My latest update about participating in HIV cure research at Boston's Ragon Institute. If you've been on HIV meds for 15 years or longer and live in or near Boston, Cleveland or SF, you can participate too. Read on!
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Folks - my Caftan Chronicles interview for November is with four-time Olympic gold diver Greg Louganis, now 62 and training dogs in L.A. Check it out and please consider subscribing to Caftan for $5/month. Thank you!
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Morning, folks. Can you make a small donation to help me reach my goal of $5K to buy warm winter clothes (in partnership with NYC Dept of Homeless Services) for the 20,000+ new migrant arrivals to NYC? Thank you.
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Happy Monday, folks! Please consider donating something to this fundraiser I am running to get winter clothes and other essentials to the roughly 20,000 asylum seekers, including many families with small children, who have come to NYC in recent weeks.
gofundme.com/.../help-me-ge...
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Thank you Instinct Magazine for this chat about my Caftan Chronicles interview series with older gay men. I am so delighted that this passion project I started about a year ago is taking off!
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Please donate to this fundraiser I'm doing with NYC's homeless agency to buy essentials for our nearly 20,000 newcomer asylum seekers. Thank you.
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My October Caftan Chronicles interview is with the drag and porn legend Chi Chi LaRue! What a convo. Check it out - and please consider subscribing to Caftan if you haven't already (in which case I thank you VERY MUCH!)
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Can and will the city fully honor the right-to-shelter law in its accommodating of the more than 13,000 asylum seekers (and counting) who've come to NYC in recent weeks? I wrote about it.
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Folks, my September Caftan Chronicles interview is with hot fashion photog (and current Jersey boy) Mike Ruiz, well-known from the reality shows ANTM and RPDR. Much was discussed—family, marriage, leather sex and more. Check it out!
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I wrote about efforts to raise New York State's minimum wage starting next year and peg it to inflation thereafter. Currently it's $15 in NYC, Westchester and Long Island and $13.20 everywhere else.
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Folks, my August Caftan Chronicles interview with is Jim J. Bullock - MONROE from "Too Close for Comfort." Check it out...we laughed & cried for 4 hours! And please consider subscribing!
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Hey folks, I'm fundraising for toys, toiletries, clothes. etc for my local shelter for women and kids here in Ridgewood Queens. Anything you can give is appreciated! 🙏🙏🙏
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Porn Legend Tom Chase Is Nearly 60 And Wants To Make More Films on The Caftan Chronicles
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I am so excited to share my Caftan Chronicles interview for Pride month - it's with Andrew Holleran, author of the iconic "Dancer from the Dance," and also the gorgeous new "Kingdom of Sand. Please consider supporting The Caftan Chronicles at $5/month!
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I talked to those who remember Kathy Boudin, who just died at age 78 of cancer. While incarcerated at Bedford Hills women's prison north of NYC, she cofounded an inmate-led HIV/AIDS education and counseling program that became a national model.
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Here's my Caftan Chronicles chat for May...with Canadian LGBTQ activism pioneer and Glad Day Bookshops founder Jearld Moldenhauer. We DISAGREED on a few issues, as you'll see! Please consider supporting this labor of love for $5/month. Thank you!
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I'm participating in HIV cure research...and other folks living with HIV, you can too! Read on...
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I interviewed , the fabulous Davina on "Transparent," about her new memoir "This Time for Me." It's a great read! Oh, wait? Do I mean the memoir or our interview, you ask? BOTH!
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Hey folks...here's my April Caftan Chronicles Q&A...with gallerist and archivist Sur Rodney Sur, who was at the center of the 1980s East Village art scene. This 4-hour chat gets juicy! Please consider subscribing for $5/month to read the whole thing.
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I am so excited to announce I have a new novel coming out Summer 2023!
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Russia's invasion is imperiling Ukraine's great work on prevention, care and treatment for folks living with HIV and/or engaging in injection-drug use. Longtime Ukrainian activist and plwHIV spoke to me.
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So excited to drop the latest interview in my Caftan Chronicles series—with the sole surviving producer of the 1970s Manhattan gay cable TV show "Emerald City TV." Many episodes included here! What a time machine! Please subscribe to Caftan - $5/month.
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NYS Assemblymember and health chair , who has played such a key role in HIV and LGBTQ legislation the past 50 years, is retiring soon—but wants to pass single-payer healthcare first. Here's our chat.
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It's my February Caftan interview...w/ Matthew Bank, cofounder of late, great NYC gay club rag HX. The rise, fall, aftermath, rivalries, drag queens, DJs, go-go boys, escorts...it's all here! Please consider subscribing at $5/mo so you get the whole chat! thecaftanchronicles.substack.com/p/matthew-bank?
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My first Caftan Chronicles interview with a notable gay man "of a certain age" for 2022 is so fun...it's with Dennis Mori, who was creative director of International Male in the 1980s. Please consider subscribing to my labor of love.
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My story on how NYC became the first U.S. city to open overdose prevention centers—and why what may sound like a crazy idea actually saves lives and provides services. Who'll be next? Philly? Seattle? D.C.? Read on and guess...
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In the nick of time, TheBody is running these 25th-anniversary memories I compiled earlier this year of 1996, the year of the HIV treatment revolution that saw death rates start to plunge and (many, not all) people come back to health and life.
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It's my last Caftan Chronicles interview of 2021! Please subscribe for $5/month to help me keep 'em coming! Thanks to those who've already subscribed!
Meet the 50-Year Couple Whose Iconic Bar Pulled Chicago's Gay Community Together, by
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Here's a tribute I wrote for Bardo, the #lgbt sancturary bar of #beirut which just closed after 15 wonderful years amid multiple troubles in #lebanon.
thebody.com/article/bardo-?
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Folks, here's my "Caftan Chronicles" gay man interview for November—with beloved downtown NYC arts figure Nicky Paraiso. Have a taste here—and if you subscribe for $5/month or $50/year, you read the whole thing!
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Just like Bill Arnold, the remarkable Dorothy Keville is yet another person who helped save the life of millions of American living with HIV whom hardly anybody's heard of. Well, that stops now! Read my interview with Dorothy and BUY HER BOOK!
I desperately wish I found Dave Chappelle's AIDS joke funny. But I don't., by
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So excited to unveil my Caftan Chronicles chat for October—with the incredible choreographer David Rousseve. Please consider subscribing to this monthly series for only $7/month!
The Many Realities of Choreographer David Rousseve, by
I loved having this great convo with about "Undoing Drugs," her new history of the harm reduction movement (needle exchange & much more) in the U.S. We covered so much ground...check it out!
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Here's my October "Caftan Chronicles" extra-long interview...with Nicky Siano, a Brooklyn boy who pioneered disco in 1970s NYC. Packed with photos and music. Please consider subscribing at $7/month...1/4 of all payouts goes to that month's interviewee!
Openly HIV+ Mexican-American porn star Boomer Banks shared with me some saucy thoughts on the OnlyFans porn ban (and reversal), ongoing HIV stigma and why, in his view, only white people can dismantle white supremacy in the skinbiz.
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I'm so bananas over this new podcast that I decided to write a Substack about it. It's also a bit of a thematic teaser for my next interview, which hopefully will be out by the end of this coming week! Consider subscribing! Thank you.
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