How Britain Is Reacting to âItâs a Sinâ
The show, which aired last month in the U.K., has broken a viewing record and revived conversations about how the country handled the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
From left, Omari Douglas, Lydia West, David Carlyle, Calum Scott Howells and Nathaniel Curtis in âItâs a Sin.âCredit. Ben Blackall/HBO Max
By Scott Bryan
Feb. 22, 2021
LONDON â In what may be a perfect formula for helping a well-made TV show go viral, all five episodes of âItâs a Sinâ arrived on a British streaming service in late January, on the Friday before a snowy weekend, during a national lockdown.
Feb. 15, 2021
In 1995, Lisa Wippler, having recently retired from the Marines, moved with her husband and two young sons to Oceanside, Calif., and was contemplating her next chapter in life. The answer came while lying in bed one night, reading an article about infertility.
“I had no idea how many couples out there needed help,” she said. Inspired, she sought out a local support group for women who had served as surrogates to help those who can’t have children on their own start families. “It was this amazing circle of women,” said Ms. Wippler, who is now 49. “All talking about their journeys and their stories.”
A Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time
“Gay Bar,” a memoir by Jeremy Atherton Lin, is a toast for the gay bars that shaped queer identity, both personal and collective.Credit.via Jeremy Atherton Lin
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By Hugh Ryan
By Jeremy Atherton Lin
History, as it is taught, is a straight line of dominoes falling the relentless clack of fact hitting fact, an orderly queue of causality stretching on forever. History, as it is lived, is a reeling spiral of flight and return; the iterative reawakening of new selves in familiar places; a never-ending interrogation of our own confused and confusing motives; a messy slather of dots on a graph where the center can be plotted only retrospectively.
Carmen Vázquez, a Force on L.G.B.T.Q. Issues, Dies at 72
Often outspoken, she was a fixture in advocacy groups in San Francisco and New York. She died of Covid-19.
Carmen Vázquez was called âone of the most brilliant activistsâ in the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.Credit.National L.G.B.T.Q. Task Force
Published Feb. 5, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others
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It was 1996, and President Bill Clinton was running for a second term against Bob Dole, the Republican candidate. In the gay/lesbian/bi/trans world, there was talk of boycotting the election to show displeasure with the center-right politics of compromise that characterized Mr. Clintonâs first term. But Carmen Vázquez was having none of it.