Rasheed Newson’s “My Government Means to Kill Me” fictionalizes the social movements that arose in response to the U.S. government’s lackluster response to the AIDs crisis. Newson’s robust knowledge of LGBTQ history shines through the novel, but it falls short in its capacity as a narrative, writes book columnist Natalie Ortiz PO ‘25.
Tag: 1980s
Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs explore a lost LA subculture
If you went to a drag bar in Los Angeles in the 1980s or ’90s, you might have seen a buoyant Reynaldo Rivera working the room.