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
This Is How LGBTQ Latinx Folks Are Facing the Impact of COVID-19 at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Groups like Poderosos, Team Brownsville, and Angry Tías and Abuelas are working around the clock to help those most in need.
COVID-19 Budget Cuts Are Quashing NYC’s Brand-New Summer Career Program for LGBTQ Homeless Youth
The project, funded at $2.7 million over four years, was to start July 1. Queer youth and their allies are devastated.
Comrades and Friends Remember Gay AIDS Activist & Writer Larry Kramer
The co-founder of GMHC & ACT-UP, and writer of books and plays is remembered
Here’s How One Organization Is Helping Women Living With HIV Cope With the COVID-19 Era
“The impact ... has been devastating on women living with HIV,” says Naina Khanna of Positive Women’s Network.
Why Is NYC Mayor de Blasio Taking COVID-19 Contact Tracing Away From Health Department Experts?
Advocates and experts say that the mayor’s petty power move is slowing and hindering a crucial part of stopping coronavirus in the city.
Copay Cards May No Longer Count Toward Your Health Plan Deductible
The Trump administration’s HHS has officially told plans they don’t have to do this—and that could mean a hard hit on patient wallets.
Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown on His Forebears, HIV, and How to Enjoy Success in the Time of COVID-19
“I feel like I’m part of something much larger than myself,” he told TheBody.
During COVID-19 Pandemic, the HIV Community Is Cooking and Delivering Food to People in Need
While some are packing on the pounds, others are working overtime to make sure our community’s most vulnerable don’t go hungry.
Tributes to HIV/AIDS Community Members We’ve Lost to COVID-19 So Far
They include nonprofit leaders, researchers, peer advocates, social workers, longtime survivors, and artists.
Amid the COVID Crisis, HIV and Other Activists Must Act Now for Fair Elections in November
What we saw on April 7 in Wisconsin, hostile court rulings followed by scarce polling sites, is a bad omen for the fall—unless citizens unite now for a full and fair vote.