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Remembering Soap Star, Lisa Brown
By Aubrey Baden III
Brown, through her performance of Nola, reflected the struggles of members of the LGBTQ community to live fully authentic lives.
MoreTurn the Tables
By Bruce Skeiff
Let’s not leave out our ability to reach out to the authors. It can broaden and build our personal community in a time of social isolation – even without a pandemic.
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Secrets From Steven: Review
By Bridgette M. Redman
Who knows a person best: A spouse, a parent, a lover? How can people who all claim to have the greatest closeness to someone have totally different perceptions of who that person is?
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AIDS as it was, as it has been
AIDS nostalgia fuels Better Davis and Other Stories. This is not to mean a sentimental longing for the return of a time when the epidemic cusped in the early 80s, but rather a writer’s skillful reconstruction of the painful appearance of the scourge forty years ago …
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A Life Behind the HIV Numbers
By Tom Williams
During those nine months, I honestly never thought of HIV. Was I kidding myself? I obviously was. It didn’t occur to the doctors either. They didn’t know I was gay.
A Secret Love: A Review
By Michele Kirichanskaya
In Chris Bolan’s touching documentary A Secret Love we see his dedication to telling his great aunts’ love story, an epic romance that spanned over seven decades, told in undeniable and unapologetic detail.
Aftermath of a Hate Crime
By Scarlett Davis
For most of us, adulthood is a series of choices, a one-night stand or a bad haircut. For teenage Holden, adulthood would be condensed into the events of one fatal night and its aftermath.
Hey UK: Treat LGBT Asylum Seekers Humanely!
By Aaron Gates-Lincoln
It is now more clear than ever that LGBT migrants, especially those seeking asylum and refuge, are singled out and subjected to tougher scrutiny by immigration officials.
Disclosure: A Netflix Documentary
By Craig Hale
While the journey of trans representation has come a long way, Disclosure makes it clear that representation can only be a small part of the “broader movement for social change” required to change the conditions of daily life for trans people.