#aids-crisis

#aids-crisis

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is just around the corner, and with buzz building around the many features set to make their debut at the prestigious French soirée, we're finally- finally! -learning more about what should be one of the best & gayest movies at the fest. Premiering on May 20, The Man I Love is the latest from gay filmmaker Ira Sachs ( Passages, Love Is Strange). It's been described as a "musical fantasia" set in 1980s downtown NYC about an artist who "experiences a precious window between sickness and mortality-a time when beauty and love remain within reach."

Two graveyard shift nurses pray their patients pass overnight simply to cure their boredom. A crazed therapist tries to convince a victim that the perfect coping mechanism is matricide. The government rounds up and ships off the infected to a quarantined archipelago named Hell Gay Land. Forty years on from its release, the first notable feature-length film to tackle the AIDS crisis-dark German comedy A Virus Knows No Morals -undoubtedly remains the most provocative.

➡️ Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) is being targeted by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because it changed its name to be more inclusive of all genders. Our reporter Ryan Adamczeski got the organization's response. Plus, The 19th News reports on the complex history of LGBTQ+ immigrants in America, and a Democrat running for office in Illinois had a very sparkly reply to a Christian group's anti-transgender survey.

San Francisco's gay/lesbian community in the 1980s wasn't just facing an AIDS crisis, they also struggled against ongoing anti-gay violence. In 1989, in the midst of a campaign to legally establish anti-gay violence as a hate crime, MCC San Francisco made headlines when their AIDS minister was attacked in her home. The city, the police department, and the LGBTQ community rallied around the church and the minister. And when they finally solved the puzzle of who did it, the answer shocked the church.