E. Lynn Harris: August 2002
Writing Life
Novelist E. Lynn Harris Shares with A&U’s B. Andrew Plant How AIDS Helped Inspire Him to Start Writing, Why the Pandemic Is Integral...
Martin Duberman: Cover Story
Holding Tightly But Gently
Historian Martin Duberman in His Latest Book on Singer Michael Callen and Poet Essex Hemphill Revisits the Early Battleground That Was...
In Memoriam: Nancy Ellegate
We are mourning the loss of Nancy Ellegate, a longtime contributor to A&U, who died suddenly on September 27. Completing her undergraduate and master’s...
Left for Dead
I died three decades ago. In my early twenties. At the apex of the AIDS crisis in America in the 1980s. I’m long gone...
VIVA, Find Your Voice: Review
VIVA: Find Your Voice
Directed by Paddy Breathnach
Magnolia Pictures
Reviewed by Alina Oswald
“Why is everyone on this island addicted to drama?” Luis Alberto Garcia’s character, Mama,...
Queer Aging: Review
Queer Aging
The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology
by Jesus Ramirez-Valles
Oxford University Press
Reviewed by Hank Trout
From the Oxford University Press comes Queer Aging:...
The Past Dreamed Again: Christopher Hewitt Awards Honorees Announced
Assotto Saint, in Spells of a Voodoo Doll, wrote: “Anytime one tries to take fragments of one’s personal mythology and make them understandable to...
Magic and Mercury: Nonfiction by D.W. Anderson
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft
Eighth grade,...
Tim Murphy: Advocate
One Building, Many Stories
In a new novel, writer & activist Tim Murphy revisits the early days of AIDS
by John Francis Leonard
Activism, journalism, advocacy, and...
When the World Converted to Acronyms: Poetry by Joy Gaines-Friedler
When the World Converted to Acronyms
for James Kerr
Joy Gaines-Friedler teaches Advanced Poetry and Creative Writing for non-profits in the Detroit area, including the Prison...