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AIDS crisis

Posted inBooks, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Palliative Brownies

by Krista Stevens June 16, 2020October 19, 2022

“I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

A Town Split By a Play About the 1980s AIDS Epidemic

by Aaron Gilbreath November 12, 2019October 19, 2022

Sometimes art can challenge viewers enough to change them. Sometimes art just makes the narrow-minded angry.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

Woodstock: My Queer Love Story

by Kate Walter August 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Woodstock: My Queer Love Story

by Kate Walter August 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.

Posted inNonfiction

Mr. and Mrs. B

by Longreads June 18, 2015October 19, 2022

When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Mr. and Mrs. B

by Longreads June 18, 2015October 19, 2022

When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

How Halston’s Death Galvanized the Fashion Industry to Take Action Against AIDS

by juliawick April 27, 2015October 19, 2022

But not all AIDS deaths were hushed up; indeed, there was a backlash against the conspiracy of silence. Before Way Bandy—one of the industry’s top makeup artists—died on August 13, 1986, he directed his executors to announce his death as AIDS-related. And Halston acknowledged the cause of his own death on March 26, 1990, in […]

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