Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88
At the epicenter of the epidemic in New York City, he was a pioneer researcher who, as a clinician, also made house calls.
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend in 2014. As both a physician and a researcher, he was one of the most important figures in the fight against AIDS, if also one of the most unheralded.Credit.Simon Watney
Published Jan. 30, 2021Updated Feb. 1, 2021
When he was growing up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the 1930s and ’40s, Joseph Sonnabend would watch his mother, a physician, make house calls in the middle of the night and talk with patients on the phone at all hours. He didn’t want to follow that path, but he did study medicine and become a medical researcher, working alongside Nobel laureates in England on virology and immunology.
The action reverses a Trump administration move, and came less than a week after the new president issued another wide-ranging civil rights executive order.
Warm Hearts at an Icy Elopement
Sarah Bishop and Kacey Harris, who live in San Antonio, opted for a wintry wedding in the Rocky Mountains.
Sarah Bishop, left, and Kacey Harris were married Jan. 6 near Dillon Reservoir in Frisco, Colo.Credit.Larissa Welch and Bailey Boggs/We, The Light Photography
By Lois Smith Brady
Jan. 22, 2021
At their self-uniting ceremony in Frisco, Colo., on Jan. 6, the first thing Sarah Bishop and Kacey Harris did was play a round of rock-paper-scissors. That was their way of deciding who should say their vows first. The couple were standing beside Dillon Reservoir, which was frozen, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, covered by new snow and crisscrossed with animal tracks. The sun had just risen, but not the temperature. It was zero degrees. Ms. Harris won, so she began.
The moves aim to strengthen protections for young immigrants, end construction of President Donald J. Trump’s border wall, end a travel ban and prioritize racial equity.
The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet
A new photography exhibit invites viewers to contemplate the emotional toll of discrimination.
The Rev. Magora Kennedy. The Rev. Magora Kennedy, an 82-year-old on the fight for LGBT+ rights
On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit housed inside a senior living center invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?
The exhibit, “Not Another Second,” shot in 2019 by a German photographer, Karsten Thormaehlen, profiles 12 older adults who identify as L.G.B.T.+ (the “Q” is deliberately missing because the word “queer” was often used as a pejorative term against the people profiled), through a series of portraits and video interviews.