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It is with total sadness I hear the news that the founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and ACT-UP, writer and playwright Larry Kramer has died at the age of 84, we are surely poorer without him. Every gay person in America owes him our very lives. 

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My Place: Florence Welch

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“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.” Sally Rooney.

Normal People, Episode 1.

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Angels in America (2003) Directed by Mike Nichols

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sophocles - electra (tr. anne carson) / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / tony kushner - angels in america part ii: perestroika / lani maestro - no pain like this body / fyodor dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov (tr. ignat avsey) / morgan martinez - insecurity opportunity

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keanu reeves by Deborah Feingold (1989) set 2

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“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a. m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

— Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“It’s not you. It’s anyone. Sometimes I don’t want anyone around. Some afternoons I lie on my bed and the light comes through the shutters on the floor and I think I never want to leave my own room.”

— Joan Didion

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Live Dec. 1, 1993 in San Francisco

My favorite among her tunes

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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but there are so many things that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous, or brief. And every one of those things is in you all the time, if you just have the guts to look for them.

Pleasantville (1998) dir.Gary Ross

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She ran six miles in the snow? WIND RIVER (2017) dir. Taylor Sheridan

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

(2019) Dir. Céline Sciamma

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it’ll pass

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Les Princesses de Légende, 1899 by Antoon van Welie (Dutch, 1866–1956)

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The future of the species is finally unearthed. 

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve 

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