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Was Achilles Gay? Wrong Question.
By Asa Williams
Before we call Achilles and Patroklos “gay lovers,” we must examine both the Greek language of love and the dangers of retroactively imposing modern categories.
Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Race
By Kelley Nele
In most communities across the globe, queer identities aren’t widely accepted, but in a world where it’s wrong to be gay, it isn’t always considered wrong to do gay.
From Pan’s Flute to TikTok: Review of MIX FEST
By Trinity Noone
MIX FEST, New York’s forum for queer experimental film, returned to Manhattan’s Quad Cinema in November.
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Finding Hope in Minneapolis
By Jamie Valentino
Perhaps I was naïve to think the risk of a natural disaster could make the federal government pretend it still held any regard for human life.
An Iconoclast in the Gay Community
By Scott Holleran
As I came out and years went by, I learned that romantic realism as an approach to life is marginalized in gay culture by cavalier bitterness, sarcasm, scorn, and regret.
The Village That Sustained Us
By Geoffrey Newman
My closest friend, partner, husband—someone I care for deeply—has struggled with heart disease for many years. We’ve been together for more than five decades..
Book Reviews
Art as Activism in the Plague Years
Curated and published by the private Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is a tribute to and compilation of the works of Gran Fury, the artistic collective that was formed in the 1980s adjacent to the activist group ACT UP.
China’s Living Dead
Unlocking the Red Closet is, like other books on this subject, a mix of sociological analysis and transcripts of the subjects’ interviews. There is mercifully little jargon, and the monologs are highly theatrical. And they are what make the book.
Boy Loses Boy
NOTHING CONVEYS the brutality and loss of war more than a child’s perspective. Sam Wachman’s The Sunflower Boys captures the enduring nature of love and forgiveness in the face of abysmal grief, along with the confusion and fear of war. The book is a present-day novel of coming-of-age for two Ukrainian boys in love who survive trauma and never give up searching for each other.
Cops in the Comfort Station
In The Long Beach Gay Trials, author Gerrie Schipske presents a narrative peppered with newspaper clippings, court records, archival material, and photographs.
Rough Trade
Wilke is quick to point out that in 19th-century America there was no sense of a “gay identity.” None of the men and women he writes about would have recognized the labels that would come later.
Step Inside My Life
LANA LIN both critiques and expands the range of Gertrude Stein with The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam. Taking as a model Stein’s 1933 classic The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which blurred the line between portrait and self-portrait, Lin narrates her story from the perspective of partner H. Lan Thao Lam.