HeyJaredTracy Mayne
Clinical psychologist, author, LGBTQ and political activist, food columnist, and biotech executive working to bring treatments to people living with rare diseases.
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Be very afraid (opens the original)
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What would you do if your child was grounded, and despite that was sneaking away at night, recruiting other kids into a gang to engage in criminal activity, including breaking into and stealing from your neighbor’s houses, lied about it and actively tried to cover it up? Any good parent would be alarmed. They would likely begin to consider and implement drastic measures to control their child, fearing the criminal activity could escalate.That is literally the behavior the newest AI models are en
Gay midlife (opens the original)
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I met Bob Bergeron when I was 33. I’d returned from France and had a teaching appointment at NYU. To supplement my income I consulted at Gay Men’s Health Crisis, doing HIV prevention with transgender youth in Harlem.Bob was the department admin and the epitome of everything the New York gay community valued: young, chiseled good looks, muscular and graceful, outgoing, witty, on top of every cultural trend.I left GMHC and took a job as the Director of HIV Epidemiology and Surveillance for the Cit
9/11 (opens the original)
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QUEER (opens the original)
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I remember the first time I heard the word queer. My family was watching a talk show and the host was interviewing… I think it was Quentin Crisp, but maybe it was Truman Capote. It was a flamboyant gay man. My mom derisively said, “Queer.” I asked what that was and she explained, “He sleeps with other men. It’s disgusting.”That was my introduction. By the time I was in grade school, the more common slur had evolved to “faggot” or the more succinct “fag”, but queer was still in occasional use. It
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