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Our Pick for the Oscar: Dallas Buyers Club
HOW DID AIDS change the struggle for GLBT rights? The question has been debated from different angles ever since it became clear that the epidemic would irrevocably alter…More
Whither Gay Rights in India?
ANOTHER FIRST! The “India Conference at Harvard” is an annual, weekend-long, high-visibility event held at the Kennedy School of Government (on February 15th and 16th). This year, for the first time, the conference featured a panel expressly devoted to gay issues, titled “LGBT Rights in India: The Way Forward.”
The need for such a panel now can be traced to a recent ruling by the Indian Supreme Court …
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Kinky Caps
And now, coming to you from Mobile, it’s the Prancing Elites! Down main street they sashayed, part of the Christmas parade in Semmes, Alabama, a town of 2,000 that wasn’t…More
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
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