A new book uncovers the yearning romance that fueled the Aids-era artists’ life and work
Andrew Durbin, author and editor-in-chief of Frieze Magazine, spent almost five years writing The Wonderful Wor…
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We Know You Can Pay a Million by Anja Shortland review – the terrifying new world of ransomware ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR
The birth of ransomware was a stunt that got out of hand. In 1989, an evolutionary biologist called Joseph …
27 days ago
Love & Fury: how poster artists responded to the Aids crisis – in pictures ⊖⊖
A new exhibition explores how graphic design helped define New York City’s response to Aids from the late 1970s to the 2000s. Grassroots groups such as Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up created post…
41 days ago
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen review – a queer carousel of tattoos, fake moustaches and toddlers in tutus ⊕
From butch alter egos to radical images of motherhood, the photographer rises to the challenge of capturing her community in imposing and glorious style
Catherine Opie has done for butches what Hans …
69 days ago
‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis ⊖⊖
Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators
Michael Ely knew from the first moment he met James A…
83 days ago
‘A cash advance on your death’: the strange, morbid world of Aids profiteering ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In Oscar-shortlisted documentary short Cashing Out, a little-known industry that saw dying LGBTQ+ people sell their life insurance policies is remembered
During the summer of 2020, at the onset of the…
89 days ago
‘Love can be an addiction’: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency – in pictures ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
For the first time in the UK, the photographer’s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety – introducing new viewers to New York’s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she l…
3 months ago
‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar ⊕⊕
Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece
On 19 De…
4 months ago
Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher ⊖
Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable
Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context
Aids has always …
The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’ ⊕
Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflection
In 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was looking for …