Margaret Thatcher was no friend to Scotland – hundreds gathered in Glasgow’s George Square to celebrate her death in 2013...
"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
Authors Edmund White, Felice Picano, and Andrew Holleran reflect on their years together as the Violet Quill and publishing today, AIDS literature, Queer Theory, and writing gay characters. Read More
From June 7 to Sept. 15, the New-York Historical Society will feature an exhibition called “AIDS in New York: The...
"He always felt like he was an alien and that people wouldn't accept him as he was. He created camouflage."
Writer and biographer Cynthia Carr discusses the public and private life of the iconic artist David Wojnarowicz along with the challenges of creating a cohesive history that blends the two. Read More
Truman Capote fans will happy to hear that the December issue of Vanity Fair features an unpublished chapter from Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers. Read More
Back before I was ill myself, back when I was a writer who traveled to the story, rather than needing stories to come to me, I spent a decade covering writers who were dying.
It wasn’t a plan–I was a young reporter and I got assigned a beat that no one thought would be big in the 80s: AIDS. Read More
