The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
Category: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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Rosa von Praunheim, 83, Dies; Captured Gay Life in Germany on Film
The New York Times – Film:
His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it.
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Everybody Wants to Be Gen X
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Some of the generation’s most iconic creators reflect on how the cohort once synonymous with slacking came to leave such an indelible impression on the culture.
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Steve Pieters, Pastor Who Spoke of AIDS in Famed Interview, Dies at 70
The New York Times – Film:
He had the disease and was interviewed on the PTL network in 1985 by Tammy Faye Bakker, a broadcast that was said to have changed minds and hearts.
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Imagining a Monument to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths
The New York Times – T Magazine:
In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.
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Resurrecting the Forgotten Art of the AIDS Era
The New York Times – T Magazine:
In amassing work made by the mostly overlooked gay artists who lived and died during the crisis, a global group of collectors is redefining what the Western canon looks like.
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Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More
The New York Times – Music:
Revisiting “The Divine Punishment,” the first album in a trilogy addressing AIDS, and at work on new music, the singer and composer is still exploring isolation in her singular, startling way.