When Curt and I had dinner at P.F. Chang’s in the Beverly Center, he told me for the first time that he had HIV. We talked about it for hours, comparing notes and everything. I felt closer to him than I ever have before, and I think the feeling was mutual. He broke up with his longtime boyfriend a month earlier, and moved to Long Beach — in part to avoid running into the guy (Jason, I think his name is).<\/p>\n
When we hung out together, Curt talked quite a bit about only going for older men now (Jason was a little younger than Curt, which runs against Curt’s usual pattern). And I think Curt was flirting with me, unless I’m mistaken. And since<\/i> then, Curt has been e-mailing me every few days, just keeping in touch. Of course, I’m not in LA, so nothing’s going to happen. Long distance relationships are out. But if I were<\/i> in LA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Curt and I had dinner at P.F. Chang’s in the Beverly Center, he told me for the first time that he had HIV. We talked about it for hours, comparing notes and everything. I felt closer to him than I ever have before, and I think the feeling was mutual. He broke up with his longtime boyfriend a month earlier, and moved to Long Beach — in part to avoid running into the guy (Jason, I think his name is). When we hung out together, Curt talked quite a bit about only going for older men now (Jason was a little younger than Curt, which runs against Curt’s usual pattern). And I think Curt was flirting with me, unless I’m mistaken. And since then, Curt has been e-mailing me every few days, just keeping in touch. Of course, I’m not in LA, so nothing’s going to happen. Long distance relationships are out. But if I were in LA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2001-2002"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When Curt and I had dinner at P.F. Chang’s in the Beverly Center, he told me for the first time that he had HIV. We talked about it for hours, comparing notes and everything. I felt closer to him than I ever have before, and I think the feeling was mutual. He broke up with…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}