Thank You for Being a Friend...

So during our lunch break at rehearsal today I was struck with the awful news that Bea Arthur had passed away, I was immensely saddened by the news as she has played many different roles in my life. Of course she was a source of laughter on the amazing Golden Girls, but I had been listening to her on the album of the original cast album of Mame with the legendary Angela Lansbury.

But one big reason she holds such meaning to me in my life is because I saw her on Broadway, in her one woman show Bea Arthur on Broadway on the day that I was diagnosed HIV positive, and the tickets to the show were supposed to be a valentine's day present for my boyfriend Michael, along with my HIV results (boy my cracked out fucked up head was really something, wasn't it!?). But the son of a bitch never showed for the show and I had to get my good friend Fabi to RUN downtown to join me at the theater. I totally balled my eyes out during intermission and after the show because I had been totally dissed by this man I loved, and who I thought loved me after all I had put myself through for him. Oh well, I have definitely grown a lot since then, and know that I deserve better than that for myself. Anyway Bea Arthur was a great actress, and she brought me such joy at so many low points in my life, I am truly grateful to her, and hope that she is in a better place. I will miss her dearly

I leave you with this fierce clip of her and Angela at the Tony's!