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March 11, 2019 0

A Podcast: Merrily He Strolled Along

David LaFontaine – a trained singer and pianist – decided to record a few of Stephen Sondheim’s songs for our readers. So, we rented time in a sound studio in North Cambridge, MA and produced this podcast.

February 12, 2018 0

Artist Profile: John-Manuel Andriote, author of Stonewall Strong

FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, John Manuel-Andriote has been a critical voice on hiv-aids in such periodicals as The Advocate and The Washington Post. In 1999, he published Victory Deferred:…More

October 30, 2017 0

Portrait Painter Juan Bastos on His Upcoming L.A. Show

JUAN BASTOS is a portrait painter whose career will soon be on view at a major retrospective of his work at the Denenberg Fine Arts Gallery in West…More

October 7, 2016 0

Editor, Richard Schneider on Healing Stigma

In this episode of Healing Stigma on Left of Str8 Radio, Richard Schneider, founder and editor-in-chief of The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, joins Kevin Hogan and Scott Fullerton for a lively,…More

July 15, 2016 0

Sarah Schulman on Her Latest Provocations

I first encountered Sarah Schulman in January 1997, when she was a speaker at “Literature in the Age of AIDS” in Key West. That was a world ago.…More

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