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Drag Race Contestant Arrietty Spills the Tea
By Yesica Balderrama
“I don’t think I was prepared when it came to stress regulation. I went in there without the tools to control my emotions. It sucks that I did everything on TV.”
The LGBTQ+ Students No One Warns
By Dimitrios Aletras Jr.
Every September, institutions tell their students that they take sexual violence seriously. For LGBTQ+ students, that promise has always arrived with an asterisk. We can remove it.
Remembering a Pioneer in LGBTQ+ Activism
By Matthew Hays
Michael Hendricks was a core member of ACT UP Montreal, which he co-founded in 1989. He went on to help form a crucial bridge between the LGBTQ+ community and Montreal police.
Theater of Desire: Cruising Beyond Contact
By Oleg Olizev
The gathering was organized around spectatorship more than physical contact. Most of the men never touched. What held them together was a shared silence and a language of glances.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Students in Red States
By Brad Archer
Educators can meet the needs of their LGBTQ+ students while also mitigating the personal and professional risks they face within a rights-regressive legal and political environment.
Tyler Anthony Smith & the Theater of Camp
By Domenic DeSocio
“I’m against topical plays. I don’t want to see a play about the pandemic. I’m really against plays that have no sense of magic. For me, theater is magic. I don’t want realism.”
Singing the Life of a Trans Pioneer
By Joseph M. Ortiz
Tobias Picker’s score for Lili Elbe is often lively and multilayered, and at several moments it especially captures the jazz styles that were popular in Europe in the 1920s.
Saints & Sinners in the Eye of Fabián Cháirez
By Sergio Interdonato
Fabián Cháirez’ series, La Venida del Señor (The Coming of the Lord), recast Catholic iconography as homoerotic devotion and enshrined pleasure, using fetishized æsthetics throughout.
Luke Yankee: Glimpses of Marilyn
By Matthew Hays
“Marilyn Monroe was different because beneath all that radiance was extraordinary vulnerability. I think many gay men recognize something of themselves in her.”
On Twenty Years and Counting
By John R. Killacky
One of my most satisfying assignments was writing about the resurgence of interest in Julius Eastman, an outrageous presence in the avant-garde performance scene in ’70s New York.
