HomeAuthor: John D'Emilio

Author: John D'Emilio

John D'Emilio

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September-October 2020
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Books from a More Honest Time

By Andrew Holleran. I chose a book called A Proust Souvenir. … Then I came to an old favorite, its binding broken by time and use: My Father and Myself, by J. R. Ackerley. … Next I paired a travel book with a biography. The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930), by W. Somerset Maugham, is an account of a trip he made by sampan, donkey, and on foot through Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Frank Kameny’s Revolutionary Idea

ERIC CERVINI is the author of The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America. The book is both a biography of gay rights activist Frank Kameny and a history of the times in which he lived and organized the first protests for homosexual rights in the 1950s and ‘60s. This interview was conducted as part of a live, on-line series titled “Zooming through Queer Culture.”

Essays

Dispatches from the Pandemic

By Steven F. Dansky. Around the world, masks have been the one recurring metaphor to symbolize the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, masks serve a social function and can be used in communal rituals to promote the cohesion and the well-being of a community, as protection from evil spirits, or to ward off sickness. Often in poetry a mask trope alludes to disguise, secrecy, and maintaining hidden identities.

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Is Covid Crushing Queer Culture?

By Michael Musto. I was also transformed by midnight showings of the musical sci-fi spoof The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which had become an interactive experience that attracted young gays who dressed like the characters and threw rice at the screen on cue.
Blog
1. October 16, 2020 Influential LGBTQ Playwrights
2. October 1, 2020 A Book Is Still Your Best Pandemic Friend
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