The Arts

A Beautiful Heart Actor Adam B. Shapiro talks about The Normal Heart, de-stigmatizing HIV and bridging divides Text & photos by Alina Oswald Many might recognize NYC-based...

America in Transition Created & directed by André Pérez Revry Reviewed by T.J. Banks Tiommi Luckett is an HIV advocate living in Arkansas. Dezjorn Gauthier is a model,...

Filming H.I.(SHE) In a new doc, filmmaker Cassandra Roberts explores the lives of women living with HIV by Hank Trout Cassandra Roberts, an Australian and British documentary...

Bohemian Rhapsody Directed by Bryan Singer Twentieth-Century Fox Reviewed by Alina Oswald Many years ago, as a kid, I discovered the music of Queen, while listening to my...

1985 Written & directed by Yen Tan MuseLessMime Productions/Cranium Entertainment Reviewed by John Francis Leonard 1985 is a film about secrets—the secrets we think we’re hiding, but are...

‘Tis the season… actually, it’s always the season for a good read! We here at A&U have reviewed several books this year that will...

Tough as Nails For Singer/Pianist Russell Deason, Surviving is a Cabaret by Hank Trout Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Michael Kerner When Russell Deason was growing up in...

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...

Reversed: HIV+ A TV Show Addresses Testing & Treatment by Justin B Terry-Smith The first series of Discovery Life’s Reversed was geared toward changing views on diabetes,...

After 82 In a new documentary, Steve Keeble and Ben Lord tell the story of AIDS in the UK by Hank Trout Five years in the making,...