Tag: Obituary

Remembering Assotto Saint: A Fierce and Fatal Vision

“[Saint] knew he had to chronicle the black gay voices of AIDS or they would be lost. He had to collect the bits and pieces that would create a different kind of names quilt–the angry verses, the embittered stanzas, the breathy last couplets of the dying.”

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Obituary as History: The Lost Lives of the Queer Dead

The impact of obituaries for those relegated to the margins of mainstream society cannot be overstated…

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