"I am eager to burn this threadbare masculinity." Essex Hemphill, dead at 38, still holding the line. https://twp.ai/9OXYeK #EssexHemphill #Poetry #QueerHistory #Pride #LGBTQ #AIDS #IndieMedia

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What Survives the Morning: Burning Hands, Cool Clay

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Wendy The Druid
"I am eager to burn this threadbare masculinity." Essex Hemphill wrote that mid-plague, while a government refused to name the dead. He died at 38 in 1995. We hold his line in the sternum today.
https://twp.ai/4hsJSG
#EssexHemphill #Poetry #QueerHistory #Pride #LGBTQ #BlackQueerHistory #AIDS #Resistance #QueerNews #IndieMedia
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My #pride month babes, I regret to inform you that the youngs on #TikTok have found out that the lyrics of the 1989 version of "The Little Mermaid" were written by a #gay man who was dying of #AIDS and are posting their tearful reactions to "Part Of Your World" and I'm not crying you're crying.

#LGBT #LGBTQIA

AIDS – In Zeiten der Liebe (1/3): "Frühlingserwachen" l Dokuserie von ZDF aspekte

1984 verlässt Künstler Heiko Zolchow mit seiner großen Liebe Dirk Nawrocki die DDR – doch die neu gewonnene Freiheit wird zur Gefahr.

ZDF

So, TIL about #Jobriath (#BruceWayneCampbell) who was the first openly #Gay rock star (and who died of #AIDS in 1983). #NYMike on #WMPG highlighted Jobriath and other #Gay musicians on today's #MindFuzz!

Jobriath's entry in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobriath

Documentary about Jobriath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3POFWowtE

#WMPG #PrideMonth #GayMusicians #GBLTQ #ProtoPunk

Jobriath - Wikipedia

Don’t forget that one of several reasons the L in #LGBTQ is at the front of the acronym is to honor the lesbians sitting at the beds of gay men dying of GRID / #AIDS, holding their hands when no one wanted to be even near them. They took care that as few as possible had to die alone. #queer #history

📰 Maik de Boer dacht dat hij aids had

https://nieuwsjunkies.nl/artikel/1H4e

🕞 15:34 | RTL Nieuws
🔸 #AIDS #Afscheid #Boer #Podcast

Maik de Boer dacht dat hij aids had

Maik de Boer (65) heeft onthuld dat hij ooit dacht dat hij aids had. De stylist vertelt in de podcast Lightless Lounge van Nikkie de Jager en Wes van Os dat hij zelfs afscheid nam van het leven, omdat hij ervan overtuigd was dat hij ziek was.

RTL Boulevard

📢 Several African nations are resisting #US #aid agreements tied to access to #minerals, #health #data, and strategic concessions, raising concerns over sovereignty and transparency -

🔹 African governments have expressed concerns over terms attached to new US health assistance packages aimed at combating #HIV #AIDS, #tuberculosis, #malaria, #disease #outbreaks

#news #africa "African states push back against US aid-for-access demands"

📰 Report Al Mayadeen JUN-02

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/health/african-states-push-back-against-us-aid-for-access-demands

#History #Americans #Aids #LGBTQ+ #Video #alt

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
AIDS QUILT

Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987.

https://youtube.com/shorts/xYujbuCJWNg?si=z2yYa60TNT4ceT5l

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Narrated by Cleve Jones

YouTube

Baloji – Buy Africa

https://amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orchestre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/

“Buy Africa” is a cover of Fela Kuti’s song by Baloji & L’Orchestre de la Katuba, Feat. Kuku for Red Hot + Fela, the tribute album released in 2013. The original song was recorded at Abbey Road for the album “London Scene” in 1971 (see below).

To understand where Fela’s musical quest […]

#Congo #FelaKuti #Cover #Afrobeat #Nigeria #Rap #AIDS