. I do support the right to marry no matter your sexual orientation. What I do not support is using a awards ceremony as a place to be political. Thanks those who gave you the award, your immediate family, and get off stage.
While I applaud the well-deserved Oscar wins and nods, as a 20-year survivor living with AIDS, I'm surprised no one thought to say - Would AIDS still be here if Harvey [Milk] was?!
Alex Henry
Sean Penn, once a homophobe is living proof that people can be educated and bigotry eliminated, he worked hard to win the award so he should be able to say what he likes, it is great that he thanked Cleve, but I agree that someone should have remarked what a different world it would have been had Harvey lived to tackle the way America handled or rather didn't handle the AIDS crisis.
February 26, 2009 • London