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A New Open Access Edition of Acclaimed AIDS History
By John Manuel-Andriote
Aging without the friends and lovers we expected to know all our lives, deep sorrow lurks, always, just beyond our laughter. How has it impacted our lives in the twenty-first century?
Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
By Wendy Rouse
When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I wouldn’t find much. They weren’t wrong.
The Porousness of Queerness
Julian Carter in conversation with Jonathan David Katz about Carter’s new book, Dances of Time and Tenderness, published June 2024.
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Young and Gay in Montana
By Scott Terry
I was still rodeoing, but had given up bull riding. During hunting seasons, a hunting rifle was hanging in the gun rack in the back window of my truck. Being murdered didn’t seem likely, if I could successfully conceal that I was gay.
The Sum of My Parts
By Oliver Radclyffe
But even if I had still been closeted, I knew it would be almost impossible to form a cohesive narrative from the confusing evidence laid out in front of me. It had taken me over forty years to figure it out myself, and I was the main suspect.
When You’re An Outlier
By Michael Varga
I want to complain about being an outlier, but the minute I begin to form the words, I catch myself. You see, I have been an outlier before. And then, I had no complaints.
Book Reviews
She’s Got the Look
Unsuitable is likely to surprise and enlighten even readers with an extensive knowledge of the history of women-loving women. It would make a great basis for a documentary film.
Three ‘Song Languages’
HERE ARE three recent titles from among an abundance of new poetry from independent publishers. The variety and mastery of these poets’ distinctly different voices are exhilarating: Our tribe of LGBT poets contains many song languages, and we need their full range.
On Her Way to Warhol
Cynthia Carr’s new, rigorously researched biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar traces the short, difficult, and remarkable life of Candy Darling from her early school years through her painful death from leukemia and lymphoma in 1974 at age 29.
The Discipline of Drag
This memoir is the fourth book from the world’s most famous drag queen, who cemented his celebrity status in the 1990s with his hit single “Supermodel” and now inhabits popular culture with his long-running reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, with its many international spin-offs.
Cool in Both Senses
Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life provides illustrative backstories and perceptive insights into Gunn’s life and work. Nott was a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn (2022) and draws upon that research, along with interviews as well as the artist’s notebooks and diaries, to produce the new biography.
Live from the Limbo Lounge
CHARLES BUSCH’S landmark plays for the Theatre-in-Limbo (1984-1991) were the product of a very particular yet short-lived cultural moment, the final flourishing of the Theater of the Ridiculous movement that goes back to the mid-1960s and is most closely associated with Charles Ludlam.