Wow.

and this...

For 22 years, Jones worked at the Hot Springs AIDS Resource Center’s Tuggle Clinic, and he also served on its board for several years.

“We had people that stepped up,” Jones said. “We had pharmacists in town that were letting people have drugs for nothing. They let them go on credit, just to make sure that somebody had drugs.”

Jones gets emotional when talking about this. He said what hurts him most is not the painful experiences he endured so many years ago, but to see the way the stories have evolved to paint Hot Springs as a place of bigotry and rife with homophobia.

“It’s not my story. It’s a story of Hot Springs,” he said. “The nuns, the Pentecostal ladies that fed us, took care of us. That’s the story that’s being missed. It’s not my story. I’m a nobody. The people who are not being given any herald because of Ruth Burks are those people, the doctors that volunteered to save us.”

“But my town is not this f------ dump hole she’s trying to make it look like,” he said. “Without my town, I would have died.”