Hope.
When I first came to the valley after years of stalking and being followed, I had heard the stories of desolation and intentional infection from many people outside of the area. What use to be the community that you came to have a good time, had turned into where you come with something and leave with nothing...but an arrest record and an empty bank account.
Palm Springs, California...remote neural capital of the United States where more than 500 men and women are "hearing voices" and have been arrested by police officers since the mid 1980's has become the place for a few lost generations of gay men and women. If you were lucky enough to escape the implantation and infection...your friends didn't. I can clearly recall the stories that I heard all the way in San Diego. I knew that someone or some group was responsible for luring gay men to a place where they were knocked out and infected with HIV. At the time, I didn't realize that I was already one of these people.
The choice to return to this area was out of necessity. I'd resign my job only a few months after returning in an effort to understand and find out what was going on with the gay community under siege in the area that I grew up in. Perhaps I was naive to the concept of stalking as a group growing up. Perhaps I just never believed that people could be so cruel. I certainly didn't know about remote neural monitoring...that was something that people in Texas were developing...using it as a parlour trick to show friends. What was once a joke...became something of an epidemic while I was being followed elsewhere.
I certainly knew I was being followed, but I had no idea what was going on in Palm Springs. What I witnessed was a system of thug punk pain in the ass gay men that would enter a home with the sole purpose of robbing someone...stealing from them and causing a scene. It became so commonplace that I always knew when it would happen...and I would leave. Two or three generations of gay men and women are now lost...no hope...no opportunity and saddled with criminal records that keep them enslaved into a system that has no place for gay men...or women. It must have taken the entire thirty years to come up with something so completely against us that it will now take so much more time to unravel.
What is it going to take to rebuild the lives of the victims of this crime?
What should the punishment be for the people that benefitted from it?
There is no clear winner here...just a bunch of people left to scratch their heads and wonder why would anyone do such a horrible thing for such puny reasons?
The lost generations of gays in Palm Springs are without hope and opportunity...what are we doing to give that back?
