David Wojnarowicz: Artist
History Keeps Me Awake at Night
A New Exhibit at the Whitney Illuminates the Brutal, Provocative Outsider Art of David Wojnarowicz
by Hank Trout
Born in Red...
Luna Luis Ortiz: Artist
Zoom!
Luna Luis Ortiz Turned His Personal Life Into Images that Created a History Marker for the Epidemic
by Dann Dulin
Photos by Luna Luis Ortiz
It’s opening...
Leo Herrera/The Fathers Project
What If?
The Fathers Project, Created by Leo Herrera, Imagines a Queer World Without AIDS
by Hank Trout
Photographed Exclusively for AU by Alex Ray
Imagine a world...
Dan Nicoletta: Artist
Storyteller
LGBT San Francisco by Dan Nicoletta chronicles more than four decades of Queer joy, tragedy
by Hank Trout
When Dan Nicoletta moved to San Francisco in...
After Louie
Today we live in “a potential radicalizing moment,” artist and activist Avram Finkelstein said in a recent interview, . We find ourselves at “a...
blu sunne: A Blog by Lester Strong: The Boys in the...
The Boys in the Band, AIDS: Looking to the Past, Moving Toward the Future
My husband Dave and I recently saw the current Broadway revival...
Alfie Pettit: Advocate
Untucked
Alan “Alfie” Pettit, aka Arial Trampway, the Inimitable Drag Queen of Palm Springs, Educates Others About the Epidemic From Firsthand Knowledge
by Dann Dulin
I was...
Epic Black Voices: Daniel Driffin & Ken Williams
Epic Black Voices
HIV advocates Daniel Driffin and Ken Williams discuss tailoring care and prevention for Black men
by Larry Buhl
In the amfAR Epic Voices online...
Still At Risk: An Interview with Playwright Tim Pinckney
Still At Risk
Playwright Tim Pinckney examines AIDS activism then and now, and the rewriting of our history
by Hank Trout
We first meet Kevin, ex-actor and...
Felix Racelis: Advocate
Racing down Wilshire Boulevard near Crescent Heights in my streamlined ’69 “Mother” Lincoln, my azure blue Manolo Blahniks slam on the brakes as I...
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Summer 1981. My twenty-second birthday. Midnight. Going to the Anvil, Downtown. The Big Apple! I am a newly minted gay man, exploring this new...
