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posted Sunday, August 18, 2024
All Friends Are Necessary tells the story of Efren “Chino” Flores, who has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a loving wife, and a child on the way—that is, until a stunning loss upended his life. […]
posted Thursday, August 15, 2024
Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief, bright burning moment shaped British, American, and world culture. In 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousness of music lovers in Britain, the US, and beyond, as albums by the Specials, the Selecter, Madness, the English Beat, and the Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a […]
posted Monday, August 12, 2024
Evenings and Weekends follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend. Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. […]
posted Thursday, July 18, 2024
Traveling: On The Path of Joni Mitchell is written by Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers, who explores the life and career of Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. This is not a standard account of the life and work of this fascinating individual, but […]
posted Saturday, June 22, 2024
From the opulence of the late 1980s to the present day, Bartsch possesses an innate ability to capture the spirit of the moment. Her legendary parties and diverse events continue to serve as the stage for an extraordinary convergence of people from around the world. From visionary artists to sex workers, fashion designers, cabaret stars, […]
posted Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Guncle is the latest novel from the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. It’s a warm and deeply funny tale about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved […]
posted Sunday, June 16, 2024
The Long Hallway is about growing up queer, closeted, and afraid. Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense childhood identification with Michael Myers, Carpenter’s inscrutable masked villain, as well as Michael’s potential victims. Larson scrutinizes this identification, meditating on horror […]
posted Saturday, June 1, 2024
Toronto’s inaugural Gay Pride March took place in 1974 when a hundred people gathered to march from Allan Gardens to Queen’s Park, calling on lawmakers to include sexual orientation in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The march helped lay the groundwork for what has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world. […]
posted Thursday, May 30, 2024
You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and […]
posted Tuesday, May 28, 2024
“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no […]
