Windows on Worlds Far from Home
Reviews of the movies: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, The Wedding Banquet, The Rebrand, I’m Your Venus, and Heightened Scrutiny
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July-August 2025
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Love across Cultures, with a Twist
A NICE INDIAN BOY is an exuberant film as well as a touching celebration of unconventional romantic love defying expectations. Director Roshan Sethi’s film also touches upon issues of family loyalty, cultural misunderstanding, and intergenerational conflict.
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On the Power of Books in Perilous Times
At the Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony on April 17 at the New School in New York City, writer and editor David Groff, a cofounder of the group, received the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award. Below are excerpts from his speech accepting the award.
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BTW
The Big Guns It took a series of improbable connections, but somehow a gay American porn star has become a symbol of resistance for Ukrainians in their war with…More
The View from Scandinavia
LET ME BEGIN this informal survey of reactions in Scandinavia to the Trump presidency with salient developments relevant to this region’s LGBT people. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been accompanied by a litany of executive actions that have changed the course of world politics.
MoreJames Le Baron Boyle: Camping It Up on Campus
WHILE DELVING into the Berg Collection archive at the New York Public Library, I recently unearthed a postcard sent in 1962 by a professor at the Pennsylvania college I attended. The card was addressed to William S. Burroughs, an old Harvard buddy of his then living temporarily in Paris. Burroughs, it will be remembered, was one of the most colorful figures in the American literary counterculture of mid-20th-century New York.
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March Laumer, a Gayer Oz
WHEN L. FRANK BAUM began writing his tales of Oz at the end of the 19th century, he could not have foreseen their endurance in popular culture well into the 21st. In addition to The Wizard of Oz and Wicked on screen and on stage, Baum’s characters have been re-imagined into many literary works, including those of an obscure author and publisher named Marsh “March” Laumer.
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