THE AIDS MEMORIAL

🇺🇸 “Gone 28 years today! — Jaime Jesus Jimenez (May 18, 1963 - October 27, 1995).

I had just ‘landed’ in New York City in 1989 (illegally) and got a gig as bouncer and bar back at The Bar an infamous queer hangout in the East Village where some scenes of “Cruising” where shot with Al Pacino. I met Jaime on my first shift. It was instant, our connection. Jamie was the first to make a move on me. That fucken smile did it. “Hey Babe, when do you get off work?” he says. “Wait in line, buttercup ...” I replied. That ride lasted five crazy years.

Jaime was the only man I ever fell in love with. He was insanely beautiful, inside and out. The stories are endless but one that I cannot erase is bathing Jamie at his weakest and in the last stages of his illness. That very moment, looking at each other, knowing this was it. I felt something shift in my chest. It was my heart literally aching. Fuck I miss him.”— by Guy Berube @guyberube1962 @lapetitemortgallery #livetotell #celebrationtour #whatisrememberedlives