HomeAuthor: DAN LUCKENBILL

Author: DAN LUCKENBILL

DAN LUCKENBILL

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What Ayn Rand Hoped You’d Miss

SET ASIDE how you feel personally about novelist Ayn Rand—perhaps you even went through a Rand phase in high school—but the fact is that she remains a force to be reckoned with in modern political and ideological life.

Book Review

The Lighter Side of Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey, author of those “forty small books,” whose effect was anything but small. The first one that I recall was The Curious Sofa (1961), subtitled “A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary,” ...

Essays

On the Domestication of Camp

Currently, what passes for camp in popular culture is sadly lacking in this innovative critique. In brief, camp has gone mainstream, and there’s no better example than the current mega-exhibition titled Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mounted by its Costume Institute, which attempts to piggy- back on camp’s gay legacyMore

Art

Stonewall Comes to the 100′ Screen

If one was wondering why the Newseum mounted this exhibit, “Into the Streets” answers the question: it views American gay history as a civil rights movement. The 1960s was a time when women and blacks were being liberated, notes activist Mark Segal, so “Why not us?” Someone else calls what Harry Hay began “the last civil rights movement of the 20th century.”
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