A dual biography, the book profiles Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill, both gifted, successful, HIV+ gay men who came of age in the Reagan years and with the onset of AIDS in America. Read More
Poet Essex Hemphill inspires new film, GLAAD Media Awards, and other LGBT news. Read More
“It is my hope that my work forces us to face our fears of HIV/AIDS. Life has brought me intimately...
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
Queer mentorship is more than a good idea, or the right thing to do; it is a radical act of community building/re-building.
Supporting oneself as an artist is difficult, at any stage. And so it is with deep gratitude and more than a bit of awe, I reflect on writers who, in the midst of their day to day grind, invest time in raising emerging artists... Read More
FIERCE—Middle English: from Old French fiers ‘fierce, brave, proud,’ from Latin ferus ‘untamed.’ Compare with feral. The word “fierce” is...
When I saw John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus for the first time, I realized two things: first, that this was the...