A measure of The Front Runner’s cultural reach is that it has made its way into other works of gay literature. In Tales of the City, author Armistead Maupin credits The Front Runner with starting the craze for wearing running shoes when clubbing.
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This memoir is the fourth book from the world’s most famous drag queen, who cemented his celebrity status in the 1990s with his hit single “Supermodel” and now inhabits popular culture with his long-running reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, with its many international spin-offs.
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Cynthia Carr’s new, rigorously researched biography Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar traces the short, difficult, and remarkable life of Candy Darling from her early school years through her painful death from leukemia and lymphoma in 1974 at age 29.
MoreHERE ARE three recent titles from among an abundance of new poetry from independent publishers. The variety and mastery of these poets’ distinctly different voices are exhilarating: Our tribe of LGBT poets contains many song languages, and we need their full range.
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A pivotal moment in her personal and professional life occurred in 1935, when Gisèle Freund met the feminist writer and publisher Adrienne Monnier at her renowned bookstore, La Maison des Amis des Livres.
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Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life provides illustrative backstories and perceptive insights into Gunn’s life and work. Nott was a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn (2022) and draws upon that research, along with interviews as well as the artist’s notebooks and diaries, to produce the new biography.
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CHARLES BUSCH’S landmark plays for the Theatre-in-Limbo (1984-1991) were the product of a very particular yet short-lived cultural moment, the final flourishing of the Theater of the Ridiculous movement that goes back to the mid-1960s and is most closely associated with Charles Ludlam.
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THE ORIGIN STORY for Diarmuid Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears begins in Cambridge, England, when the author had a realization that the queer history of that place was disappearing.
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CHANGE by Édouard Louis Translated by John Lambert Farrar, Straus & Giroux 256 pages, $27. EDOUARD LOUIS’ memoir Changer: Méthode, published in France in 2021, has recently been translated…More
CAMEROONIAN WRITER Musih Tedji Xaviere’s debut novel, These Letters End in Tears, focuses on the illicit love affair between two women who are willing to risk their lives to be together.
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