Nigerian Love Affair
BOOKSTORES AND LIBRARIES are full of coming-of-age books by gay men, but Blessings isn’t your usual novel in that genre—an aspect that’s both appealing and aggravating.
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Grand Slam
Challengers stars Zendaya (already a Gen Z icon because of her role as Rue Bennett on Max’ lurid Euphoria series) as Tashi, Josh O’Connor (a young King Charles III on The Crown) as Patrick, and the lesser-known Mike Faist (a standout in the role of Riff in Spielberg’s West Side Story) as Art.
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Trauma for Sale
Each story [in Conversion] is told in stages through the course of the film, which also examines the particular hold of conversion therapy in religious communities and its powerful reach through charismatic male leaders like Alan Chambers and Joe Dallas of Focus on the Family, and McKrae Game of Hope for Wholeness.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of the books Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film<,em>, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide, Imperative to Spare, One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field, and XXX, and the exhibit George Platt Lynes at Work: The Gary Haller Collection
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AFTER A BRIEF HIATUS, here resumes my annual roundup of some of the films I saw at the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) in June. While not an LGBT festival, there are always plenty of suitable entries for this magazine. Here are four.
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The Horror of Repression
TRANS AND NONBINARY director Jane Schoenbrun’s new film, I Saw the TV Glow, is a disturbing and powerful meditation on queer identity and popular culture.
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‘Transatlantic Transformations’
Brilliant Exiles represents the culmination of years of research and study to restore the suppressed history of America’s female moderns. It belongs on the shelf of any reader interested in the cultural legacy of this period and beyond.
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THE IMPULSE for any minority to seek out safe spaces or sanctuaries exists in proportion to the oppression they suffer in their social world. From the Catacombs of Rome…More
A Quarterly of One’s Own
DECADENT WOMEN Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams Reaktion Books. 388 ages, $30. SET IN THE OFFICES of a Victorian magazine that he edited, many of Anthony Trollope’s later…More
An Exhibit to Revisit
A new catalogue for About Face published by Monacelli Press includes elucidating essays and texts by Julian Carter, Anthony Cianciolo, Amelia Jones, Ava L. J. Kim, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christopher Reed, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Dagmawi Woubshet. This lushly designed book with 300 illustrations is proof of concept for Katz’ curatorial vision.
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