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Stories at Tell Us Something touched on loss, recovery, LGBTQ identity and public health
Summary
Several storytellers at Tell Us Something shared personal narratives about illness, identity, grief and recovery — from a public-health anecdote about testing and treatment to accounts of suicide, relationship loss and reclaiming identity.
Tell Us Something—s evening of short, personal stories included first-person accounts of illness and public-health encounters, struggles with identity and relationships, and experiences of grief and recovery.
One of the night—s storytellers, Hammy, described moving from Montana to work in public health, an early-day clinic visit and subsequent testing: “I have gonorrhea,” he said when recounting how he told colleagues and received testing and treatment; a later test result was…
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