Social Network for the Dead

Generation You- Project Crysp's forum on inter-generational realtionships.

I always try to imagine what we all are missing because of the deaths of so many wonderful people to AIDS. The impact on our culture is so great but do we even know just how great it is? Take a moment and think about the art that will never be made, the stories that will never be told, the costumes that will never be sewn, the play that will never be staged or the hugs and kisses you’ll never get.

So how do we remember?

Chris Bartlett, has started The Gay History Wiki to reclaim the memories of thousands of people who died from AIDS.

You may remember Chris Bartlett, the director of the Greater Philadelphia LGBT Leadership Initiative who participated in the Project Crysp forum Generation You.

From the New York Times Article:

“So much was lost when those lives were ripped out of the heart of the city,” said Mr. Bartlett. “There were 4,600 men who died from a gay male population of about 26,000” in Philadelphia, he added.

And later in the article:

“At this point, everybody knows the value of participating in a social network that’s alive,” said Mr. Bartlett, who is linked as a friend of Dominic Bash online and whose Twitter address is the name of another gay man who is long gone: @Harveymilk. “I’m making the case that the value people offer to a social network does not disappear when they die,” he said.

[Via Lifelube]

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