Come Through for Me
WHEN I MOVED to New York after college in the summer of 1980 to find a job in publishing, I took regular breaks from my daily search at a…More
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Illusions Lost and Found
SEPTEMBER 1965: a half century on, it’s not easy to follow my movements with perfect accuracy, but here goes. I was staying up in Westchester County with Cheryl R., a…More
At the Hidden Core of the Big Apple
THE INTERWAR YEARS, from the Armistice of 1918 until Pearl Harbor, were fertile for cultural productivity in New York City. Gay men and lesbians were at the heart of accomplishments…More
The Hijacking of Lesbian History
THIS YEAR, as America’s two oldest women’s music festivals—Michigan and National—prepare to celebrate landmark fortieth anniversaries, a number of powerful organizations have signed a petition against the Michigan festival, endorsing an economic boycott of all artists who perform there.
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Under the Fashion Juggernaut
Dana Thomas’ book Gods and Kings is about two gay British designers, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, and their remarkably parallel careers.
MoreThe Price of Going Mainstream
Assimilation into a dominant mainstream has always been a thorny issue for minority groups seeking acceptance. It would be cranky to begrudge the millions of gay men and lesbians…More
Roman Holiday
Michael Mewshaw’s memoir of Gore Vidal opens like The Rocky Horror Picture Show: an innocent young couple in a vehicle are about to meet someone monstrous. Only in this case…More
America through a Gay Glass, Darkly
Kramer is making the case that America from earliest times foreshadowed its response to AIDS, and indeed facilitated the development of AIDS.
MoreDoug Ireland’s Passion and Praxis
What follows is the introduction to a forthcoming collection of Doug Ireland’s essays, edited by the author of this piece, titled The Emperor Has No Clothes: Doug Ireland’s Radical…More
Lesbians, Please Leave the Stage!
The audacious French theater director André Antoine felt compelled to write to an author whose play he had accepted for production that he would have to cancel the performance.…More