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Flesh & Fluid: A Love Story

Brian Alessandro — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:02:54 +0000

By Brian Alessandro
Jane Schoenbrun’s affinity for B-movies is evident; they recently described Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma as “Friday the 13th meets Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”

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Bryan Safi: Wearing Both Sides of the Shirt

Brendan McCall — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:05:52 +0000

By Brendan McCall
People-pleasing, in all its guises, is the primary theme anchoring the episodic riffs in Bryan Safi’s often-hilarious seventy-minute one-person show Are You Mad at Me??

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James Baldwin Biographer Nicholas Boggs

CHARLES GREEN — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:54:29 +0000

Interview by Charles Green
“I would spend weeks, even months, simply storyboarding and doing timelines, trying to figure out where he was at a given moment. That was the only good thing about the FBI files.”

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Coming Out at 36

Andy Barrow — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:11:18 +0000

By Andy Barrow
Did I always know? There were plenty of signs. When I was three, I draped myself in blankets and declared myself Cinderella. My first CD was Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection.

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Heartstopper, Alice Oseman, and Asexuality

J. Barnes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:25:46 +0000

By J. Barnes
One of the most groundbreaking aspects of Heartstopper is its inclusion of Tori Spring, an asexual woman, in a time when asexuality remains almost entirely unrepresented in mass media.

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Documenting a Real-Life Heated Rivalry

Brian Bromberger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:54:31 +0000

By Brian Bromberger
For Heated Rivalry fans going into withdrawal waiting for season two of the same-sex romance, there’s a cinematic methadone fix in the form of a new documentary, The Hockey Player.

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There Was Something About Mary

Matthew Hays — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:40:20 +0000

By Matthew Hays
Louise Lasser had roles in several early Woody Allen films (they were briefly married) and later appeared in Lena Dunham’s “Girls” but was best known for starring in a landmark cult TV show.

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The Scarlet Tongue

Nessuno — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:44:53 +0000

By Nessuno
At age eleven, puberty hit this naïve, second-generation Italian-American boy, bringing a sudden awareness, along with the spontaneous erections that plagued my school days.

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The Stretch of Tom of Finland’s Influence

Ignacio Darnaude — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:57:19 +0000

By Ignacio Darnaude
Long before body politics, sexual agency, and queer visibility entered mainstream discourse, Tom of Finland realized gay men didn’t have positive role models.

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Finding Following Orlando

Kyle Gerry — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:53:08 +0000

By Kyle Gerry
Falling in love is straightforward at first. My first loves, like Orlando’s in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous “biography” of her female lover Vita Sackville-West, were intoxicating.

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