"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
Director Sofia Coppola (Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland for the screen. Read More
Pleading in the Blood is the first full-length book on performance artist Ron Athey and its editor, Dominic Johnson, quickly locates Athey not as a member of the punk and queer cultures of the 1980s and 90s (though these, of course, are crucial), but as the narrator of his own life. Read More
Morrisroe didn’t have the longevity, dying from AIDS at age 30, but he had the fame and notoriety to justify the release of his ephemera: letters, song lyrics, hospital records, art school reviews, exhibition advertisements, and excerpts from his collaborative Boston punk-scene ‘zine, Dirt. Read More
On June 30 2013, at the New York City Pride Parade, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) declared...
Encounters with Authors is often elegiac in tone, tinged with the melancholy of lives well-lived but cut off, whether by disease, the distaste of “urban officialdom,” or sheer orneriness. Read More
In Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott shares her story of growing up as the daughter of writer and editor Steve Abbott, a leading gay cultural critic and important voice in the New Narrative movement.
Abbott sat down with Lambda Literary to talk about her father, the impact of HIV/AIDS on her life, and the experience of crafting her memoir. Read More
“A strange den or music room childhood” –Frank O’Hara Mother works at the Aurora Family Care Center, a low...
The resurrection of David Wojnarowicz, via a recent biography, and now this collaborative comic of his work with James Romberger...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father (W.W. Norton & Company) by Alysia Abbott manages to pick up the nearly moribund genre of the AIDS memoir, give it a good dusting off, and then send it back out into the world with something like a fighting chance. Read More
