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Deirdre Johnson: Cover Story
As I sat down for my interview with Deirdre Johnson over Zoom, I instantly felt warmly welcomed into her world. Her radiant smile lit up my screen as I imagine it does in every room she enters. But...
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Hailie Sahar: Cover Story
COVID-19 BE DAMNED! Fans unite and rejoice, as of this writing, season three of Pose is in production, with intense safety precautions for cast and crew, of course. The unhappy news is that this...
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Dr. Huan Vinh Dong: Cover Story
Acting is not only a profession. It’s a philosophy, it’s therapeutic, and it’s a life skill builder. An acting class can provide self-awareness, confidence, centering, communication, and teamwork....
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Sister Roma: Cover Story
Her full name, of course, is Sister There’s No Place Like Rome. The inspiration for the name she donned when she joined the San Francisco Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 1987 was “The...
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Tom Viola: Cover Story
In late January of this year, when I first interviewed Tom Viola, Executive Director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), snow was on the ground, President Biden had taken office just a week...
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Tony Enos: Cover Story
In one part of his video for “POSI+IVE,” an anthem about living with HIV, native Philadelphian Tony Enos runs up the steps that Rocky made famous in that iconic moment of cinema. Not being from...
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Sarah Schulman: Cover Story
O n a sweltering July day, I meet Sarah Schulman to talk about her new book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP NY, 1987–1993 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). It is a large book, done on a...
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Steven Reigns: Cover Story
A mix of supposition and stereotype quickly cemented into fact. Kimberly Bergalis and seven other patients accused dentist David Acer of infecting them with HIV through in-office procedures in the mid...
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Martina Clark: Cover Story
We’re all familiar with “the butterfly effect,” the idea that even an action as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings can set off ripples that travel far and wide, altering the course of...
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Richard L. Zaldivar: Cover Story
Of all the laudatory adjectives that one might rightfully use to describe Richard L. Zaldivar, the first one that comes to mind might be “persistent.” In 1993, Mr. Zaldivar’s dear friend David Ruiz...
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Donja R. Love: Cover Story
As a creative artist, Donja R. Love is definitely having a moment. After co-founding The Each-Other Project with husband Brandon Nick, [A&U, April 2015], Love has written and directed a series of...
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Sean San José: Cover Story
Sean San José is an impatient man. He was too impatient for the usual route of training for the theater in New York City “because every class I audited, I was like, I can’t see myself doing this every...
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Grace Detrevarah: Cover Story
We’re going to have our moment of silence,” said Grace Detrevarah, LGBT Liaison–Senior Reentry Peer/Health Facilitator, Osborne Association, as she facilitated the organization’s Transgender Day of...
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Cea: Cover Story
Cea is not stopping their stories and noise. Cea (Constantine Jones) has more of them to make, and they are doing it with power, connection, and force. HIV-positive poet, noted adjunct faculty member...
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Dominic Colón: Cover Story
When Dominic Colón won the inaugural Write It Out! (WIO!) Playwright’s Prize competition for The War I Know, the thrill he felt leapt off the page. “You don’t always control what the blessing in your...
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Ron B: Cover Story
“You had me at Angels in America,” I tell Ron B. when I see her at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network studios, in New York City. She’s on the set, getting ready to tape yet another episode of her...
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Wolfgang Busch: Cover Story
Many might describe Wolfgang Busch as a dream chaser; others, as a kind and patient mentor; as an artist and activist whose work always comes from the heart. Busch’s name is synonym with documentaries...
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Micheal Rice: Cover Story
Other Stories Educator and Filmmaker Micheal Rice Tackles the Concept of “other” within His Community by John Francis Leonard I‘ve done more than a few interviews with an incredibly varied and talented...
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Kurt Weston: Cover Story
Journey Through Darkness Award-winning, legally blind photographer Kurt Weston talks about his journey through the darkness of AIDS and related blindness, about art and activism by Alina Oswald In...
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