Just Another Death Sentence: Nonfiction by Hank Trout
One morning in July 1989, I woke up with my right eye swollen completely shut and cysts all over my chest and belly. I...
“Save Tonight”: Nonfiction by Jennifer Sembler
Save Tonight
by Jennifer Sembler
We were standing among G’s drunken Italian friends who were singing an awful karaoke rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance...
Stella: Nonfiction by Hank Trout
Stella
by Hank Trout
I first met Jim the day I tried to pick up his boyfriend at the Polk Gulch Saloon.
The Gulch was a...
We Blessed: Nonfiction by John Boucher
We Blessed
by John Boucher
The following story is true. The names have been changed and composite characters created in order to protect the innocent, and...
Love Wins: Nonfiction by Tim Patten
President Obama was on TV! It was June 26, 2015, and the president was making a speech about marriage and how it now represented...
The Scream of the Phoenix: Nonfiction by Jesús Guillén
The Scream of the Phoenix
to all kinds of survivors around the world
Most of us cry when we are born because the trauma of...
No Funny Business: Nonfiction by Liam O’Brien
No Funny Business
by Liam O'Brien
"Would you like to see my place?” Sam asked, and tapped his hand, anxious, on my knee. “No funny business.”
“Sure,”...
The Custody Visit (1987): Nonfiction by Andrea Laiacona Dooley
The Custody Visit (1987)
by Andrea Laiacona Dooley
Seventh grade ended, and it was time to visit my father in Indiana. We’d last seen him at...
Walt Odets: Advocate & Writer
Digging Out of Stigma
Psychologist & Author Walt Odets Talks with A&U’s Hank Trout About Navigating HIV and Other Issues Impacting Gay Men’s Lives
When your...
Never Forget Your First: Nonfiction by Paul A. Aguilar
Never Forget Your First
by Paul A. Aguilar
On June 5, 1981, just two weeks before my high school graduation and my eighteenth birthday, the CDC...
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