September-October 2024
BRUCE LABRUCE’S CINEMA occupies a liminal space between haute couture pornography and experimental narrative film. The prolific artist-provocateur is releasing his new book, The Revolution Is My Boyfriend, to coincide with his fifteenth feature film, The Visitor.
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Byron went on to have a yearlong affair with a Greek-born French teenager named Nicolo Giraud when he moved to Athens.
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In late 19th-century America, most physicians shared Dr. Monroe’s revulsion at the very idea of same-sex activity, but an enlightened few noted that in Europe things were beginning to change, and they asked their fellow physicians to reconsider their loathing.
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It was Evelyn Hooker who pointed out that defining homosexuality as a “mental illness” was based on an untested assumption.
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Harry Benjamin spearheaded the medicalization and the legitimization of transgender health care.
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Developing the bomb was not the only secret that Schwob was harboring. There was also the matter of his sexuality—something of an open secret.
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A measure of The Front Runner’s cultural reach is that it has made its way into other works of gay literature. In Tales of the City, author Armistead Maupin credits The Front Runner with starting the craze for wearing running shoes when clubbing.
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