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About Tennessee Williams What follows is the first English translation (by Mark Oshima) of a piece by the great Japanese novelist, poet, and playwright Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), which appeared in the September 1966 issue of Higeki Kigeki(“Tragedy and Comedy”).
The Lighter Side of Edward Gorey Edward Gorey, author of those “forty small books,” whose effect was anything but small. The first one that I recall was The Curious Sofa (1961), subtitled “A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary,” ...
Hugh Ryan Discovers a Hidden Brooklyn This interview was conducted by phone this past June. I had a chance to chat with Ryan about his goals in writing When Brooklyn Was Queer, the conversations he hopes to instigate, and his thoughts on the trajectory of lgbtq politics today.
The Big Picture (in Pictures) Part [of We Are Everywhere] opens with the memorial held in Los Angeles in 1994 to honor Dorr Legg, cofounder of the interracial homophile social club Knights of the Clock and co-publisher of ONE, Inc., the first homophile magazine in the U.S. Attendees included pioneer gay rights activists Jim Kepner and Morris Kight as well as legendary gay rights activists and rivals Hal Call and Harry Hay...
Take It from John JOHN WATERS’ latest book, Mr. Know-It-All, is purportedly an advice book, but really it’s simply more of what Waters fans have come to expect: lively, gossip-fueled, name-dropping storytelling, rolled out by one of America’s greatest living raconteurs. The book can be broken down into two main parts, the first being a chapter for each of his most recent films, the second his reflections on a variety of themes and ideas.
While They’re in the World Numerous studios passed on Rocketman for being “too druggy” or “too gay.” Not Paramount Pictures, which was bracing itself for a crash landing. Yet Rocketman crossed the $70 million mark within a month of its May release and in spite of the sex scene between Elton and his manager John Reid (played by Richard Madden), to whom he lost his virginity at the age of 23. It was important to John that the film not shy away from their joyous first encounter between the sheets.

“A Gay Wedding?” I asked Gerd in German. It was late April; we had just ordered our suits – comparable blue ones, mine blue with a silver vest and his blue gray – and we were discussing plans for our July wedding in our apartment in Berlin where we had lived together for the past four months.

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