Author: David LaFontaine

David LaFontaine

January-February 2023
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Features

Bright Lights That Dimmed Last Year

IN KEEPING WITH our annual tradition, we remember here some of the people who left us over the past year—the writers, artists, performers, and activists who made a significant contribution to LGBT culture and community. All dates are in 2022 unless otherwise indicated.

Features

Urvashi Vaid, Creator of Change

By Richard Burns: Urvashi’s deepest happiness was rooted in her decades-long love affair with Kate Clinton. That gave her so much joy.

Essays

Richard Howard’s Threatening Poetry

What makes Richard Howard so discomforting and so important (the two in my mind are always linked) was his insatiability, not just as an intellectual, not merely as a translator, critic, and poet, but as a sensibility that could never see enough, never feel enough, never know enough, who wished to feel each moment notMore

Essays

The Capriccios of Jimmy Wright

By Wes Hartley: Jimmy was eager to explore the harlequin mosaic of queer diversity. He had all the skills necessary to turn those impressions into art. Jimmy Wright was born an artist.
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