Sweatin’ with Cong. Schock
When Barney Frank came out as gay in his forties, he was relieved to discover that his constituents really didn’t care about the sex life of a middle-aged man, and…More
Author: RICHARD SCHNEIDER
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FREE Mini-Lecture – On Didier Eribon’s New Memoir
Didier Eribon is a French thinker whose works are discussed and debated at cafés — an intellectual historian who has often roiled the waters of the academic establishment. In this…More
“Rosebud!”
Gore Vidal surprised the world one last time when his will was read and he’d bequeathed his entire fortune of $37 million to—wait for it—Harvard University. The shocker was that…More
Class Project
Nineteen-year-old male student in the UK, Clayton Pettet, has announced that he’s planning to lose his anal virginity titled “Art School Stole My Virginity”
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Upsize This
Recently (December 7, 2013), The New York Times ran a piece that asked the age-old question, “How Many American Men Are Gay?” The op-ed piece by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, which included an…More
Rainbow Over Sochi
Russia’s growing hostility to gay rights has come to the world’s attention as we anticipate the Winter Olympics in Sochi. When the German team introduced its uniforms this fall, it…More
Triptych of a Price Tag
Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, considered the two most famous British modern artists of their time, explains all the hullabaloo around the sale of the former’s “Three Studies of Lucian…More
Amid the Recent Same-Sex Marriage Victories…
A White Elephant What are we to make of a lifelong Republican strategist and opponent of marriage equality who does a complete 180 and decides, not only that he’s now pro-gay…More
Are You Up for a Little Gay History?
WHAT you are about to see is a five-minute video with Prof. Richard Berrong discussing a new art book called A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World,…More
A Symbol Stands
A recent book has thrown a bucket of ice water onto an icon of GLBT rights. In The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, author Steve…More
