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A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry) by Reginald Shepherd

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The Broken Dandy

By Andrew Holleran: Byron went on to have a yearlong affair with a Greek-born French teenager named Nicolo Giraud when he moved to Athens.

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‘I always had crazy boyfriends.’ Phil Tarley talks with a (very) independent filmmaker

Interview with Bruce LaBruce by Phil Tarley.

Essays

Pervert Patient Zero

By William Benemann: Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton was repulsed by what he learned, but reluctantly concluded that, while Miss A. was clearly deluded in her attachment to her female lover, she was not technically insane.

Essays

How Evelyn Hooker Rattled the APA

By Wendy Fenwick: The major diagnostic tools at this time were a handful of “projective tests,” of which the Rorschach was the most important, typically supplemented by the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) and MAPS (Make-A-Picture-Story).
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