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Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the a View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Father Death Blues” from Collected Poems, 1947–1997 by Allen Ginsberg, © 2006 by Allen Ginsberg, LLC. Used with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Father Death Blues” from Collected Poems, 1947–1997 by Allen Ginsberg, © 2006 by Allen Ginsberg, LLC. Used with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “summer, somewhere” from Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, © 2017 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “summer, somewhere” from Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, © 2017 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Living Close to the Knives” and “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Living Close to the Knives” and “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “The Story of How He Happened” by Timothy DuWhite, ©2018 by the author, from the author’s website. Used with permission of the author; Bob Rafsky, eulogy for Mark Lowe Fisher, New York, November 2, 1992. Used with permission of Sara Rafsky; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by the author, from The Nation, March 6, 2017. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by the author, from The Nation, March 6, 2017. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by t View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegrati View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Postscript to “The Suicide of a Guy Who Once Built an Elaborate Shrine over a M View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Postscript to “The Suicide of a Guy Who Once Built an Elaborate Shrine over a Mouse Hole” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “From the Diaries of a Wolf Boy” from The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz, © 1996 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “From the Diaries of a Wolf Boy” from The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz, © 1996 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Steve Sp View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” and “You Passed Just Hours Ago” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” and “You Passed Just Hours Ago” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by the author, from The Nation, March 6, 2017. Used with permission of the author. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: People With AIDS Advisory Committee, “The Denver Principles,” statement presented at the National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 1983; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by th View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: People With AIDS Advisory Committee, “The Denver Principles,” statement presented at the National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 1983; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Steve Speranza View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Daniel Shapiro View fullsize

Light the Fight, 2018 Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the a
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Father Death Blues” from Collected Poems, 1947–1997 by Allen Ginsberg, © 2006 by Allen Ginsberg, LLC. Used with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “summer, somewhere” from Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, © 2017 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Living Close to the Knives” and “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by the author, from The Nation, March 6, 2017. Used with permission of the author.
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by t
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegrati
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Blur” from Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007 by Henri Cole, © 2010 by the author. Used with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Postscript to “The Suicide of a Guy Who Once Built an Elaborate Shrine over a M
Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “From the Diaries of a Wolf Boy” from The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz, © 1996 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Living Close to the Knives” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York; “Notes on Seroconversion” by
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, © 1991 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Steve Sp
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” and “You Passed Just Hours Ago” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Daniel Shapiro
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: People With AIDS Advisory Committee, “The Denver Principles,” statement presented at the National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 1983; “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by th
Light the Fight, 2018
Text: “Spiral” from Memories That Smell Like Gasoline by David Wojnarowicz, © 1992 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York.
Photo: Steve Speranza
Light the Fight, 2018
Photo: Daniel Shapiro