ONLINE AUTHOR PANEL: The AIDS Crisis and Speculative Fiction

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This year has seen the release of two books exploring memory, loss, and the ongoing AIDS crisis through the lens of speculative fiction. 
Join award winning writers Randy Boyd and Sara Youngblood Gregory to learn more. Each author will read from their books and then engage in a conversation about their writing, including what we can learn from the similarities and differences that emerge between their works. Moderated by Theodore (Ted) Kerr. 
This event takes place on Zoom, RSVPs will get a Zoom invite prior to the event date. 
Randy 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 novels, including Uprising, The Devil Inside, Bridge Across the Ocean, and Walt Loves the Bearcat.
Sara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist, editor, and author. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, and many others. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fellow at TransLash Media, covering anti-trans legislation and community organizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023, Sara was the recipient of the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year, her speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and was published in May 2026.
Theodore (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 School’s undergraduate literary magazine. 
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore, located on the second 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 cafe, The Bureau Cafe, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. 
12th Street: Journal of Writing and Democracy, is an award-winning literary journal at The New School edited and published online by students in the Writing and Democracy Honors Program (WDH).