Visual History: Intimate and Beautiful Portraits of Italian Older Gay Men

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/24/wish-it-was-a-coming-out-older-gay-people-in-italy-in-pictures

Public Health Has an Equity Problem: A Latinx's Voice

Public Health Has an Equity Problem: A Latinx's Voice: Public health has an equity problem. One of the main pillars of our public health system, schools and academic programs of public health, are under the control of white (heterosexual) faculty. They continue to exclude brown, black, and indigenous people from their faculty and leadership ranks. This racism pervades institutional policies and culture and is a major fault in the quest for health equity. In this essay, I center on the experience of Latinx faculty to examine the roots of this inequity and the arguments for diversity and inclusion. I also propose avenues for change and argue for institutional transformation that goes beyond adding people of color to faculty and leadership roles.

Don't ask a question for which you know the answer already

Last night -- the 30th-something day of shelter in place -- I watched Chavela -- the documentary of the great Chavela Vargas. What treat! Then, I found out, this morning, that Almodovar had a similar night, a few weeks ago, in is home in Madrid.


Cliche it might be, but the universe is small.

Chavela defies labels -- she is not, or was not, a lesbian -- she and her friends corroborate this. She does not fit our current categories of LGBTQ. She lived in a different cultural language, one in which "don't ask a question for which you know the answer already" was the social norm. She was out, a womanizer, a recurrent drinking buddy with the guys, a a bit homophobic, and a queer heroine for many in Latin American and Spain.


She once thought a boy how to use a gun to make him macho, less feminine. She wanted to make him masculine. She rejected labels and applied them, at the sametime -- unable to escape them.