April 1988 Teen Life: AIDS, Divorce & Dating A Rock Star
We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue!
Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce.
Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"
We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue! Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce. Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"QUICK LINKS
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TOPICS
๐ง Hello, It's April 1988
๐ง Us In April 1988 & Spine Line
๐ง Feature: My Best Friend Died Of AIDS
๐ง Feature: Dating A Rock Star: What Itโs Really Like
๐ง Feature: The Truth About Boysโ Bodies
๐ง Feature: The Divorce Is Only The Beginning
๐ง Fiction: What Sudie Didnโt Tell Me
๐ง On The Road: Austin
๐ง Body Talk
๐ง Help
๐ง What He Said
๐ง Goodbye For Now
NOTES
๐ผย Angels In America on HBO Max
โฅ๏ธย The Normal Heart on HBO Max
๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฆฐย Pose on Netflix
๐ย The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
๐ปย Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
๐งผย Brian Bloom on the cover of the December 1987 YM
๐ฎย Chuy's Barton Springs
๐ทย Tony O'Dell on Instagram
๐ดย The Again With This podcast
๐โโ๏ธย April 1988 Quiz: How Compatible Are you?