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...
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...
Jon Reed Sims & the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
Marching On
Founded by Jon Reed Sims, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Celebrates Forty Years of Making a Joyous Gay Noise
by Hank Trout
Photography by...
Will Harrell: Advocate
Turning Grief Into Giving
Performer Will Harrell Shares How His Drag Alter Ego, Candy Samples, Helped Him Give Voice to AIDS Awareness
by Rob Zukowski
Photographed Exclusively...
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...
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...
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...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave: Nonfiction by Ephraim de...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave
by Ephraim de Francisco Solanas
I was certain that storing Jamie’s ashes on a bookshelf in the bedroom was...
David Spiher: Artist
The Prickliness of Life
Artist David Spiher Documents the Struggles and Triumphs of Love & Loss
by Hank Trout
David Spiher certainly knows the prickliness of life....
A Hollow Victory
A Hollow Victory
From fighting for our rights to fighting for our lives & back again
by Harry Breaux
As I put this blank sheet of electronic...















