Metanoia centers Black cis and trans women, and cis and trans women of color, who have always been at the forefront of movement work… read more

Understanding the literature from the HIV/AIDS crisis, a trans speculative fiction anthology, and more LGBT news… read more

Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom write on life, death, gender, and HIV/AIDS. At the core of the book is a pair of men narrating their own lives as a means of witnessing and inquiring about the other… read more

Christodora is an HIV/AIDS novel like no other. It stands apart largely because it is not trying to tell history. Rather, it is taking stories from a place and time and putting them through the prism of literature… read more

Talking about AIDS with children, Gay Ugandan musicals, and more LGBT news… read more

“I’m not buying into ‘we were all heroes’ and ‘we changed the world’ and all that stuff. That’s just too rah-rah and simplistic; we deserve a more nuanced understanding of those times and how it affected us, what motivated us then and what the outcomes are today.”… read more

History should always trump nostalgia because “nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” Whoever first said these words—baseball icon Yogi Berra, French actress Simone Signoret, or New Yorker magazine writer Peter De Vries—they apply to the history of AIDS activism…. read more

“One thing I learned in writing for mainstream magazines, as a gay man, who often wanted to write about gay stuff–death and homophobia and boyfriends, assuming those are separate categories–was that straight men, straight male editors–and straight women, just as often, I should add–thought that if they ran one piece about homophobia or AIDS or gay rights or Lesbian Avengers, they had covered the entire topic for all time…”… read more

The memoir is a detailed accounting of Strub’s personal struggles and triumphs during the height of the AIDS epidemic…. read more

Director Sofia Coppola (Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland for the screen…. read more