Hank Trout

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Senior Editor at Art & Understanding Magazine

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Surviving Voices: Oral history of HIV lifetime & long-term survivors

1 month ago | sfaf.org | Hank Trout

In honor of National HIV Long-Term Survivors Day, survivors featured in an upcoming documentary film being screened on June 5 share their stories of resilience. We went through this horrible experience that was full of fear and uncertainty and loss and grief year after year. And… that does something to a person.
Daggers and Pansies in the Jazz AgeThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

Mar 1, 2025 | glreview.org | Hank Trout

Published in: March-April 2025 issue. CRAZEby Margaret VandenburgJaded Ibis Press. 248 pages, $17.99THE PREFACE to Margaret Vandenburg’s latest novel, Craze, is the opening paragraphs of a 1933 article in the weekly tabloid Broadway Brevities under the headline: “6,000 Crowd Huge Hall as Queer Men and Women Dance at 64th Annual Masquerade.” The article goes on: “Queer people … are increasing. Dances are their big social events. … Most of the ‘women’ in attendance at the orgies are men in disguise.
At the Table or On the Menu?

Feb 7, 2025 | poz.com | Hank Trout

Recently, I became aware of a very disturbing development in the class-action lawsuit filed by patients against the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. Disturbing enough on its own, this development forefronts other issues that we long-term HIV/AIDS survivors and others living with HIV need to address. Some background: Gilead Sciences is one of the primary pharmaceutical companies manufacturing and marketing anti-HIV medications.
Guest Opinion: Betrayed by our advocates

Jan 15, 2025 | ebar.com | Hank Trout

Mark S. King's January 10 blog post on his award-winning "My Fabulous Disease" site made me aware of a new, and troubling, development in the class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical behemoth Gilead Sciences Inc. For background: Gilead is one of the primary pharmaceutical companies manufacturing and marketing anti-HIV medications.
On World AIDS Day, Vince Crisostomo reflects on more than 35 years of service to the AIDS Generation

Nov 18, 2024 | sfaf.org | Hank Trout

Crisostomo, SFAF’s Director of Aging Services, will receive the Thom Weyand Unsung Hero Award from the National AIDS Memorial Grove this December 1. When Vince Crisostomo volunteered as a buddy to visit terminally ill HIV/AIDS patients in New York City hospitals in 1985, he had no inkling that he would make his life’s work serving the AIDS Generation. In fact, he didn’t anticipate living past age 30.
The Fall of the House of WildeThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

Nov 1, 2024 | glreview.org | Hank Trout

Published in: November-December 2024 issue. THE WILDESA Novel in Five Actsby Louis BayardAlgonquin Books. 304 pages, $29. THE CHALLENGE of writing historical fiction—creating an interesting story with lifelike characters within the constraints of historical facticity—becomes even more difficult when the historical figures and events are widely known or readily googled for a quick refresher.
Cleve and Me - San Francisco Bay Times

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.
Who “counts” as a long-term HIV survivor?

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)?
On Her Way to WarholThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

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.
Why are we still here when so many of our friends and lovers died?

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?

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Hank Trout

Articles

Surviving Voices: Oral history of HIV lifetime & long-term survivors

Daggers and Pansies in the Jazz AgeThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

At the Table or On the Menu?

Guest Opinion: Betrayed by our advocates

On World AIDS Day, Vince Crisostomo reflects on more than 35 years of service to the AIDS Generation

The Fall of the House of WildeThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

Cleve and Me - San Francisco Bay Times

Who “counts” as a long-term HIV survivor?

On Her Way to WarholThis article is only a portion of the full article. If you are already a premium subscriber please login. If you are not a premium subscriber, please subscribe for access to all of our content.

Why are we still here when so many of our friends and lovers died?

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