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A new exhibition at New York’s PPOW Gallery displays David Wojnarowicz’s letters to his former lover Jean Pierre – here, his biographer Cynthia Carr talks about his tender, furious artistic legacy
"When I contracted AIDS, I contracted a diseased society as well," is the opening quote from the new searing documentary Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker, playing at the Roxie Theater and to be released May 18 on DVD by Kino Lorber. This remark epitomizes Wojnarowicz as the quintessential outsider, a vantage point that allowed him to be a scathing iconoclast as artist, cultural critic, writer, musician, photographer, and filmmaker. Often grouped together with his queer contemporaries Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, all AIDS casualties, Wojnarowicz was a unique interdisciplinary mul...