This Country Is Still That Country

Some Lessons I Learned From ACT UP That Have Stood The Test Of Time.

For the last few months as readers of this blog know, I have been reading blog drafts from my old blogs as a part of researching my own past. I came across a fragment that stayed with me from a 2008 New Dramatists fundraiser for my friend the playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, who had broken his clavicle.

Jorge and I had met 18 years before that on the …