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February 14, 2025 0

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

By Jim Van Buskirk
Three decades after its 1995 exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, the Musée d’Orsay has co-organized another Gustave Caillebotte retrospective.

November 8, 2024 0

We the Parasites: Book Review

By Dale Corvino
We the Parasites is a deeply personal and ekphrastic poem-as-essay. It pursues its end to contaminate criticism with the queerest of methods. Dig in.

March-April 2025
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Essays

‘Warm Brothers’ in 18th-c. Berlin

In 1782, an Austrian officer reported on a network of depraved but sophisticated well-heeled men, a whole clandestine subculture organized around a specific social identity.

Essays

The House That Hirschfeld Built

Magnus Hirschfeld qualified as a doctor in 1892, when Berlin was the host to a fledgling gay subculture.

Art Memo

A Sacred Order for Sexual Outsiders

George Cecil Ives founded the Order of Chaeronea in 1897, named after the site of the battle fought by the Sacred Band of Thebes, made up entirely of male lovers.

Essays

Uranian Women, Unite!

With her speech to the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1904, Anna Rüling became the first known lesbian activist.
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