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Costa Rica’s Flirtation with Right-Wing Politics
COSTA RICA is widely praised as the longest-running democracy in the Latin America and has always been among the leading nations in the Economist’s Democracy Index. But earlier this year, our democracy was hit by a phenomenon that’s spreading around the world: the rise of extreme conservatism.
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Bringing up the Body
This article was originally posted on www.thegamesmenplay.com, Georgette Gouveia’s blog. It is the subject of the second episode of the well-written, haunting new art historical series, “Civilizations,” now airing on PBS;…More
The Pleasures of James Elroy Flecker, 1884-1915
When I first read Flecker’s poetic ballad, I knew without any gender reference that he was addressing a young male. “It was no sooner than this morn/ That first I first found you there,/ Deep in a field of southern corn/ As golden as your hair.” And: “For we are simple, you and I,/ We do what others do./ Linger and toil and laugh and die/ And love the whole night through.”
MoreThe Life of an Escort in Urban Japan
YOU MAY THINK all escorts are all young, muscular men or slender women. This is an understandable generalization, but the truth is, anyone can be an escort. The Internet…More
“How Gay Were the Olympics?”
“How Gay Were the Olympics?” asked a headline in lgbtq Nation. The easy answer is: the gayest ever. For starters, this time around the athletes came out before the games…More
A Play about America’s Most Loathed Group
The first thing I noticed at HERE Art Center in Tribeca last month was a crowd of mostly white, middle-aged, New York literati types. And while normally this would be…More
One Billboard Outside Minneapolis
The message was simple: “Michele Bachmann, NO. — God.” However cryptic to outsiders, everyone in Minnesota knew exactly what it meant. The former congresswoman and darling of the Tea Party…More
Introducing: A Gay History of the World
AT 1,494,000 WORDS, A Gay History of the World is one of the longest works on homosexuality even written. It took three years to write, and the Internet was…More
What’s Hiding in Plain Sight at the MFA
CONSIDERING Boston’s reputation for Puritanism, you might expect the city’s Museum of Fine Arts to have a suitably sexless art collection. And yet, the MFA has one of the world’s…More
Mathilde Krim (1926–2018): A Personal Reflection
I MET and spoke with Mathilde Krim, who died on January 15th at age 91, some time in the mid-1980s, at a party to which I’d been invited at her…More