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Can I Get a Witness?

Wild Reeds director Andre Techine's new film, The Witnesses, is a reminder of an epidemic that cinema sometimes forgets.

The key to Robert Wilson

His brilliant theater defies explanation--yet it's all based on his life. How did a gay kid from Texas become the high priest of the avant-garde?

James West under the publicity lens

David Ehrenstein takes a look at the mediocre cover-up to save face for former Spokane mayor James West.

Rude boys

Brothers of the Head, about conjoined twins who get their sex on as punk rockers, is a strange, haunting, and feverishly hot new picture by life and filmmaking partners Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe.

What about the children

A close reading of the New York state supreme court's ruling against marriage equality reveals the usual myopic focus on those few children with two opposite-sex parents. And to hell with kids who have gay or lesbian parents.

Kinder gentler homophobia

What was up with 60 Minutes' bizarrely unbalanced report on the origins of sexuality? In part the answer is disgraced "scientist" J. Michael Bailey, who thinks gay men tend to be girly and bisexuals don't exist

Heavy hitter

With a new book of collected essays, activist, author, and radio host Michelangelo Signorile throws out his latest challenge to anybody--make that everybody--who stands in the way of LGBT rights

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Back to AIDS origins

A new documentary premiering on Sundance Channel February 7 asks tough questions about The Origins of AIDS