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SUMMARY:ONLINE AUTHOR PANEL: The AIDS Crisis and Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINK\\nThis year has seen the release 
 of two books exploring memory\\, loss\\, and the ongoing AIDS crisis thro
 ugh the lens of speculative fiction. \\nJoin award winning writers Randy
  Boyd and Sara Youngblood Gregory to learn more. Each author will read fr
 om their books and then engage in a conversation about their writing\\, i
 ncluding what we can learn from the similarities and differences that eme
 rge between their works. Moderated by Theodore (Ted) Kerr. \\nThis event
  takes place on Zoom\\, RSVPs will get a Zoom invite prior to the event d
 ate. \\nRandy Boyd is a novelist and essayist whose work centers on race
 \\, sexuality\\, survival\\, and the cultural legacy of the AIDS crisis. 
 He is a five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of four n
 ovels\\, including Uprising\\, The Devil Inside\\, Bridge Across the Ocea
 n\\, and Walt Loves the Bearcat.\\nSara Youngblood Gregory is an award-wi
 nning lesbian journalist\\, editor\\, and author. Her work has been featu
 red in The New York Times\\, The New Republic\\, Cosmopolitan\\, The Guar
 dian\\, and many others. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fello
 w at TransLash Media\\, covering anti-trans legislation and community org
 anizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023\\, Sara was the recipient o
 f the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year\\, he
 r speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet Riv
 er Prize from YesYes Books and was published in May 2026.\\nTheodore (Ted
 ) Kerr is a writer\\, founding member of the collective What Would an HIV
  Doula Do?\\, and the faculty advisor for 12th Street\\, The New Schoolâ€
 ™s undergraduate literary magazine. \\nThe Bureau of General Services—
 Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\\, located on the se
 cond floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and
  accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our c
 afe\\, The Bureau Cafe\\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. \\n12th S
 treet: Journal of Writing and Democracy\\, is an award-winning literary j
 ournal at The New School edited and published online by students in the W
 riting and Democracy Honors Program (WDH).\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-c
 anada/united-states/new-york/events/online-author-panel-the-aids-crisis-a
 nd-speculative-fiction-2026-11-19
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