Just*in Time: April 2014
Posted on May 1, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Just*in Time
Just*in Time by Justin B. Terry-Smith Hello Justin, My condom broke and now I don’t know what to do. What should I do? I’m straight and I was having sex with my girl in her ass and it broke. I didn’t think I had any lube, so this time I just spit on the condom [...]
Light Up New York!
Posted on April 30, 2014 by A&U in Features
The New York City skyline at night attracts both tourists and residents alike with its glittery presence. A new AIDS Walk NY initiative called Light Up New York! is calling for businesses and buildings to light up in red during the week leading up to the twenty-ninth annual Walk, which will take place on May [...]
Christopher Hewitt Award 2014
Posted on April 25, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Christopher Hewitt Award Call for Entries for 2014 Literary Award A&U is currently accepting entries for the second annual Christopher Hewitt Award. (A list of last year’s winners and runners-up can be viewed here.) Fiction/Poetry/Drama/Nonfiction contest An award will be given in each of four categories: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Creative Nonfiction. The winner in [...]
Dropping the Ball
Posted on April 22, 2014 by A&U in Columns, First Generation
Dropping the Ball Is it time to forge new connections & strengthen our AIDS communities? by Chuck Willman I’m angry. So as I write this, I cannot promise it will be a joy to read or digest. For that, I will apologize now. But I hope you’ll indulge me for a few minutes anyway. I’m [...]
God Loves Uganda
Posted on April 21, 2014 by A&U in Movies & TV, The Arts
God Loves Uganda Directed by Roger Ross Williams Full Credit Productions/Motto Pictures Reviewed by Larry Buhl It’s been a rough couple of years for anti-gay forces in the U.S. and the western world. But anti-gay western Christian evangelicals have found fertile ground—they admit it freely—to spread their “Jesus hates homosexuality” message in Uganda, the buckle [...]
Desert AIDS Project
Posted on April 18, 2014 by A&U in Features
Resident Good Desert AIDS Project Offers Fresh Leases On Life Text & Photos by Sean Black Hudson Mark is many things, but, most of all, he’s grateful. “Moving into Vista Sunrise Apartments was the wisest choice I’ve ever made,” shares the retired interior designer and former single-engine pilot who has struggled with the touch-and-go’s of [...]
Tim Courtney
Posted on April 17, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Ruby's Rap
Tim Courtney Ruby’s Rap by Ruby Comer “Ruby, do you want to play doctor? This time let me be the doctor, okay?” This childhood memory flashes through my noggin’ when I see an old chum, Tim Courtney, at an AIDS fundraiser in San Diego. Tim and I used to be neighbors and one time during [...]
I Loved You More
Posted on April 16, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer Hawthorne Books Reviewed by Sally Hessney Tom Spanbauer’s latest novel, I Loved You More, is about a writer, Ben Grunewald, who is left bereft and brokenhearted after a rift opens up between him and his best friend, Hank Christian. The rift is caused by Ben’s other friend, Ruth [...]
Dudley Saunders
Posted on April 15, 2014 by A&U in Gallery
The Things We Left Behind With “In These Boxes,” performance artist Dudley Saunders uses objects to bring back lives cut short by Larry Buhl The things we leave behind are, in rare cases, works of art or professional accomplishments that live on. In some cases we leave behind our DNA to live on through generations. [...]
Logic as the Second Person Singular
Posted on April 14, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Logic as the Second Person Singular AIDS sufferers in Papua New Guinea have been buried alive by their terrified relatives….If they killed the victims with a machete it would expose them to infection, they believe. —The Telegraph, August 28, 2007 The birds are gone, it’s all dead now so you can stop taking pictures of [...]
