HomeAuthor: Greg Varner

Author: Greg Varner

Greg Varner

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Essays

Lorca in Vermont: The Untold Story

Lorca’s intimate relationship with Philip Cummings—and the poems it inspired—was overlooked for fifty years. This omission was not an accident.

Essays

Call Me by No Name

Much has happened between Rod McKuen’s era and the present, but when Steve Lacy … answered on Tumblr the question of whether he was gay or straight, it was with a demurral that brings to mind McKuen: “I’m human.” Or, as Lacy put it on Twitter: “Let’s delete the whole closet concept and just let kids be themselves without having to announce what/who they’re into sexually.”

Essays

The Great Cover-Up

For millennia in European societies, men have never hesitated to strip in front of other men to wash, bathe, or swim. It was only in the 19th century that the bathing costume was invented to allow men and women to swim together—which itself marked a significant socio-sexual revolution.

Essays

Prison Sex: The Case for Tolerance

While the prevalence of rape may be exaggerated, the threatening and coercive nature of prison itself creates gray areas of consent.
Blog
1. December 9, 2019 The Science of Silencing Hate
2. December 6, 2019 A Riot in Name Only
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