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Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary
For 12 hours, onlookers watched marching bands, politicians, big banks, religious groups, tourism agencies, skincare brands, candy conglomerates, queer motorcycle clubs, healthcare companies, civil rights groups and every other type of organization walk the city…
Authors and Activism: LGBT Bookstores
“You weren’t there for the economics, and it would be exhausting if you were in it for the politics. We were starved.”
Press A, Be Gay: LGBT Video Game Characters
“Most of the queer characters in mainstream games of the 1990s fit into two categories: stereotypical or discreet.”
The Penguins of Highgate Cemetery
“I noticed the extra space awaiting the S at the end of PARTNER. I noticed the penguins, who mate for life and who are occasionally used as a symbol of the gay community…”
The Last Time I Raced Against Michael Phelps
“I wasn’t sitting with the most decorated Olympian ever; he hadn’t broken any world records yet. I was sitting with a Maryland teammate, a fellow competitor, and, simply, a good kid.”
Some Notes On Judy Garland
“There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.”
– Judy Garland, January 1960
We’re All Coming Too Fast
“If it’s safe to assume that Netflix killed the video store and Napster sounded the death knell for record shops, then it’s not a stretch to say that X-Tube killed gay booksellers by decentralizing lust.”
Lessons Learned: Revisiting “Coda”
“Stories have a way of percolating in people. They land, they ripple outward, they settle. Over time they become a part of us through their telling and retelling, a new limb through which we feel the world.”
Willyce Kim Wrote Her Own Story
“When I came out in the 1970s I came into a community of all white women. She was the first Asian-American lesbian that I saw in the flesh, so she really was a great role model for me because I thought I was the only one.”"
Alexander Chee: From ACT UP to Acclaim
“The sort of basic split that I recall is that the AIDS crisis had radicalized a lot of white gay men who had not been particularly political before then, had not ever aligned themselves with anything other than white male privilege, which is not a community, and also not really an identity; it’s just a kind of status quo.”
I Went To Reading Gaol
“Along with the 43-year-old Oscar Wilde, the prisoners of Reading Gaol ranged from ten-year-olds to seventy-year-olds.”