Springtime: “The Age of Innocence”
BY “The Age of Innocence” I have in mind the cultural period just before the medicalization of homosexuality in the early 20th century, when it was still possible to…More
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If Winter Comes… ‘Larger Than Life’
Intro to the January-February 2023 Issue.
MoreHoliday Issue: ‘The Empty Couch’
LET US celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to delist “homosexuality” as a mental illness in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This is the…More
Autumn Comes: ‘Queens and Kings’
From the Editor.
MoreSummertime: ‘The Lure of the Sea’
THE PHRASE “land’s end” has been applied to any number of seaside locales, perhaps most famously to three places in the U.S.: Provincetown, Key West, and San Francisco. The…More
‘Don’t Say Gay’ Comes from a Tired Playbook
Now that “Don’t Say Gay” is law in Florida, DeSantis and his cronies are building on their sinister success by banning books. So far they’ve excluded over fifty textbooks that teach math in favor of books from just one company, Accelerated Learning.
MorePride Issue: ‘Radical Pursuits’
WHAT’S “RADICAL” is always defined in relation to prevailing attitudes and norms. The idea of same-sex marriage was so radical in the 1970s—at the height of the Gay Liberation…More
Spring Break: ‘Artful Dodges’
THE THEME of “Artful Dodges” (with apologies to Dickens) refers to the ways in which artists have set about to circumvent restrictions on the presentation of the human body…More
Winter Dreams: “Sexual Awakenings”
THIS ISSUE’S THEME has a subtitle: “The postwar origins of LGBT sex culture.” The “sexual awakenings” of the title are ones that began to stir after World War II and…More
Supreme Court Ruling Puts Kids at Risk
LAST JUNE, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in Fulton v. Philadelphia) that the city of Philadelphia must resume offering contracts to a religious organization that discriminates against same-sex couples…More