Business
July 25, 2020
Texas’s Oldest Lesbian Bar Faces Its Latest Challenge: Surviving the Pandemic
A mainstay of Dallas queer nightlife, Sue Ellen's is thought to be one of about ten lesbian bars left in the U.S.
AIDS
Arts & Entertainment
October 14, 2019
When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.
Health
February 26, 2016
Texas A&M And The Gates Foundation May Have Created A Supercondom
It fights AIDS even when it breaks, helps a fella out, and claims to feel better than not using a condom at all.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 2015
Dr. Spitzer May Abstain, But Teens in His District Don’t
State Representative Stuart Spitzer wants Texans to abstain from sex out of wedlock, but the statistics show the teens have their cars a-rockin’ in his district.
Essay
January 14, 2015
My Brother’s Secret
Growing up in my family, there were things you just didn’t talk about. Like feelings. Or sex. Or dying from AIDS.
Health
February 1, 2008
Sunil K. Ahuja
The mysteries of AIDS are starting to unravel in the laboratory of this professor of medicine, microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Working with, among others, Dr. Matthew Dolan, formerly of the Wilford Hall Medical Center, at Lackland Air Force Base, Ahuja has
Health
May 31, 1998
Rx for Scandal
The poor quality of health care in the state’s penal system is enough to make you sick. Plus: Inside Tex Moncrief’s IRS mess; a River Oaks bookie is tried for murder; UT’s writing program achieves Texas-size success; and things get woolly for thestate’s mohair producers.
Books
May 31, 1997
The Doctor Is In
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success.
Being Texan
April 1, 1993
“Why Us?”
Since AIDS infected their lives, the proud, the deeply religious Allens have been left to ponder the eternal questions of faith and suffering.
Business
November 1, 1992
Grim Reaping
As bills mount, AIDS patients sell their life insurance policies—in Waco.