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Author: TIMOTHY MURPHY

TIMOTHY MURPHY

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In the Beginning Was Little Richard

Traveling back through the history of pop music with “the Queer Quartet” is a reminder, or a discovery, of these musical figures, depending upon your age.

Art

Edward Gorey’s Gothic Nonsense

L’Heure Bleue is a nocturne on love and loneliness, a reverie about all that could have been, confected from what was. Yet despite its blue mood, Gorey’s book has given heart to gay men

Essays

At Home with Quentin Crisp

The Greek painter and photographer Dimitris Yeros, a friend during Crisp’s New York years, wrote the following (translated by Nick Lingris) in his memory. He took a series of photos during a 1998 visit to New York.

Essays

The Sexual Economy of Revolution

THE “PHYSIQUE” photographers and periodicals of the 1950s and ’60s were not just a byproduct of the Homophile movement of this era, but were a catalyst for it. This in a nutshell is the thesis of a new book by David K. Johnson titled Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. These entrepreneurs, argues Johnson, supported the movement financially and fought the legal battles that got it going.
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