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Macho Macho Men
November 23, 2021
I am watching a video. In it, one man—handsome and extremely muscular, with bronzed, hairless skin—lies splayed on a hotel bed. He wears only white briefs. At the foot of the bed stands another man. He gazes at the reclining figure and slowly undresses—the video is getting ...

Against Our Vanishing
July 12, 2021
Before the publication of her photo book The Other Side in 1993, Nan Goldin asked her old friend Shellburne Thurber to return to the site of its namesake, the decadent drag bar in Boston that played slightly passé disco. Twenty years earlier, it had been their nightly hangout ...

The Queer Other
June 24, 2021
The West likes to fancy itself uniquely tolerant of queer people. Murderous violence against trans people may be on the rise in the United States and hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Germany may have increased 36 percent last year, but, we’re assured, it’s really ...

The Ties that Bind
October 29, 2020
A cloud of tear gas greeted Croatia’s first Pride march in 2002. The small crowd went into center of the nation’s capital, Zagreb, assailed by threats (“fags to concentration camps!” “die!”) and physical violence. Less than ten years later, a strange thing happened: ...