Tim Holbrook
@holbrookpatents.bsky.social
Provost’s Professor & Robert B. Yegge Distinguished Professor in Law, U of Denver Sturm College of Law. Intellectual Property and LGBTQ+ rights expert. Fighting advanced prostate cancer. https://www.law.du.edu/about/people/tim-holbrook
Radiation is done! 6.5 weeks, 5 days/week 33 sessions. Hard to explain my emotions—joy, relief, thankfulness all rolled into one. Because hormone therapy has been successful, we don’t know yet if there is “no evidence of disease” (remission). Hormones 6-12 more months, & then we keep a watchful eye.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Radiation is done! 6.5 weeks, 5 days/week 33 sessions. Hard to explain my emotions—joy, relief, thankfulness all rolled into one. Because hormone therapy has been successful, we don’t know yet if there is “no evidence of disease” (remission). Hormones 6-12 more months, & then we keep a watchful eye.
Last substantive day of class for the semester. (I have a review session on Nov. 19). I pre-scheduled makeup classes in the event I couldn’t teach due to my treatments. Fortunately that didn’t happen! It was a great Introduction to IP class!
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Last substantive day of class for the semester. (I have a review session on Nov. 19). I pre-scheduled makeup classes in the event I couldn’t teach due to my treatments. Fortunately that didn’t happen! It was a great Introduction to IP class!
AM bike ride-great for mental and physical health. Radiation is starting to cause some fatigue and GI issues….
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
AM bike ride-great for mental and physical health. Radiation is starting to cause some fatigue and GI issues….
First radiation treatment done. Now only 30ish more! Five days a week until November 20.
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
First radiation treatment done. Now only 30ish more! Five days a week until November 20.
SCOTUS will hear Chiles v. Salazar, addressing whether CO's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. My commentary is here: theconversation.com/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court to decide if Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy violates free speech
If conversion therapy is deemed speech, then bans on it likely will fall.
theconversation.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
SCOTUS will hear Chiles v. Salazar, addressing whether CO's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. My commentary is here: theconversation.com/supreme-cour...
I’ve opted to have radiation now instead of waiting and seeing if my cancer returns after I end hormone therapy. 5 days a week from Oct. 6-Nov. 20. 30 min. I’ll stay on hormones until mid-2026. We are in the mountains to relax and see the leaves this weekend. A nice respite before treatment begins.
September 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I’ve opted to have radiation now instead of waiting and seeing if my cancer returns after I end hormone therapy. 5 days a week from Oct. 6-Nov. 20. 30 min. I’ll stay on hormones until mid-2026. We are in the mountains to relax and see the leaves this weekend. A nice respite before treatment begins.
Getting back in biking shape!
September 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Getting back in biking shape!
I was supposed to be arriving on the Outer Banks to join my family on vacation today. Thanks Hurricane Erin! Instead, I did a 40 mile bike ride and felt great! Plenty of my favorite flowers along the path. 🌻
August 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I was supposed to be arriving on the Outer Banks to join my family on vacation today. Thanks Hurricane Erin! Instead, I did a 40 mile bike ride and felt great! Plenty of my favorite flowers along the path. 🌻
First ride into the law school for the new academic year … and post-surgery. I also have a new office with west facing views!
August 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
First ride into the law school for the new academic year … and post-surgery. I also have a new office with west facing views!
Reunion with my Chicago volleyball friends for Market Days! We live all over the country now, and my heart is full getting to spend time with these amazing people! ❤️
August 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reunion with my Chicago volleyball friends for Market Days! We live all over the country now, and my heart is full getting to spend time with these amazing people! ❤️
Spent the last 2.5 weeks in Southern Africa. Cape Town, Celebrated our 20th anniversary at the Cape of Good Hope, Victoria Falls, and safaris in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Amazing! Even saw two leopards and two giraffes mating!
July 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Spent the last 2.5 weeks in Southern Africa. Cape Town, Celebrated our 20th anniversary at the Cape of Good Hope, Victoria Falls, and safaris in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Amazing! Even saw two leopards and two giraffes mating!
My hair is thinning & falling out. My body continues to change from surgery & hormone therapy. Today is a tough day. Then I tell myself, “bitch, you’ve got cancer!” This body is doing everything it can to survive cancer. Embrace & celebrate every “flaw”! Ellen Bass’s poem capture’s this experience.
June 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My hair is thinning & falling out. My body continues to change from surgery & hormone therapy. Today is a tough day. Then I tell myself, “bitch, you’ve got cancer!” This body is doing everything it can to survive cancer. Embrace & celebrate every “flaw”! Ellen Bass’s poem capture’s this experience.
A few days in Durango with my college roommate and dear friend.
May 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A few days in Durango with my college roommate and dear friend.
Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis hit me given my own. While to see the educational component in the reporting, I thought it was antiseptic & did not capture what it really is to go through these treatments. I discuss my experience in my latest op-ed for US News: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis hit me given my own. While to see the educational component in the reporting, I thought it was antiseptic & did not capture what it really is to go through these treatments. I discuss my experience in my latest op-ed for US News: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
A week ago, my catheter came out. The previous two setbacks arose about a week after the catheter came out. My walk started with anxiety attacks fueled by hot flashes. I grabbed a coffee, stood by the river, & walked to a place of gratefulness and optimism that it will be different this time.
May 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A week ago, my catheter came out. The previous two setbacks arose about a week after the catheter came out. My walk started with anxiety attacks fueled by hot flashes. I grabbed a coffee, stood by the river, & walked to a place of gratefulness and optimism that it will be different this time.
Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs
theconversation.com/cutting-hiv-...
theconversation.com/cutting-hiv-...
Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs
Withdrawing or reducing aid has immediate and often fatal effects − not only for the countries receiving aid but for people around the globe.
theconversation.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs
theconversation.com/cutting-hiv-...
theconversation.com/cutting-hiv-...
We had so much fun at the Air Supply concert last night! Sound check, Q&A, meet and greet…and then we were on stage for the first three songs! 🫠 They sound great and couldn’t have been nicer. We were smiling ear-to-ear the entire night!
May 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We had so much fun at the Air Supply concert last night! Sound check, Q&A, meet and greet…and then we were on stage for the first three songs! 🫠 They sound great and couldn’t have been nicer. We were smiling ear-to-ear the entire night!
The leak healed and the catheter is out!
I’ll be wrapped in bubble wrap for the next month. 🤪🤣 (Nothing more than walking for four weeks).
I’ll be wrapped in bubble wrap for the next month. 🤪🤣 (Nothing more than walking for four weeks).
May 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The leak healed and the catheter is out!
I’ll be wrapped in bubble wrap for the next month. 🤪🤣 (Nothing more than walking for four weeks).
I’ll be wrapped in bubble wrap for the next month. 🤪🤣 (Nothing more than walking for four weeks).
A few shots from my beautiful niece’s wedding.
May 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A few shots from my beautiful niece’s wedding.
Update: I felt fluid building in my abdomen on Friday & we went to the ER on Saturday. Likely another internal bladder leak. Fortunately we went before there was pain. Catheter is back in until Friday of next week at the earliest if a scan confirms the hole healed. #cancersucks
May 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Update: I felt fluid building in my abdomen on Friday & we went to the ER on Saturday. Likely another internal bladder leak. Fortunately we went before there was pain. Catheter is back in until Friday of next week at the earliest if a scan confirms the hole healed. #cancersucks
I am catheter free! The leak healed up, and the catheter came out Thursday. I shouldn’t need radiation in the fall. I’ll finish my surgery recovery and be on hormones for 8-12 mos. Then we’ll know if I’m in remission. This should start a less chaotic period for us. Some normalcy will be nice!
April 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am catheter free! The leak healed up, and the catheter came out Thursday. I shouldn’t need radiation in the fall. I’ll finish my surgery recovery and be on hormones for 8-12 mos. Then we’ll know if I’m in remission. This should start a less chaotic period for us. Some normalcy will be nice!
My op-ed is now up at US News. I explain how my cancer diagnosis made even more salient to me the increasing threat to marriage equality that we currently face, with nine states introducing resolutions urging that Obergefell be overruled by the Supreme Court.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My op-ed is now up at US News. I explain how my cancer diagnosis made even more salient to me the increasing threat to marriage equality that we currently face, with nine states introducing resolutions urging that Obergefell be overruled by the Supreme Court.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
Hormone therapy is making my facial hair lighten and fall out, so I decided to go clean-shaven for the first time since 2018. Namon has filed a missing persons report for my chin. 🤣 Photos: today, a few weeks ago when side effect was kicking in, and before hormone therapy.
April 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hormone therapy is making my facial hair lighten and fall out, so I decided to go clean-shaven for the first time since 2018. Namon has filed a missing persons report for my chin. 🤣 Photos: today, a few weeks ago when side effect was kicking in, and before hormone therapy.
Discharged and home, sweet, home. And a catheter for (at least) two weeks. 🫠 But I no longer feel like I have a knife in my stomach!
April 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Discharged and home, sweet, home. And a catheter for (at least) two weeks. 🫠 But I no longer feel like I have a knife in my stomach!
Great view, but I’m back in the hospital. After excruciating pain, off to the ER. My bladder is leaking into my abdomen. I’ll be here overnight for pain and infection prevention. Another scan tomorrow. And then I’ll probably have the catheter again for a bit when I go home. Not a good day.
April 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Great view, but I’m back in the hospital. After excruciating pain, off to the ER. My bladder is leaking into my abdomen. I’ll be here overnight for pain and infection prevention. Another scan tomorrow. And then I’ll probably have the catheter again for a bit when I go home. Not a good day.