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 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.
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;
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