Solo- and Autosexuality 101
Remember the days when homosexuality was considered abnormal? Now it’s solosexuality that’s challenging what’s normal sexuality for an adult.
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The Sexual Economy of Revolution
The “physique” periodicals of the 1950s and ’60s were not just a byproduct of the Homophile movement. They were a catalyst for it.
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At Home with Quentin Crisp
DOES ANYONE DOUBT that most autobiographers distort reality, embellishing the truth about themselves, altering the facts relating to third parties, and presenting things in their own best interest? This makes Quentin Crisp’s case exceptional. He achieved something that was almost beyond the humanly possible …
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Edward Gorey’s Gothic Nonsense
Gorey, who died in 2000 at the age of 75, was the author and illustrator of a hundred-odd darkly droll little picture books with titles like The Fatal Lozenge, The Deranged Cousins, and The Blue Aspic. Although he grew up in Depression-era Chicago and lived most of his life in Manhattan, first-time readers often assume he was a denizen of gas-lit London.
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In the Beginning Was Little Richard
Rocking the Closet takes us back to pre-liberation days in the same way that Guy Davidson’s Categorically Famous (reviewed in the November-December issue) reprised the careers of Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin to show how celebrities in the ’60s danced around the subject of their homosexuality while paradoxically opening the closet door.
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Call Me by No Name
Baldwin, Sontag, and Vidal refused to come out, but their sexuality was an open secret. “Proto-visibility” means their homosexuality was visible before it could be acknowledged publicly.
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The Great Cover-Up
The casualness of nudity in all-male environments is documented in a wide range of sources right up to the postwar era.
MorePrison Sex: The Case for Tolerance
While the prevalence of rape may be exaggerated, the threatening and coercive nature of prison itself creates gray areas of consent.
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What’s ‘Un-African’ Is Homophobia
It is homophobia that was brought by the missionaries who came to Africa and curtailed most of our sexual practices, including heterosexual ones.
MoreNext Frontier: Employment Equality
The Supreme Court will hear three cases to settle whether Title VII safeguards LGBT people from workplace discrimination, with decisions likely next June.
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