Category: Fiction & Essays
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Silence, Breaking (VAN)
On knowing and deciding not to know about James Levine, and how a cult of interpretive genius enabled abuse. Dieser Aufsatz wurde auch in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht.
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Beckmesser’s Dream (VAN)
An essay about Barrie Kosky’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Bayreuth Festival for this terrifyingly intelligent magazine about classical music. Read it here.
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Review | The Pox Lover (Lambda Literary)
The bloodied emotional battlefields of AIDS activism, national and familial histories of fascist collaboration, the storms of a personal life torn between continents, the rising threat of neofascism, and the universal pyroclastic flows of desire and disease: these are the urgent themes of Anne-christine d’Adesky’s new “activist diary-cum-battlefield-notes-cum-travelogue,” The Pox Lover, a memoir of her…
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Queer Traces (Pelican Bomb)
I talked with Verena Spilker about a Berlin-based project that raises questions about how to create more inclusive archives and how communities can form through art.
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Geography (Potluck Magazine)
The summer thunderstorm rolled over Manhattan like an invading army. It had been sunny all day, the air thick with smog and heat. Then the high hammerhead clouds rose like tanks on the horizon, the wind picked up, fat drops of rain fell like bullets. I watched from my office window as the clouds calmed…
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Remembering Harry Hay (Jacobin)
Harry Hay would have been 115 this month. His life and work as a gay man and a Communist helped lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ movement. The kind folks at Jacobin let me rant about my favorite subject.
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In the Archives | Friedrich Radszuweit and the False Security of Collaboration (OUTHistory)
Accommodation and collaboration are moral and political failures, even on their own terms. There is no sure path to safety except to win the fight for the kind of world we want. On the blog at OUTHistory today discussing gay fascists and collaborationists, past and present.
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Review | The War On Sex (Lambda Literary)
We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex, a new collection of essays from Duke University Press edited by David Halperin and Trevor Hoppe. Reviewed this excellent collection of essays…
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Gay Loneliness Is Real—but “Bitchy, Toxic” Culture Isn’t the Full Story (Slate)
For Slate’s Outward vertical, a response to Michael Hobbes’ “The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness:” We cannot think about how we might be better to each other without thinking about who we are, and who we have been, and who we might become. The various epidemics of queer loneliness and drug addiction and suicide will not…
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Timely Tribute: The Rise and Fall of Opera’s Voices (Pelican Bomb)
Thoughts on what an opera singer must give up in order to achieve divadom. An anecdote from Wayne Koestenbaum at soprano Anna Moffo’s wake: “I signed the ‘Relatives and Friends’ book, but didn’t write down my address. I feared that her stepchild or cousin would send me a chiding letter: ‘You had no business attending…