Tag Archives: AIDS

Losing an Eye – Isaan – 1999

FREEBIRD INDEED by Peter Nolan Smith

Throughout 1994 the doctors at Boston’s Beth Israel spoke about turning the corner on AIDS and in January my youngest brother had made enough of a comeback for me to contemplate taking a West Coast job offer. “We’re opening a Milk Bar in Beverly Hills.” The original club in New York had been a success […]

GAY BOY by Peter Nolan Smith ON SALE

GAYBOY is a semi-fictional novella of my experiences with gay friends and family. The central character is my baby brother Michael Charles Smith, a gay radio personage in Boston. He like so many of others succumbed to AIDS and GAYBOY is an attempt to reincarnate my younger brother and the good times that exist in […]

The Endangered Money Shot

The term ‘money shot’ originally referred to an expensive FX scene like the car chase in BULLITT, however the XXX industry kidnapped the phrase to describe the moment of male ejaculation preferably on the female lead. Wikipedia reported that Stephen Ziplow’s The Film Maker’s Guide to Pornography (1977), stated, “There are those who believe that […]

To Forgive and Forget – Short Story by Peter Nolan Smith

After my youngest brother died of AIDS, I traveled to the holiest shrines in Asia. The ancient temples did little to salve my grief and I switched to worshipping the high heels of the go-go girls. Vee danced at the Baby A Go-Go in Pattaya. She had one eye. We had an affair. The word […]