The Seagram: New York’s Gayest Building
THE SEAGRAM BUILDING and I are about the same age, but as my hair continues to silver and the parentheses bracketing my mouth make me ever more parenthetical to the…More
Blog Posts
Leslie Feinberg Beheld a World without Gender
IN Transliberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (1998), the late writer-activist Leslie Feinberg, who preferred the gender-neutral pronouns hir and ze, described hirself as “a masculine feminine”: “I do not identify…More
Grant Wood’s Glimmerglass Surprise
THE CAMPUS OF GLIMMERGLASS OPERA Festival rolls up the mountain shore near the north end of a strayed-east Finger Lake named Otsego, ten miles north of Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of…More
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True Colors Theocrats of the religious Right have always hitched their version of God to an “America First” brand of patriotism that was quick to brand others as traitors. That’s…More
Letters to the Editor
If They Mated: Carson and Gypsy To the Editor: I was glad to see David Kaplan’s piece on Tennessee Williams’ friendships [in the Jan.-Feb. 2015 issue], including his…More
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Anal Chic It would be hard to think of a more fashionable hunk of real estate than the Place Vendôme in Paris, that center of haute couture and five-star hotels…More
What Diversity Looks Like
Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers Edited by Wendell Ricketts FourCats Press. 486 pages, $18.95 THE COMMERCIALIZATION and mainstreaming of gayness is very much on…More
The Revolution Was Photographed
The importance of documentary photography is ever present in Anthony Friedkin’s The Gay Essay, a portfolio of photographs from the late 1960s to the early ’70s that focuses on the gay liberation era in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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Random Acts of Kindness
Pride Directed by Matthew Warchus Calamity Films EARLY ON IN PRIDE, after the leader of a ragtag group of London gay activists has proposed that they raise money…More
Silent Partner
In Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist,
and the Politics of Gay Love in America, Terry Mutchler writes about the confusion of early courtship and the thrill of the consummation, about stealing a kiss in the darker corners of the capitol building.