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.
Read MoreThe Unknown Librarian Who Saved Queer History
You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.
Read MoreThe Thrilling Power of Queer Indifference
Perhaps you have noticed, of late, that society is “collapsing.” That the incoherent babbling of the vicious and insane now dominates prime-time news and every corner of the internet…
Read MoreThe Last Free Woman
The first words Nan McTeer ever said to me were, “I’m currently in hospice care. I have lung cancer, it has metastasized to my brain, but my mind is still okay! You’ve got a while to pump me for information.”
Read MoreA Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time
History, as it is taught, is a straight line of dominoes falling — the relentless clack of fact hitting fact, an orderly queue of causality stretching on forever. History, as it is lived, is a reeling spiral of flight and return; the iterative reawakening of new selves in familiar places;
Read MoreWHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER Wins the 2019-2020 NYC Book Award
I am delighted to announce that WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER is a winner of the 2019-2020 New York City Book Awards, given out by the New York Society Library.
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Hugh Ryan & Avram Finkelstein Win the 2019 Allan Berube Prize
On the (Queer) Waterfront, the first comprehensive historical exhibition on LGBTQ life in Brooklyn, elegantly recasts the history of New York’s most populous borough as a site of long-standing and diverse LGBTQ communities. Meticulously researched and sophisticated in its approach to how gender and sexuality have changed over time as well as why they matter to urban history, it serves as a model for LGBTQ public history in the twenty-first century.
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