Depending on the perspective, one viewer will look at “Long-Term Survivor” and see the gay experience inscribed within stereotypes of deviance and disease. Another viewer will see graceful images of hope and personal endurance. Still others will identify with remnants of the closet and cultural traditions of concealment. Lastly, there will be those who see nothing but photographs, all enigmatic and none particularly gay. Like beauty, meaning is also in the eye of the beholder.” - Ewing, John, “Of Cocktails and Cockrings, Chuck Ramirez at Artpace,” San Antonio Current, March 25-31, 1999.