Category: Fiction & Essays
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A Queer Ear: Paul Bowles’ “Music of Morocco” (Pelican Bomb)
How Paul Bowles’ recordings of traditional Moroccan music might have served an agenda of resistance. Three Americans—a woman, her husband, and his friend—sit in a café in Morocco a few years after the end of World War II. The woman, bored, muses on their travels, “The people of each country get more like the people…
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“Regrets” (The Open Bar at Tin House)
A story I wrote appeared in Tin House, or at least on their blog. Click through the quote to read: Twice, I have given fake phone numbers to men I met in bars. The first must have been fifty. He bought me a drink; and, offended by how little I talked to him, took it back half-drunk.…
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Review of Emmanuel Levy’s “Gay Directors, Gay Films?” (Lambda Literary)
A mostly-salty review of a book with potential that fudged the execution: undertheorized and exclusionary. Click through the quote to read: The notion that there is a distinctly gay gaze and sensibility in the work of openly gay directors “has not been thoroughly explored in the fields of cinema.” This book—which focuses on the careers…
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Review of Michelangelo Signorile’s “It’s Not Over” (Lambda Literary)
My review of Michelangelo Signorile’s It’s Not Over was published today in Lambda Literary, the amazing LGBT book review. Click through the quote to read: In the seminal Queer in America, written in 1990, Signorile laid at least part of the blame for quietude in the face of the devastation of AIDS at the feet…
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Efrain Gonzalez Chronicled NYC’s Seedy, Glorious West Side Nightlife (Gothamist)
New York City photographer Efrain John Gonzalez says he’s “not a professional photographer, just OCD.” He describes his work as telling “a story of people finding the path to their souls, finding their bliss with piercings, branding, cuttings, tattoos, latex, implants, leather, and a whole lot of radical sex and sexuality.” Throughout the 1970s, 1980s,…