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06/02/2006


road.jpg 25 years of AIDS. Frontline has an extensive site with a timeline, interview and maps on their program (watchable online) The Age of AIDS. An AIDS/LifeCyle event is kicking off this weekend in California to mark the anniversary. San Francisco's Castro district has already begun the grim memorial.

770_spanbauerroad.jpg Michael Cunningham interviews author Tom Spanbauer, who has just published his latest novel Now is the Hour, in this week's HX. Spanbauer is quizzed about go-go boys, fiction, idols, and of the intertwinable literary pair, sex and death: "Sex stands right next to death. And it demands as much respect as death does too. Then there’s the voice that’s telling the sexual story. The reader almost has to feel as if the voice is going to break open any minute. The secret to voice is fucking with syntax. Saying it wrong. Character lies in the destruction of the sentence. How the voice destroys its sentences is how the heart is broken inside the character. Sex ultimately is about being held while you die a little. And the bigger the risk, the better the sex."

road.jpg New Yorkers to march across Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow for Marriage Equality.

road.jpg Minnesota Methodists vote to endorse gay marriage: "The half-dozen biblical references to homosexuality do not reflect what we understand today about loving relationships. This is an identity, not a sin."

road.jpg Another very brief interview with gay Vito from The Sopranos.

Posted 1:00 PM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, Health, Religion | Permalink

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  1. to think i was only 5 years old when the disease i would eventually contract was discovered. i am a 30 year old gay man living with HIV, and although there is still no cure i can vouch for the fact that major medical advances have been made. the treatment being offered today is better, even, than what was around 4 years ago when i was diagnosed. i take a once a day regimen of 2 pills, and i have no side effects from either of those medications. my viral load is undetectable, my t-cells couldn't be any higher, and i feel the healthiest i ever have. but i am one of the lucky ones. there is an entire continent of people dying of this disease today simply because they can't afford to get the medicine they so desperately need. AFRICA is becoming a nation of orphans, and not enough is being done to stop this. please go to makepovertyhistory.org to find out how you can make a difference.

    Posted by: david | Jun 2, 2006 2:20:38 PM


  2. I saw both the "Frontline" installments and was really amazed, both at some of the information presented and at how well "Frontline" had done in presenting it. I was born in ’74, so not surprisingly, my understanding of AIDS' history began with its appearance in the US, and I was surprised the earliest confirmed case dates to 1959. While the religious right’s babble about AIDS-as-punishment is clearly inherently ridiculous, their own argument about a retributivist deity visiting AIDS as punishment for (insert the things they don’t like in this space) is even less sensical when one considers that it began as a very straight disease in very non-Western, western Africa. The “Frontline” series is worth a look, even if you’re fairly well informed about HIV.

    Posted by: outlaw | Jun 2, 2006 2:42:58 PM


  3. You've really got to stop posting about Michael Cunningham. I have a real crush on the man -- literary and cute. No more need be said. I'm about to fall into a puddle. So, I must insist, stop posting any little ditties about Mr. Cunningham. I will not be held responsible for my actions.

    Posted by: Matt Florence | Jun 2, 2006 3:16:03 PM


  4. The Frontline program was so excellent. For some reason, I was surprised to see detailed interviews with Clinton...

    ~

    Posted by: Gilli | Jun 3, 2006 1:31:38 PM


  5. Does anyone know if part 2 is going to air again? I managed to see the first part at 3:00 this morning...

    Posted by: Jase | Jun 4, 2006 5:03:14 AM


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