Hank Trout

Oct 5, 2024 | sfbaytimes.com | Hank Trout

By Hank Trout–In the summer of 2016, I read an advance copy of Cleve’s memoir When We Rise in order to review it for A&U (Art and Understanding) Magazine, and wrote a praise-heavy review, lauding the book as an invaluable addition to queer movement history. When the time came to meet for an interview, I started getting really nervous. This was a major interview, and the story would be my first on the cover of the magazine.

Sep 3, 2024 | sfaf.org | Hank Trout

Federal agency issues new definitions for older adults with HIV and AIDS. It’s not a new issue, but one that sparks many conversations. Who “counts” as a long-term HIV survivor? And who qualifies for the programs and services designed for people aging with HIV, and/or people who have lived many years with HIV (or AIDS)?

Sep 2, 2024 | glreview.org | Hank Trout

Published in: September-October 2024 issue. CANDY DARLINGDreamer, Icon, Superstarby Cynthia CarrFarrar, Straus and Giroux364 pages, $30. To continue reading this article, please LOGIN or SUBSCRIBECynthia Carr’s new, rigorously researched biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar traces the short, difficult, and remarkable life of Candy Darling from her early school years through her painful death from leukemia and lymphoma in 1974 at age 29.

May 30, 2024 | sfaf.org | Hank Trout

For HIV Long-Term Survivor Awareness Day, Hank Trout shares the stories of long-term survivors--and how they're come to terms with surviving after so much loss. As HIV Long-Term Survivor Awareness Day approaches (it’s on June 5 every year), I’ve been thinking about a question that most of us have been asked at some point during the last forty years: Why do you think you are still here when so many of our friends and lovers died as a result of AIDS-related causes?

May 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Hank Trout

Published in: May-June 2024 issue. DISORDERLY MENby Edward CahillFordham Univ. Press. 342 pages, $28.95SOMETIMES our pre-Stonewall history can feel downright prehistoric. Few of us lived through Senator McCarthy’s red-baiting and the “lavender scare,” when LGBT people were purged from jobs in the federal government. Some of us do, however, remember times when our bars and clubs were routinely subjected to police raids, which continued into the late 1970s.