“My life was always dependent on my needs and also the network of people needing to depend on me”
Daniel Sanchez Torres
Daniel Sanchez Torres is a storyteller and culture worker working between the East and West coast. He spends his time thinking and writing about photography, sex, HIV and culture. More of his work can be found on his website supdst.com and he can be found trying his best on Twitter @sup_dst
Aristotle and Dante are back. Nine years later, author Benjamin Alire Sáenz delivers the sequel to a beloved queer YA love story
“It is one thing to fall in love. It is quite another thing to stay in love”
First Lady Nancy Reagan befriended gay men, then betrayed them
The legacy of the Reagan presidency’s callous handling of the early HIV/AIDS crisis still haunts us today
‘Edge of Seventeen’ remains a coming-out classic
Starring Lea DeLaria in one of her earliest roles, the film’s message, she says, still holds up 20 years later
His smell haunts me, even after he disappeared from my life
I tried to commit the layers and notes of his aroma to memory so that I had no regrets when he left
Navigating a situation-ship at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic
I replay the circle of love and rejection while death stalks