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How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

Margaret Grace Myers on the Grim Legacy of Ronald Reagan

By Margaret Grace Myers | August 13, 2025

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Dylin Hardcastle Recommends Alana Portero, James Baldwin, Lars Horn, and More

By Dylin Hardcastle | June 16, 2025

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Steven W. Thrasher Remembers One of the World’s First AIDS Doctors

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 24, 2025

“Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

“Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

Spencer Reece Considers the Life and Work of Jaime Gil de Biedma

By Spencer Reece | March 6, 2025

In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded

In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded

Steven W. Thrasher on the Pernicious Narratives That Fuel the Status Quo

By Steven W. Thrasher | October 3, 2024

Then and Now: How the AIDS Crisis Changed Queer Storytelling

Then and Now: How the AIDS Crisis Changed Queer Storytelling

Timothy Schaffert in Conversation With Eric Schnall

By Literary Hub | April 5, 2024

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The New, New Black Gay Renaissance

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Kissing Doesn’t Kill Campaign">Behind the Scenes of ACT UP’s Groundbreaking Kissing Doesn’t Kill Campaign

By Jack Lowery | April 11, 2022

Nearly 200 video interviews with ACT UP New York members are now available online.

By Walker Caplan | November 22, 2021

Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

Stephanie Grant Unpacks the Categories of Our Revulsion

By Stephanie Grant | October 7, 2021

Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

Steven Reigns on the Case of Dentist David Acer

By Steven Reigns | September 20, 2021

On Miss America’s Brief—But Real—Activist Phase

On Miss America’s Brief—But Real—Activist Phase

When the Pageant Gave Airtime to Advocacy to Draw Viewers

By Amy Argetsinger | September 7, 2021

How Has Queer YA Addressed HIV/AIDS?

How Has Queer YA Addressed HIV/AIDS?

Derritt Mason on What Fiction Gets Right—And Wrong

By Derritt Mason | February 25, 2021

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

"I’d be thrilled to be known in fifty years’ time as a minor gay writer from the 1990s."

By John McIntyre | June 26, 2020

Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Encountering Hervé Guibert's Anti-Utopian Men

Jeffrey Zuckerman on Translating the Author's Visceral Autofictions

By Jeffrey Zuckerman | June 22, 2020

On the Malign Impulse to Name a Disease After a Group of People

On the Malign Impulse to Name a Disease After a Group of People

AIDS-Era Homophobia ">Mary Ann Cherry on Asian-American Racism and
AIDS-Era Homophobia

By Mary Ann Cherry | May 29, 2020

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