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Let’s Choose Each Other Again
By Randal C. Smith
No relationship is perfect. No love is untouched by disappointment. No bond survives without negotiation, humility, and repair. What matters isn’t whether love lasts forever.
Was Achilles Gay? Wrong Question.
By Asa Williams
Before we call Achilles and Patroklos “gay lovers,” we must examine both the Greek language of love and the dangers of retroactively imposing modern categories.
Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Race
By Kelley Nele
In most communities across the globe, queer identities aren’t widely accepted, but in a world where it’s wrong to be gay, it isn’t always considered wrong to do gay.
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A Decade of Fellow Travelers
By Kevin Newbury
The Fellow Travelers opera is based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel, a powerful gay love story set against the backdrop of the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare.
Finding Hope in Minneapolis
By Jamie Valentino
Perhaps I was naïve to think the risk of a natural disaster could make the federal government pretend it still held any regard for human life.
An Iconoclast in the Gay Community
By Scott Holleran
As I came out and years went by, I learned that romantic realism as an approach to life is marginalized in gay culture by cavalier bitterness, sarcasm, scorn, and regret.
Book Reviews
Art as Activism in the Plague Years
Curated and published by the private Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough is a tribute to and compilation of the works of Gran Fury, the artistic collective that was formed in the 1980s adjacent to the activist group ACT UP.
China’s Living Dead
Unlocking the Red Closet is, like other books on this subject, a mix of sociological analysis and transcripts of the subjects’ interviews. There is mercifully little jargon, and the monologs are highly theatrical. And they are what make the book.
‘Mother’ and ‘Son’
BRYAN WASHINGTON’S latest novel, Palaver, is a quietly powerful story about the complexities of relating to family and friends.
Short Reviews
Brief Reviews of the books It’s Not the End of the World, Bangkok after Dark: Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies, A Most Infamous Young Swindler: The Short Tragic Life of Thomas Langrel Harris, Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color, Twist, and television series ,Monster: The Ed Gein Story,
Rough Trade
Wilke is quick to point out that in 19th-century America there was no sense of a “gay identity.” None of the men and women he writes about would have recognized the labels that would come later.
Cops in the Comfort Station
In The Long Beach Gay Trials, author Gerrie Schipske presents a narrative peppered with newspaper clippings, court records, archival material, and photographs.