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LONDON, England — “Hi, I’m doing some research for The Financial Times on the pink pound: how the recession has affected the gay community?...
DIED At the time, AIDS was a mysterious illness that seemed to target only gay men. But Joel Weisman, 66, a California physician, co-authored the 1981 report that signaled the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, which has since killed more than 25 million people worldwide...
...since James Baldwin has a black gay writer achieved the success of E. Lynn Harris. While exploring the boundaries and taboos of sexuality, Harris--who died on July 23 at 54--turned the black community and the literary world upside down, with 10 consecutive New York Times best sellers and more than 4 million copies of his work in print. Unlike Baldwin, Harris wrote for the masses, introducing readers to a fabulous world teeming with prosperous but morally conflicted black characters...
Born Everette Lynn Harris in Flint, Mich., he quit his job at IBM in his mid-30s and sold his first novel, Invisible Life, out of the trunk of his car to beauty salons and bookstores. A source of inspiration for black gay men, his once forbidden stories about their relationships caught on with female fans: for years, it was virtually impossible to ride the subway in New York City, Washington or Atlanta without coming across a black woman reading one of his novels...
American Psychological Association • conclusion of that therapeutic efforts - or even extreme measures like exorcisms - to change people's sexual orientation from gay to straight (the only kind of change there seems to be much demand for) don't work...