The Promise: A Final Interview With Butch McKay
By Craig Washington | Feb. 25, 2026
I first attended the Positive Living Conference in September 2024 and again this past October 23 to 26, 2025. As a Black queer man living with HIV for 41 years — and as a writer, organizer and HIV prevention worker — I regard the Positive Living Conference, hosted by the nonprofit organization OASIS Florida, as a sacred space that must be safeguarded.
Carrying on in Paradise: Reflections on The Paradise Garage
By Craig Washington | Feb. 24,2026
I made it to my second Paradise Garage reunion held at Xanadu, a mammoth skating rink in Brooklyn, NY on August 31st, the Sunday before Labor Day. Every year, hundreds of disciples like me, affectionately known as Garageheads, gather and dance to the same tracks once spun by the legendary resident deejay Larry Levan who died in 1992.