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Almost like a kind of ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ for the...

As shown in What I Love about Being Queer, queer kills gay dead

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An immediately recognizable gay boy (21st-century edition)

In All Out, a dual autobiography with his dad Kevin, young 21st-century gay ginger Alex Newman shows his life story is exactly the same as most gay boys’ from time immemorial

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A surprising subject for the ‘New Yorker’

Michael Nava, Mexican-American homosexualist author of Mexican-American-homosexualist mystery novels

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“They did a lot else other than die”

Gore Vidal, about his nephew, who died of AIDS: “We should try to recall that the victims of this plague have often had splendid lives. And, certainly, they did a lot else other than die”

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Book of the year

Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)

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‘Cruising the Movies’

Boyd McDonald, of Straight to Hell infamy, watched old movies in his fleabag rooming house. “Apart from the æsthetics, we know, do we not, who is more intelligent: Men who have sex or queens who...

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Braithwaite

No one is going to write a Kathy Acker–manquée biography of Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

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Alboism

Mike Albo: ‘I am trying to feel things in my body, which is hard to do. When someone says something like “Where do you feel that?” or “What does that feel like?” I have a really hard time answering’

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‘Creation’

Excerpt from John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay

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Needlessly nasty feminist litbloggeuses

Julia Fleischaker and Jessa Crispin are and were needlessly nasty to men (and one man in particular)

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‘When Men Meet’

Some excerpts from the obscure but quite excellent When Men Meet by Henning Bech of Denmark

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‘True Homosexual Experiences’

The long-awaited biography of hermit pornographer Boyd McDonald of Straight to Hell includes one gem after another

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All the white people in Tim McCaskell’s book

Tim McCaskell’s memoir proves white gay men and lesbians built gay Toronto

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“They did a lot else other than die”

Gore Vidal, about his nephew, who died of AIDS: “We should try to recall that the victims of this plague have often had splendid lives. And, certainly, they did a lot else other than die”

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Book of the year

Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)

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‘Cruising the Movies’

Boyd McDonald, of Straight to Hell infamy, watched old movies in his fleabag rooming house. “Apart from the æsthetics, we know, do we not, who is more intelligent: Men who have sex or queens who...

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Braithwaite

No one is going to write a Kathy Acker–manquée biography of Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

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Alboism

Mike Albo: ‘I am trying to feel things in my body, which is hard to do. When someone says something like “Where do you feel that?” or “What does that feel like?” I have a really hard time answering’

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‘Creation’

Excerpt from John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay

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Needlessly nasty feminist litbloggeuses

Julia Fleischaker and Jessa Crispin are and were needlessly nasty to men (and one man in particular)

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