Live to Tell (Again)
Live to Tell (Again)
by David Waggoner
Jeopardizing the promise I made to myself to never repeat the title of a Frontdesk (the one I called...
Buddy System
Buddy System
Part III of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS Pandemic
by Bruce Ward
The volunteer “buddy” program at Gay Men’s...
For Some of Us, Social Isolation Is Nothing New
Be the Light at Tunnel's End
For Some of Us, Social Isolation Is Nothing New
by Hank Trout
Here in San Francisco, as I write this, we...
Dudley Danoff, MD: Advocate
Ruby's Rap
by Ruby Comer
Dudley Danoff, MD
"Sex is life’s cheapest luxury and should be fun and relaxing, a simple, natural pleasure that erases worries, tensions,...
1,112 and Counting
1,112 and Counting
Part II of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS Pandemic
by Bruce Ward
In 1982, I was working at...
AIDS2018? AIDS2020? AIDS2022?
AIDS2018? AIDS2020? AIDS2022?
What If They Held a Conference and Nobody Came?
by Hank Trout
By now, everyone reading this knows that, due to concerns over the...
Secrets We Cannot Keep
Secrets We Cannot Keep
First It Was My Turn to Disclose a Health Condition—Then It Was My Mother's
by John Francis Leonard
I tested positive in the spring...
Reopening America
Summer Stock
by David Waggoner
Just as we’ve started reopening America after months-long lockdowns in response to one of the world’s newest plagues, a kind of...
Michael B. Chadwick: Advocate
Ruby's Rap
by Ruby Comer
Michael B. Chadwick
On a nippy rainy L.A. evening, I’m in my little Silver Lake digs, aimlessly flicking the channel button on...
My Mother, My Ally
Lift for Life
by David Waggoner
Mothers around the world are often the first faces we see when we are born. And if you are lucky,...
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Not Quite Magical Realism
Not Quite Magical Realism
by David Waggoner
As you probably know already (If you’ve ever read one of my introductions to the magazine) I had the...
