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This Playwright Is Helping People Living With HIV to ‘Write It Out!’
Black, queer, HIV-positive playwright Donja R. Love launches a new writing workshop.
Artist Devin N. Morris Explores COVID and Isolation Through His Art
Today there are many Black queer artists creating in isolation, consciously (or not) documenting their progression through this pandemic where previous generations couldn’t.
More than Voguing, the Ballroom Community Is Fighting a Crystal Meth Epidemic in New York City
A new initiative called Ballroom, We Care is mobilizing community leaders and service providers to address the spike in crystal meth overdose deaths.
Late, Great Musician and AIDS Activist Michael Callen to Be Musically Honored Nov. 11
The Joe's Pub event in New York will benefit the Callen-Lorde LGBTQ health clinic that bears his name.
In New York City for WorldPride? See The Art Exhibit at the LGBT Center
The collections show slices of post-Stonewall queer life in New York.
New York Philharmonic Plays Symphonic Response to the AIDS Crisis
Composer John Corigliano's work is featured in the orchestra's Music of Conscience series, and accompanied by a display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Exhibit in New York Unearths 1990s Activism by HIV-Positive Women in Prison
"Women are dying in here, and we need some advocacy and support," AIDS activist Joann Walker wrote from prison decades ago. 'Metanoia' features Walker, her contemporaries, and currently active women of color AIDS advocates.
The Musical 'Rent' Will Be Televised, but Has It Lost Its Potential to Spark Action Against HIV Stigma?
When Rent opened on Broadway in 1996, it was a radical push against the stigma of living with HIV. But can the upcoming live televised production on Fox go beyond shallow sentimentality?
Jordan Eagles Uses Life's Blood in Life's Work
Many creative folk say that art is in their blood. For Jordan Eagles, blood is in his art -- not simply as an artistic tool, but as a precious, universal life force.
A Play About AIDS Wins Tony Awards, and No One Says 'HIV'
AIDS should have been center stage at the Tony Awards this year with big wins for the revival of Angels In America, a play about gay men dying of HIV in the 1980s. Except, none of the winners actually mentioned the word.