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April / May 1995
Larry Kramer, With Sugar On Top
by Andrew Sullivan
We all know Larry Kramer, or think we know him. The father of AIDS activism, the writer of the groundbreaking play, The Normal Heart, the founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and then ACT UP, the pain in the ass of most AIDS organizations, the hysteric seer. I’d read his stuff before and found most of it unconvincingly shrill. But his early novel, Faggots, had struck a chord. It exuded a sense that gay men could do better if they understood themselves as fully human, if they could shed their self-loathing and self-deception. In Kramer’s later work, I found—between the hyperbole and irresponsibility—a stark belief in the equality of lesbians and gay men and a conviction that AIDS was allowed to spread because of the people it first attacked. Both beliefs carried the unmistakable mark of truth. It was truth we all knew, but few of us had the clarity of mind or facility with words to state it so baldly. Whatever history makes of Larry Kramer’s role in this epidemic, it will have to record that on these central facts, Larry Kramer was right. Like Randy Shilts, he was right.
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Peter Jennings Gets Angry
by Steve Doppelt
Since the beginning of the AIDS crisis, a large part of the fight against the disease has been an uphill battle to have the true scope of the pandemic shown in the media: The disease, its means of transmission, the search for treatments, the variety of people living with HIV and the discrimination they face. Reporting on AIDS has been scarce and frequently inaccurate. Virtually every major print or television news outlet has come under fire from AIDS activists for insensitive or sensational coverage of AIDS. Or for the shocking lack of coverage.
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POZ Reads
by David Thomas
A visual feast, a frank book
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S.O.S.
by Sean O. Strub
French attitude toward AIDS is truly offensive
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Liver To Tell
by Dr. Barbara Starrett and Dr. Richard Novak
Doctors analyze POZ publish Sean O. Strub’s liver values
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Hurry Up and Wait
by Kiki Mason
Go ahead and be difficult, stubborn and obnoxious-it’s your right
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John Milks Booth
by Dominic Hamilton-Little
A trip to the adult "boothstore" recalls the South of France
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Christian Soldiers
by Juan Carlos Perez
Mario González does good works with Catholic group
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Casey's Pop Life
by Casey Davidson
Mariah Carey's mother and HIV positive sister in custody battle
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