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Donja R. Love has announced the Write It Out! Prize for playwrights living with HIV. The winner of the inaugural award will receive a cash prize of $5,000 funded by Tony and Emmy winner Billy Porter (
Pose, Kinky Boots), an opportunity to work with a professional dramaturg to develop a new work, and a stipend from GLAAD.
âThe WIO! Prize was created as a way of using Write It Out! to further center and support people living with HIV. This prize also boldly declares, whether public or not, that there are many amazing playwrights living with HIV in the American theatre who deserve adequate resources to alleviate financial strain so they can focus solely on storytelling,â said Love. Write It Out! was created in 2020 by the
Billy Porter to Fund New Prize for Playwrights Living with HIV
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GLAAD Lobbies Television Academy to Vote for Pose as Emmy Nominations Open
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LaQuann Dawson Discusses Erotic Self-Portraits and New Black, Gay Art Anthology
By Mikelle Street
In a new book, the New York City-based photographer and filmmaker LaQuann Dawson proposes a love letter to the city s queer communities. Created in collaboration with Impulse Group New York, Dawson performs as curator for
Our Light Through Darkness, an anthology of photography, essays, erotica, illustrations, and poetry from queer artists that begins shipping this month.
“What you are about to witness is a series of images and stories collected from queer artists across NYC and beyond,” Dawson said of the project in a release. “It portrays erotic self-portraiture, HIV survival stories, poems about sex and love, joyous illustrations, and so much more. My hope is that this book will help further immortalize us and serve as proof that we exist and that we will continue to exist. I hope that our visibility will show queer people all over that they are not alone and they do not