Tim Murphy
Contributing EditorTim Murphy, based in Brooklyn, has been writing about HIV/AIDS for 25 years, for publications and organizations including TheBody, TheBodyPro, POZ, New York Magazine, The Nation, Housing Works, and Lambda Legal. He is the author of the 1980s New York City AIDS saga Christodora and the new novel Correspondents, which is set between two families in Boston, Beirut, and Baghdad during the years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Latest by Tim Murphy
Health Advocates Are Furious Over the Resignation of NYC’s Health Commissioner
They say that Mayor Bill de Blasio sidelined her expertise by handing off crucial COVID-19 case tracing to another city agency.
At NYC’s Oldest HIV Residence, Both Fury and Excitement Over Rebuild Plans
Some longtime dwellers of Bailey-Holt House, open since 1986, oppose being displaced, even though they’re invited back.
Why Is Moderna Excluding People With HIV From Their COVID-19 Vaccine Trial?
“There is no clinical justification for excluding people with HIV from COVID-19 vaccine trials,” reads a letter from HIV advocates to federal health officials.
Alabama HIV Activist Talks About His New ‘Fictionalized Memoir’
Tony Christon-Walker’s Walking in Truth: Fatherhood is Part One of a trilogy he’s planning about his life as an openly HIV-positive Black gay man in the Deep South.
Thailand Has Lost One of Its Fiercest HIV and Drug-Policy Activists
Friends and fellow activists remember Suwan Arjwichai, who helped power the Thai Drug Users Network.
Will Internal Strife Break Heritage of Pride, NYC’s Longtime June LGBT Events Organization?
Facing challenges from without, HOP is also under fire from within.
Queer Mexican-American Poet's Debut Book Plays With Language to Explore Identity, Sexuality, Desire, and Resistance
Fellow poet Danez Smith calls Benjamin Garcia’s Thrown in the Throat a “freaky, stunning debut.”
Fire Island Folks Talk Anonymously About Hitting the Maskless Parties That Caused a Social-Media Ruckus
#Mask4Mask is the new #Masc4Masc.
Did a Racial Power Imbalance Lead to a Pair of Firings at a Michigan HIV Agency?
CARES is among many nonprofits serving people of color but with mainly white leadership. When and how will that change?
The Union Push at New York City’s Housing Works Has Hit a Standoff Amid COVID-19 Upheaval
Management and many workers at the pioneering nonprofit have hit a stalemate over when and how a union vote can go forward.