Thanks for checking out my story...it was hard to tell. While I love to share my life, I primarily do it through music: brettrobins.com/forgive-yourself
Aww it's my pleasure! THANK YOU! Same to you both, so in love with your new album, all I listen to right now is Play & Rewind and the new Fiona Apple, you are both such an inspiration to me
Wow Brett! That was such a powerful testimony. I think it so important that these oral histories get shared--both our true story & our more "light-hearted/humorous" versions. Thank you for sharing this.
Brett! Thank you so much for sharing your life. I feel like I have gained so much wisdom from your words. Thank you! Pressure creates diamonds Brett! You are a diamond.
Thank you my dear, you have such a way with words, I love that phrase, so grateful you applied it to me - THANK YOU! Over 15 years later I can finally see how this shaped me...hoping he is okay too
We have another thing in common. My wife initially received multiple positive results, though they wound up being false positives, but it helped me get over my irrational fear of HIV. I still have the rational fear, because I would rather not be sick, like anyone else. But it's not a "don't look at me, you're poz" now.
My dear! Thank you for listening, this is one of those stories I've been holding in for a long time, I feel like I can breathe deeper now and see myself more clearly haven't revisited and shared this. So proud of YOU and so happy to be friends
First you are so ridiculously beautiful. Most beautiful face I’ve ever seen. 3 months after I lost my partner in the south tower on 9/11 I got deathly ill with full blown AIDS. My mother was supportive when I came out. But she was an angry RN who was disgusted with me
Thank you for the kind words but more importantly, thank you for sharing your story. I'm so sorry to hear that, it sounds like a trio of awful things hit you very swiftly. I hope you are healthy and have a support now xo
I cant speak on HIV but I have bpd and Jesus... what a dramatic existence. I feel like I constantly carry the wrath of hell inside of me. I want to unleash it on the mortals but I also have a very tender side that I've learned to hide bc ppl just dont care.
I can. Not many people know about my status and for a good reason, which is the stigma it carries. I always knew it was very stigmatised, but prior to my diagnosis I had no idea just how much. It felt like having to come out all over again, only this time it isn't about my sexuality, but the fact I got infected with a virus that people still think can spread through non-sexual physical contact and so they avoid everyone living with hiv. The worse part is that people living with hiv are at a real risk of losing their job, their connections, social status and maybe even their relationship. The idiots screaming "sick bastard" and such aren't capable of really affecting me, but the dangers of people potentioally losing their livelihood because of people's ignorance about the virus is something that keeps me feeling bleak and sometimes very angry at the world. People like me (monitored, taking their meds daily, having an undetectable viral load) are physically incapable of infecting people with the virus through any contact at all. The antiretroviral medicine we take every single day can't kill the virus, but it suppresses the amount of it to such low levels that the virus can't multiply and can't attack the immune system (which is the purpose of this virus). We pose no threat to others and we aren't less healthy either.
All Gay men must have their Gay men friends group and all the LGBT people must do the same 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ It is important to be with people like us, to be around other Gay men and create Gay friendships inside our Gay community between us ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿 In the same way that straight men and women have their women or men friends group. Gay men together forever ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
I send all my love and support to all the LGBT people of the world ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You all are important and very valuable even though we live in a world that makes you all believe otherwise. Remember always be proud of who you are 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 You all make from this world a better place ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 LGBT people are a rainbow of love in a world full of hate, but with difference of our straight partners, we all are united over a same flag 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 The flag of LGBT love ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 And we all must be united against hate, violence, discrimination and intolerance ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 We all are like a great family and we must fight to destroy hate ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Remember, LGBT people is love and love always wins ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 I don't care about your race, nationality, biological gender, health condition, religion or any other condition ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 If you are an LGBT person you have all my love and my support ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You guys are not alone in this fight and all the LGBT people of all over the world needs to understand this messagge, cause just united we will win against hate and we don't have to allow that nothing divide us. Never feel bad of who you are and never allow that this cruel world change who you really are or turn off your light and your shine ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You all born that way and remember LGBT people of all the world, at the end, love always wins ❤🧡💛💚💙
While your attempt to be encouraging, positive, and supportive of gay men IS admirable, well intentioned, and ideal in concept, I'm afraid that unfortunately it's ultimately a disservice to the community in general. It's an unrealistic statement, a wishful thought painted by a broad brush. I'm not proud of that sad reality. It truly pains me to say such. We simply can't afford to give bigots oppurtunity and ammunition. They wouldn't have any hesitation or qualms about taking it. I'm sorry Dubon. 💔
Y cuando muera, le pediré a Dios que cree un reino Gay en el cielo exclusivamente para nosotros los hombres Gays, donde no habra ningun tipo de maldad ni heterosexuales que nos hagan daño, y así los hombres Gays estaremos juntos para toda la eternidad, en este universo y en todos los planos espirituales, tengo ese poder y lo cumpliré 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠 Sé que Dios, en su infinita bondad y amor, no nos lo negará 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠
It was a huge challenge, those first two years after coming out were horrific but they gave me great perspective and empathy and helped make the man I am today xo
Thanks for checking out my story...it was hard to tell.
While I love to share my life, I primarily do it through music: brettrobins.com/forgive-yourself
Wow, thank you so much for sharing your story and your music with us
Aww it's my pleasure! THANK YOU! Same to you both, so in love with your new album, all I listen to right now is Play & Rewind and the new Fiona Apple, you are both such an inspiration to me
Wow Brett! That was such a powerful testimony. I think it so important that these oral histories get shared--both our true story & our more "light-hearted/humorous" versions. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you Richard! I'm honored you think that - I've been keeping this story to myself for so long, I needed to tell it - thank you for listening
Thank you for sharing it with us.......your ability to convey feelings and situation in words and gesture, is so deep and tender.
Thank you my dear Ravi! I'm so grateful you took the time to connect with and listen to my store
Brett! Thank you so much for sharing your life. I feel like I have gained so much wisdom from your words. Thank you! Pressure creates diamonds Brett! You are a diamond.
Thank you my dear, you have such a way with words, I love that phrase, so grateful you applied it to me - THANK YOU! Over 15 years later I can finally see how this shaped me...hoping he is okay too
Brilliant! As is a diamond.
We have another thing in common. My wife initially received multiple positive results, though they wound up being false positives, but it helped me get over my irrational fear of HIV. I still have the rational fear, because I would rather not be sick, like anyone else. But it's not a "don't look at me, you're poz" now.
OMG how terrifying!!! I cannot imagine...I'm so glad they were false but wow, what a scare...
oh brett! thank you for sharing this story. Sending you my love, I'm so proud of everything you've done!
My dear! Thank you for listening, this is one of those stories I've been holding in for a long time, I feel like I can breathe deeper now and see myself more clearly haven't revisited and shared this. So proud of YOU and so happy to be friends
First you are so ridiculously beautiful. Most beautiful face I’ve ever seen. 3 months after I lost my partner in the south tower on 9/11 I got deathly ill with full blown AIDS. My mother was supportive when I came out. But she was an angry RN who was disgusted with me
Thank you for the kind words but more importantly, thank you for sharing your story.
I'm so sorry to hear that, it sounds like a trio of awful things hit you very swiftly. I hope you are healthy and have a support now xo
We Gay men, united are stronger 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠
An UNDISPUTIBLE truth.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈❣️❣️✊️✊️🌟🌟
@@toddbennett7157 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
thank you so much for sharing this ♥️
Thank you for joining my Isabel! I didn't realize how much I needed to get this off my chest
wow what a story, so sorry, to hear it
thank you jerry!
When Gay men empower themselves and unite to each other, they can achieve great and awesome things 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️
AGREED. Absolutely true!
@@toddbennett7157 Gay Power 🏳️🌈🧿✝️
I cant speak on HIV but I have bpd and Jesus... what a dramatic existence. I feel like I constantly carry the wrath of hell inside of me. I want to unleash it on the mortals but I also have a very tender side that I've learned to hide bc ppl just dont care.
I can. Not many people know about my status and for a good reason, which is the stigma it carries. I always knew it was very stigmatised, but prior to my diagnosis I had no idea just how much.
It felt like having to come out all over again, only this time it isn't about my sexuality, but the fact I got infected with a virus that people still think can spread through non-sexual physical contact and so they avoid everyone living with hiv. The worse part is that people living with hiv are at a real risk of losing their job, their connections, social status and maybe even their relationship. The idiots screaming "sick bastard" and such aren't capable of really affecting me, but the dangers of people potentioally losing their livelihood because of people's ignorance about the virus is something that keeps me feeling bleak and sometimes very angry at the world.
People like me (monitored, taking their meds daily, having an undetectable viral load) are physically incapable of infecting people with the virus through any contact at all. The antiretroviral medicine we take every single day can't kill the virus, but it suppresses the amount of it to such low levels that the virus can't multiply and can't attack the immune system (which is the purpose of this virus). We pose no threat to others and we aren't less healthy either.
All Gay men must have their Gay men friends group and all the LGBT people must do the same 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ It is important to be with people like us, to be around other Gay men and create Gay friendships inside our Gay community between us ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿 In the same way that straight men and women have their women or men friends group. Gay men together forever ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
I send all my love and support to all the LGBT people of the world ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You all are important and very valuable even though we live in a world that makes you all believe otherwise. Remember always be proud of who you are 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 You all make from this world a better place ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 LGBT people are a rainbow of love in a world full of hate, but with difference of our straight partners, we all are united over a same flag 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 The flag of LGBT love ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 And we all must be united against hate, violence, discrimination and intolerance ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 We all are like a great family and we must fight to destroy hate ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 Remember, LGBT people is love and love always wins ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 I don't care about your race, nationality, biological gender, health condition, religion or any other condition ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 If you are an LGBT person you have all my love and my support ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You guys are not alone in this fight and all the LGBT people of all over the world needs to understand this messagge, cause just united we will win against hate and we don't have to allow that nothing divide us. Never feel bad of who you are and never allow that this cruel world change who you really are or turn off your light and your shine ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 You all born that way and remember LGBT people of all the world, at the end, love always wins ❤🧡💛💚💙
A Gay man always supports another Gay man 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️
@@dubon9999
That would be IDEAL. Such a wonderful, lovely thought.
@@toddbennett7157 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
It doesn't always happen like that but we SHOULD!!! I certainly try, we need the support, especially from our peers xo
Behind every Gay man, there is an story that made him a warrior 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠
@@dubon9999 oh wow, thank you so much! I love that, it’s true - I think each of us has overcome a lot and has so much strength and love to share 💕
Oh yes, i could twitter a song about that!
@@romainreuter Gay Power 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️
While your attempt to be encouraging, positive, and supportive of gay men IS admirable, well intentioned, and ideal in concept, I'm afraid that unfortunately it's ultimately a disservice to the community in general. It's an unrealistic statement, a wishful thought painted by a broad brush. I'm not proud of that sad reality. It truly pains me to say such. We simply can't afford to give bigots oppurtunity and ammunition. They wouldn't have any hesitation or qualms about taking it. I'm sorry Dubon. 💔
@@dubon9999
Yes! Bravo.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Y cuando muera, le pediré a Dios que cree un reino Gay en el cielo exclusivamente para nosotros los hombres Gays, donde no habra ningun tipo de maldad ni heterosexuales que nos hagan daño, y así los hombres Gays estaremos juntos para toda la eternidad, en este universo y en todos los planos espirituales, tengo ese poder y lo cumpliré 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠 Sé que Dios, en su infinita bondad y amor, no nos lo negará 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠
The best friend of a Gay man is another Gay man 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠 Gay men of all the world together forever 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠🌎🌏🌍
Itu resiko gay .
We Gay men are always allies and friends, never competition or enemies 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️🌠🌠🌠
Yes we are family!
@@romainreuter Gay men of all the world together forever 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🧿🧿🧿✝️✝️✝️
Men have girlfriend not boyfriend/
or like you they have neither
this is not helpful for your journey at all
@@Heyokasireniei468sxso Expound please?
@@Heyokasireniei468sxso Would you care to expound please?
It was a huge challenge, those first two years after coming out were horrific but they gave me great perspective and empathy and helped make the man I am today xo