In New AIDS Activist Memoir, Keiko Lane Aims to Articulate the Inexpressible
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When I was working on my most recent anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis, I received a submission from Keiko Lane about joining ACT UP and Queer Nation in Los Angeles as a 16-year-old Okinawan American lesbian in 1990. That piece, an excerpt from Lane’s memoir-in-progress, became the first chapter of the anthology because it…