I am FIFTY years old and I survived this a couple of times. It might become quite difficult but what you do in a situation like this is, you survive, you keep going.

I am retired due to disability, and I came up in the 80s when your entire life could be ruined because of rumors about your sexuality.

I am scared shitless, but we got through this before, and WITH a horrifying disease that had no available medicine to keep it in check.

I have been there before. Times might become incredibly tough, but remember, the gays always did everything first, they gays always got there first, the gays are always first. We are fucking tough as nails and fierce as fuck.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is moving forward despite your fear. It's OK to be scared, and we should be scared. But you will live, I will live. It might not be ideal, but life is never ideal. Life is usually tough. But it's life and it's worth living.

It's OK to be scared. But you'll get through this, I'll get through this. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire, and diamonds can only form under intense pressure. So be strong and shine brightly.