by Lawrence D. Mass Statement for World AIDS Day, Dec 1, 2022, presented under the auspices of Elsevier Science Inc, New York City and Amsterdam, hosted by Thomas Collins If I was serious in my attraction to the drama and adventure of medicine and the challenge of being a physician…

4 Decades, 4 Epidemics and the Future by Lawrence D. Mass, M.D. — statement for GMHC’s Fall Gala, 9/22/22, at Cipriani 25 Broadway, New York City — following an Introduction by Andy Humm Thanks so much, Andy, for your kind words, and for all you do and are. First, special…

GLITTER AND STAY GAY FOUNDERS DAY STATEMENT, 8/11/22 by GMHC co-founder Dr. Larry Mass So, here we are again. Year 41. We’re still here. But unlike Steve Sondheim and Elaine Stritch, we’re still above ground. And yet again we have to face the music of what needs to be done…

Arnie Kantrowitz and Staten Island by Larry Mass “By his example, openness, and honesty, Professor Arnie Kantrowitz, over more than a quarter of a century, affected the lives of many hundreds of vulnerable, questioning College of Staten Island students, and perhaps a few faculty and staff, too.” — John Adrian …

by Larry Mass Arnie’s gift, as everyone who knew him can attest, was his ability to commiserate, and thereby to console and heal. Arnold Kantrowitz, pioneering and beloved gay activist and writer, passed away peacefully in his sleep on 1/21/22 at the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in…

Statement for World AIDS Day 12/01/21 by Larry Mass When the first AIDS cases were reported in1981, we felt overwhelmed, to say the least. We weren’t sure what we were dealing with. Was it an STD? Multiple STD’s? Biological warfare? …

Gays, immigration and the endless challenges of consciousness and activism by Lawrence D. Mass In the mid 1970’s I began my journey of consciousness and activism as a watchdog for reactionary developments in psychiatry that threatened to reverse the 1973–74 declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder by the American…

OPERA QUEENS, FANDOM, WAGNERISM and GERMANY by Lawrence D. Mass “Despite Germany’s praiseworthy culture of remembrance, many Germans have a jarringly tenuous grasp of the extent of Nazi crimes or the population’s involvement.” — James Angelos Rosa von Praunheim’s Opera Divas, Opera Queens looks at the world of opera in Germany through the lenses of gay…

by Lawrence D. Mass How many sopranos have had their singing of Dove Sono, the Countess’s great aria in The Marriage of Figaro, described by one of the world’s most discriminating music critics as “note perfect”? Only a few of my closest gay friends knew of my clandestine career as…