July-August 2025
Walk Like a Girl is an unflinchingly honest account of a life lived precariously, never accepted fully in any circle he moves in. His acknowledgement that even fashion design is political, his clear-sighted awareness of his own complicity in some systems of oppression, and his conscious attempts to challenge those systems makes this a memoir that may earn an important place in the history of fashion.
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THE SUBTITLE of Fierce Desiresannounces an ambitious agenda: “A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America,” hinting at a challenge to John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman’s influential book Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, first published in 1988 (with subsequent editions in 1998 and 2012), which conceptualizes American sexuality as the historical development of privacy, moving from the primacy of the family toward greater individualism.
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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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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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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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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
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.
MoreWHILE 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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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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