Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Several years after author Lizzy Goodman wrote Meet Me in the Bathroom, an or ...

Gabriel Trupin died of AIDS in 1995. Slam was diagnosed at age 18 in 1987, a frightening time when a positive test result often meant a death sentence. He booked the “Blond Ambition Tour” at age 21 ...