Columns

When A&U announced a few months back that I would be taking on the role of poetry editor here, I shared a brief insight...

What could be more festive for the holidays than the colorful and vibrant glam rocker and singer/songwriter Ricky Rebel?! The androgynous performer, who has witnessed...

It’s December already. It’s unbelievable that just a year ago, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and many of us didn’t...

For years I have lived behind a wall. The wall is real, a boundary of my own making, but my conception of it changed...

So often in life we strive to be something that we’re not. One of the great things about being a gay man is the...

Language matters. It can promote prejudice and misinformation; it shapes our thinking about who and what has value in this world. Logging into a...

December 1 is officially World AIDS Day! Oh, if only this December 1 were the last day of HIV on the planet—wouldn’t that be...

Three billion light years away there is a blue white dwarf star that is dying. It is burning itself super nova. It will explode,...

Y’all may not know, but Ms. Ruby has her doctorate in psychology. Okay, I know what you might be tittering: She shrinks heads. In the...

Persons living with HIV must take extra care of their bodies and minds. I have this saying I repeat to myself when things don’t...