By David Osmundsen
All that time, we held hands. Sometimes, we shared a tiny kiss.
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AIDS nostalgia fuels Better Davis and Other Stories. This is not to mean a sentimental longing for the return of a time when the epidemic cusped in the early 80s, but rather a writer’s skillful reconstruction of the painful…
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Theatres have been dark since March of 2020. It’s been difficult not only for patrons who miss the theatre, but the industry was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. Everyone from actors to light operators to door staff…
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By Mitchell Anderson
Back then, if you were gay in show business, you were pretty much told to shut up about it. “Live your life,” they would say. “Just don’t make a big deal out of it.”
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By Wynward Oliver
When Jesús announced he’d invited Christopher Isherwood’s longtime lover, Don Bachardy, over for dinner, he acted as if he was daring me not to know my gay history.
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By Dale Boyer
Even as I admired the portraits of tortured people pursuing unattainable objects, I also found myself on a different plain of understanding about the foolishness of such pursuits.
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By Richard Schneider
From The G&LR‘s BTW column in its Holiday Issue (Nov-Dec).
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By Lynn Sally
But there is something significant about this moment, something that deserves telling. For here was a young person looking for inspiration not in unattainable beautify ideals, not in mainstream celebrities, but rather in the margins.
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By Stephen Fox
When I came out in the mid-1960s, gay people were closeted, and drag was an underground art.
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By Meredith Indermaur
I listened to and learned from LGBTQ people, starting with my own kid. I got connected to other Christian moms of LGBT children. And I prayed – oh, how I prayed. This was a true labor of…
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By David Masello
I have long wanted to live with a split pomegranate or raw oyster on the half shell, even a partially peeled lemon, whose rind corkscrews about the stem of a goblet of wine. I now live instead…
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By Tom Williams
During those nine months, I honestly never thought of HIV. Was I kidding myself? I obviously was. It didn’t occur to the doctors either. They didn’t know I was gay.
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By Elizabeth Burch-Hudson
I have not only found myself, but I have found out that I am not alone. As Jules expresses knowingly: how boring, how simple-minded and how unoriginal the world would be without us.
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History is not kind to queer stories. How many times have there been letters left in the attic or basement, long-forgotten since their original senders have passed on – delicate spidery script written on fragile parchment, touching declarations of devotion…
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By DJ Tombe
“I’m not gay.”
“No, you’re not. But you like girly stuff, and that’s okay. We can do this stuff when we’re alone.”
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