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Your gay elders: We survived AIDS, we can survive this.

When it was announced that Rock Hudson had AIDS on July 25, 1985, a young woman at the summer stock theater where I worked ran through a group of her fellow actors, singing: “Rock is dead,” from The Who song “Long Live Rock.”…

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Anti-LGBT university re-opens because of faith in Trump.

Liberty University, the conservative Christian school founded by anti-LGBTQ activist Jerry Falwell, is opening its campus this week to thousands of students, faculty, staff, prospective students, families, and anyone doing business with the school. University President Jerry Falwell Jr. defended…

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SF to LA AIDS/LifeCycle canceled after 26-year tradition.

AIDS/LifeCycle will not return this year due to COVID-19 concerns, halting the annual fundraiser for HIV/AIDS service providers for the first time since it began in 1994. The cancellation, which came in an announcement last week, has been emotionally “devastating,”…

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Out playwright Terrence McNally has died of COVID-19.

A giant of the American theater, Terrence McNally has died of complications from COVID-19.  An 81-year-old lung cancer survivor with chronic pulmonary disease, McNally died in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital, according to Deadline.  While celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson…