As its title suggests, “Pink Narcissus” is something of a hothouse flower. A feature-length movie, shot over a period of seven years on eight-millimeter film and...
When we called my parents to tell them we were engaged, my father said to my mother, “Is she pregnant?” I was 41, so this was...
Sinew and Silence After my son died, I forgot how to be human. Breathing felt like betrayal. Food, impossible. The floor was the only place that...
Were it not for the fact that it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and were it not for the blaring house music, one might...
When Amber Glenn was named the top U.S. women’s figure skater for a second consecutive year in January, she collapsed in tears, releasing mountains of pressure...
Carnal urges drive the characters in the films of the French director Alain Guiraudie toward absurd and sometimes dangerous mishaps. In his sexually audacious narratives, which...
Felice Picano, who in the 1970s and ’80s helped usher in a golden age of gay literature as the author of groundbreaking novels and memoirs and...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow One of the first things Jay told me was, “I love your hair.” It was 1995, and it was inky black from...
I am 20 years old and came out to my mother recently. I told her now only because I have started seeing a woman, and I...
RIGHT-WING WOMEN, by Andrea Dworkin A tech mogul extols the virtues of “masculine energy”; a United States senator writes a book called “Manhood”; a president found...
