ARTICLES by JOHN-MANUEL ANDRIOTE

WRITING ARCHIVE

Selected articles since 1983

How close are we to an AIDS-free generation?

The LGBT health movement 40 years since homosexuality was a mental illness

The mysterious past and present of witch hazel

An optimistic era for global infectious disease control

Breaking the cycle of prescription drug costs

Yeast: Love and fear, death and beer

The ACLU AIDS Project: Decades, on, still separate and unequal

No one should die from AIDS

Should the modern man be taking testosterone?

Should everyone HIV+ be required to disclose that to every sexual partner?

Every man a king: Henry VIII's worst affliction (gout) on the rise in America

Doctor, Not Chaplain: How a deeply religious surgeon general taught a nation about HIV

The prospects for a 'sterilizing' HIV cure: HIV 'co-discoverer' Dr. Robert Gallo reflects on the science

Legal drug-pushing: How disease mongers keep us all doped up

The power of choosing resilience

Revisiting Thoreau's "Autumnal Tints," 150 years later (featuring my photos of Walden Pond)

Curing Diabetes: How type-2 became an accepted lifestyle

HIV Services Know How to Love in a Plague

"We're going to be in trouble": AIDS groups plan for funding cuts

HIV/AIDS’ effect on aging: still unclear

Rediscovering the science behind Thoreau's Walden

"White Heritage"? It's Only Skin Deep

Get tested. Know your current HIV status. Don't be like me!

Claiming 'Gay Power' history for ourselves 48 years after Stonewall

What the war movie 'Billy Lynn' teaches us about resilience

Grieving for the America I thought I knew

'Christian' college gives heave-ho to professor for supporting LGBT people

AIDS at 35: Surprising life lessons from living with HIV

If it's hard to picture legal anti-gay witch hunts, watch this movie about Cameroon

EDM goes back to the future. Gaga and today's dance divas are the future

How HIV and Henry David Thoreau taught me to see

How LGBT history can inspire hope, support health, and even prevent HIV

The history, science, and poetry of New England's stone walls

Cover story

Excerpts from the 2011 revised and expanded second edition of my book Victory Deferred:

Is there still an AIDS crisis in the U.S.? It depends on who you ask

AIDS: Still a gay disease in America

The 'other' Connecticut, the Other America

Every Story Has a Function: Interview with Filmmaker Jennifer Fox about her Emmy-nominated film "The Tale," starring Laura Dern as a  young Jennifer as she retells "The Tale" of her experience of child sexual abuse.

Andriote interviews Elton John

From January 2011 to October 2013, I wrote a weekly column for the daily newspaper in Norwich, Connecticut (my hometown, to which I returned in 2007), focusing on local politics, economic development, history, and life in a much smaller city than I was used to--my old hometown. I collected all my columns, as well as other articles I wrote about eastern Connecticut in my 2015 book Tough Love.

Andriote and LARB editor-in-chief Tom Lutz interview John Rechy

(Rechy: "I do believe that is quite the best interview I have had.")

Andriote interviews Larry Kramer

(Kramer: "John, this is one of the best interviews of me, ever!")