I know you're gay, but that's no excuse to be full of AIDS.

I don't talk about my personal life on here that much, but lately I've been a little shaken up over a plague of death and illness that seems to have befallen my family.

In the span of the last year, three of my close relatives have been diagnosed with cancer, stage three or higher. My aunt got ovarian cancer in the fall of last year. Thankfully, she caught it in time to go through chemo, and the doctors say her prognosis looks good.

The same cannot be said of my uncle,...