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Queer Layers at the Oscars
By J. Ken Stuckey
This year’s Oscars were peppered with moments of diversity and inclusion. It’s too bad almost none of those moments will be remembered
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By Charles Green
BASED ON Charles M. Blow’s 2015 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black in Louisiana, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season … making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met.
A Zoom Interview with novelist Brian Broome
By Richard M. Berrong
I had the pleasure of interviewing writer Brian Broome over two sessions conducted on Zoom in December, 2021.
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Rejection Made Me Stronger
By Byron Kennard
My parents didn’t kick me out, but they did kick me out of their hearts. And I mourn the loss of their love to this day.
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By Alessandro Ghidini
I could not make out what he was saying, but it didn’t matter: he was not talking to me.
MoreA Life in the Theater
By Gary Eldon Peter
“Effeminate.” I had heard that before, in all its variations, both nouns and adjectives.
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