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March 11, 2019 0

A Podcast: Merrily He Strolled Along

David LaFontaine – a trained singer and pianist – decided to record a few of Stephen Sondheim’s songs for our readers. So, we rented time in a sound studio in North Cambridge, MA and produced this podcast.

February 12, 2018 0

Artist Profile: John-Manuel Andriote, author of Stonewall Strong

FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, John Manuel-Andriote has been a critical voice on hiv-aids in such periodicals as The Advocate and The Washington Post. In 1999, he published Victory Deferred:…More

October 30, 2017 0

Portrait Painter Juan Bastos on His Upcoming L.A. Show

JUAN BASTOS is a portrait painter whose career will soon be on view at a major retrospective of his work at the Denenberg Fine Arts Gallery in West…More

October 7, 2016 0

Editor, Richard Schneider on Healing Stigma

In this episode of Healing Stigma on Left of Str8 Radio, Richard Schneider, founder and editor-in-chief of The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, joins Kevin Hogan and Scott Fullerton for a lively,…More

July 15, 2016 0

Sarah Schulman on Her Latest Provocations

I first encountered Sarah Schulman in January 1997, when she was a speaker at “Literature in the Age of AIDS” in Key West. That was a world ago.…More

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Books from a More Honest Time

the house had books—books I’d been accumulating and hadn’t looked at in many years. A lot of them were in a bookcase I discovered only when a friend took an old recliner that I’d stashed on the porch long ago to the town dump. The moment he did, I realized it had been hiding aMore

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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.”

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Dispatches from the Pandemic

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?

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.
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