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An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of “recording something of note” about the gay experience.
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The Enduring Power of Peter Hujar’s “Portraits in Life and Death”

Since the photographer’s death, in 1987, the only book he published in his lifetime has attained the status of a classic.
This Week in Fiction

Bryan Washington on the Possibilities of Queerness

The author discusses his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis.”
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Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love

“About Ed” is a literary monument that harnesses memoir’s emotional honesty while indulging fiction’s stylistic latitude.
This Week in Fiction

Caleb Crain on Stealing from Life

The author discusses “Keats at Twenty-four,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
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Friendship and Gender Rebellion in Nineties San Francisco

For the queer community pictured in Chloe Sherman’s new photo book, “Renegades,” self-presentation is a kind of sacred tongue.
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Reimagining Underground Rave Culture

A new book by the media theorist McKenzie Wark may be the most extensive depiction of the renegade party scene that has recently exploded in Brooklyn.
Annals of Education

What Should a Queer Children’s Book Do?

How a vital, burgeoning genre of kid lit is being threatened across the country.
Screening Room

Romance and Apocalypse in “Escaping the Fragile Planet”

Boy meets boy at the end of the world, in Thanasis Tsimpinis’s short film.
Shouts & Murmurs

Pride Celebrations for the Quietly Contemplative

Taking notes on RuPaul’s MasterClass as if there will be a quiz.
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Love on the Run in Stephen Barker’s Photographs

A world of bodies at Club 82.
The Front Row

“Word Is Out”: A Pioneering Documentary of Gay Voices

The 1977 movie, now available to stream, is a work of mighty complexity built from the simple premise of people talking about their lives.
Our Columnists

Could the Supreme Court’s Landmark L.G.B.T.-Rights Decision Help Lead to the Dismantling of Affirmative Action?

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s textualist decision protecting gay and transgender individuals from discrimination may have laid the groundwork for a conservative case against race-conscious school-admissions policies.
Video Dept.

Bryan Washington Makes Bread Pudding

“There’s something to be said about the role of queer bakers,” Bryan Washington writes. “We often end up providing comfort to those who may not have given it to us.”
Our Columnists

The Queer Opposition to Pete Buttigieg, Explained

What makes Buttigieg a reassuring choice for some older, white, straight people, and a disturbing possibility for some queer people? It is that he is profoundly, essentially conservative.
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Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness

His journals, kept for three decades until his death, in 1991, are a record of personal awakening and a document of cultural transformation.
Our Columnists

Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall

The world is not what I imagined: I thought we would have retired the concept of sexual orientation and made a bigger dent in gender. Still, it’s better than the one I came out in—for now.
Our Columnists

How L.G.B.T. Couples in Russia Decide Whether to Leave the Country

Even if the choice seemed inevitable to me, most of my queer friends have stayed.
Podcast Dept.

“Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime

The podcast is as much a gesture toward healing as it is a work of investigation. What’s being uncovered isn’t a culprit but a history.
Our Columnists

The Dread of Waiting for the Supreme Court to Rule on L.G.B.T. Rights

After securing the right to marry, many L.G.B.T. people have feared an inevitable backlash, and noted that we have little to protect ourselves against it.