Mark Morrisroe Photography and A Heavy Load To Bear

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[insomniatrix]

I am here.

[kdotdammit]

Thank you my dear Clare. I'm here for you too.

[duccio]

I lost several of my painting stretcher customers who lived in the Castro around '86 or so, and two really good friends who were in the Early Music scene in SF. One of them was Ken Johnson who went to school the same place I had, only a few years earlier. He ran a store called Musica Antiqua at California near Fillmore. I was in the shop visiting with him the day we heard the horrible news about Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk

[kdotdammit]

That whole era is so visceral for me. The die off was so vast. I wrote about it in my AIDS piece many moons ago, going to visit my grandmother in the hospital and the whole place overflowing with the young and dying. And throughout it all, Reagan's hideous mug on the television . . .

[bellakara]

Great post - and I really like those photos.

[kdotdammit]

Thank you so much for reading and liking and being here! I like the photos very much. They make me want to find my old polaroid cameras.