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<em>Parting Glances</em>: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood

His Debut Was One of the Best Independent Films of the 1980s. He Died Four Years Later.

By Paul Morton | June 8, 2023

Petition over book by 'AIDS denialist' delivered to publisher.

Petition over book by 'AIDS denialist' delivered to publisher.

By Janet Manley | March 20, 2023

“The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger.” Alexandra Billings on the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation

“The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger.” Alexandra Billings on the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 14, 2022

Emily Bass on America's Mission to End AIDS in Africa

Emily Bass on America's Mission to End AIDS in Africa

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 16, 2021

Freddie Mercury Was a Total Opera Fanboy

Freddie Mercury Was a Total Opera Fanboy

Late in His Life, He Teamed Up with One of Opera's Biggest Stars

By Alfonso Casas | June 4, 2020

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

Bill Mullen on The Welcome Table and No Papers for Muhammad

By Bill V. Mullen | October 4, 2019

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The Real Heroes:
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By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank | August 16, 2019

On America's First Openly Gay Reporter at a Major Newspaper

By Andrew E. Stoner | June 19, 2019

The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | October 4, 2018

Toward a Theory of Radical Corniness

Toward a Theory of Radical Corniness

How Pose is Reinventing the Very Special Episode

By Eric Thurm | July 20, 2018

Love in a Time of Plague: Lessons from the Front Lines of AIDS Activism

Love in a Time of Plague: Lessons from the Front Lines of AIDS Activism

David France and Tim Murphy in Conversation

By Literary Hub | December 1, 2016

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

How Convenient Storylines Can Ruin Lives

By Harron Walker | December 1, 2016

Christodora

Christodora

Tim Murphy

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 12, 2016

Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe, Language, and

Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe, Language, and "Afropolitans"

An Interview with the author of The Book of Memory

By Julie Phillips | February 22, 2016

Poetry & Ritual

Poetry & Ritual

An Essay in Verse by CAConrad, on Memory, Ritual, and Survival

By CAConrad | February 5, 2016

Are the Kids All Right?

Are the Kids All Right?

Larry Clark's Proto-Hipster Teen Grotesque Turns 20

By Moira Weigel | January 22, 2016