LGBT POV

It’s in quiet moments like these when the bonds between Peaceful Warriors are forged. Only those who’ve been tested on the road by the arduous climbs, hitting “the wall” within and pressing on, sometimes alone, sometimes with encouragement from others, but nonetheless understood by a community of fellow travelers on the long, difficult and joyful 545 mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles for AIDS LifeCycle 9. For HIV-positive peddlers Robert Kavanagh, left, and Greg Hill, captured here by photographer Susan Goldman, their triumph is symbolic of other unknown tests they might  also face and endure.

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Dana Miller, a former chair of AIDS Project Los Angeles and producer of their annual Commitment to Life awards, is a columnist for Frontiers In LA, where this piece originally appeared. As this column indicates, he has proposed re-shaping AIDS Inc in the past to make it more efficient. But given this dire economy and the loss of more funding, this might be a good time to jump-start the discussion.