![]() ![]() Richard Sedlak, another founding member of Saber, remembers Selwyn as “a very popular and well-respected true leatherman. A third one, Steve Selwyn, was (1984) the founding president of Saber MC and a board member of Pride South Florida. Two of them, Harry Losleben and Larry Markin, were active members of the (Miami) Dade County Coalition for Human Rights (DCCHR) and the weekly news (twn), South Florida’s gay community newspaper. ![]() The first friends I lost to AIDS left us in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson died. Though there are too many to mention, I will try to evoke a few I had the honor to know.ĪIDS came to South Florida relatively late in the mid-1980’s, years after it first struck New York and San Francisco’s gay communities. We who live in South Florida lost our share of talented, creative people, from journalists to human rights advocates. In his Dedication of the book “Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories” (1996), Patrick Merla listed 144 “writers lost to AIDS ” scholars, novelists, poets, playwrights and composers. ![]() One of the many tragic consequences of the AIDS epidemic is the loss of so many creative individuals. ![]()
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