We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

