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if we can claim a singular origin point for the business drag has become — an art-form-cum-enterprise with stars and wannabes and reality competitions and a network of performers, promoters, venues, and merchandisers — it would be that night in December 1981 at the Pyramid Club,
In Justin Torres’s lyrical new novel, “Blackouts,” these two forms — erasure poetry and queer history — collide to create one epic conversation between a pivotal 20th-century queer sexology text and two unreliable queer Puerto Rican narrators (or perhaps three, depending how you read the genre-bending conclusion).
Bratton has accurately drawn a protagonist stuck still by his pain, and the result is a story that for long stretches also feels stuck itself.