July/August 2016

Cover: Salim “Slam” Gauwloos and Carlton Wilborn shine the spotlight on HIV in a new film about Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour dancers. Inside: Desert Migration profiles long-term survivors in Palm Springs, California; Doug Meyer creates sculptures of creative icons lost to AIDS. Plus: An excerpt from Tim Murphy’s novel Christodora, about the early (and future) years of the epidemic in New York.