[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Josh Weed, James McCourt, Upstairs Inferno, PrEP, Hall of Justice

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• NewNowNext notes the divorce of out gay Mormon Josh Weed from his wife, after they realized their marriage wasn't working. To his belated credit, he seems to be quite upset at the way that his personal story was used to justify homophobia.


• At The New Yorker, Michael LaPointe celebrates James McCourt's 1993 novel about the AIDS epidemic, Time Remaining.


• Towleroad notes the odd and harmful refusal of the Publix grocery store chain to let its insurance companies cover Truvada prescriptions, for PrEP.


• Drew Rowsome reviews Upstairs Inferno, a recent documentary about a fire in a New Orleans gay bar in 1973 that killed dozens and its aftermath.
  
• R.M. Vaughan reports for The Globe and Mail about the new Hall of Justice poster program in Toronto, aimed to popularize LGBTQ heroes.