Who Is Cas Marino?
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Cas Marino is an actor, singer, writer, producer and artist living and playing in New York City. He's best known for his stage work in the NYC International Fringe Festival, acclaimed revivals of "Torch Song Trilogy" and "La Cage Aux Folles", as well as cabaret and independent theater performances in and around the city. His film work can be seen in the upcoming independent shorts "Honey" and "The Call" due out next year, and for more information on his comings and goings, check out the latest info at www.casmarino.com.
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[I would be remiss in my duties as a community spokesman (self-appointed or otherwise), a gay man, and a human being if I did not recognize today as World AIDS Day.
I hope that each of us will reflect on the fact that 30 years since the disease first reached our collective conscious as a growing and terrifying epidemic, women now account for 50% of worldwide infections, and in our own backyard more than half a million US citizens are suffering.
If you think this dreaded (and fortunately avoidable) disease doesn't affect you I compel you to look around more closely and realize it more than likely strikes closer to home than you think.
I urge my friends and readers: Avoid the activities that put you at risk; if you've already found yourself among the number living with it, learn from your experience; whether sick, suffering, surviving or blessedly escaping thus far unharmed, teach -- teach those around you, underneath you, and looking up to you -- how to behave with the self-respect and self-restraint that equal self-preservation; and remember those who are no longer with us whose struggles lead to the power we now have to demand we end this tragedy in this generation without fail.
My love and respect, and my sincere wishes to each and every one of you that we finally learn, as a community of sexually diverse creatures, that we don't have to pay for physical satisfaction with our health and our lives.
- Cas Marino
12/1/2009 ]
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