I know that the erasure of history, while it might seem unimportant in the moment, is in fact always a crucial step on the road to autocracy. Indeed, the specific case of “deleting” trans people from the record is an action with a deeply troubling, almost century-old precedent…
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For all the many words written on Greenwich Village, two questions have never been adequately answered: why did Greenwich Village become the heart of American bohemianism, and the most visible site of American queer rebellion?
Read MoreAlignment, Not Transition
I sat down with Radclyffe to discuss the relationship between writing a memoir and living an authentic life, how he sees the relationship between Adult Human Male and Frighten the Horses, and his fascinating assertion that we’re thinking about gender “transition” completely wrong
Read MoreThis Sapphic Monster Novel Flips the Script on Queerness in Horror
Queer women have always been part of the horror genre. But in the capable, beckoning hands of Clements and Datta, we get to see the story from their perspective, with monsters made not from them, but for them. In “Feast While You Can,” queer desire is the cure, not the curse
Read MoreBook Review: A Modern Shakespeare Retelling Filled With Drugs, Sex and Trauma
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.
Read MoreThe Trashy, Freaky, DIY East Village Scene That Birthed Modern Drag
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,
Read MoreBLACKOUTS Review: A Radical Queer Novel Challenges the Idea of History Itself
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).
Read MoreWho's Afraid of Social Contagion?
We’re going through a Great Reorganization of Sexuality and Gender—the second such transformation in U.S. history.
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