L.G.B.T.
Photo Booth
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.
By Chris Wiley
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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.
By Benjamin Moser
This Week in Fiction
Bryan Washington on the Possibilities of Queerness
The author discusses his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis.”
By Willing Davidson
Page-Turner
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.
By Daniel Felsenthal
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.
By Willing Davidson
Photo Booth
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.
By Crispin Long
Page-Turner
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.
By Emily Witt
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.
By Jessica Winter
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.
By Zach Zimmerman
Photo Booth
Love on the Run in Stephen Barker’s Photographs
A world of bodies at Club 82.
By Hilton Als
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.
By Richard Brody
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.
By Jeannie Suk Gersen
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.”
By The New Yorker
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.
By Masha Gessen
Page-Turner
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.
By Jeremy Lybarger
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.
By Masha Gessen
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.
By Masha Gessen
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.
By Sarah Larson
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.
By Masha Gessen