“Many Gay Men of My Generation Weren’t Planning to Die of Old Age”
Lambda Literary Award–winning poet Mark Bibbins on his new collection, 13th Balloon
“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear,” Susan Sontag wrote in 1989. “Real diseases are useful material.” In AIDS and Its Metaphors, Sontag argued that the virus had been stigmatized as a plague, “a disease to be regarded both as something incurred by vulnerable ‘others’ and as (potentially) ...
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