

Mark Harris
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How Did Lesbian Pulp Fiction Thrive in the 1950s and ’60s?
These lurid paperbacks offer today’s readers a portal to an early, furtive era of queer expression.

How Did New York Become the Freakiest Place on Earth?
The city has always been a haven for iconoclasts, but contemporary talents in virtually every field are making the metropolis more unique than ever before.

Paul P.’s Spectral Paintings of Queer Life
The artist Paul P. is a painter whose power comes from representing a scarcely documented, in-between generation of queer life.

Who Gets to Be a Daddy?
The best compliment a man — gay or straight, old or … not so old — can receive is to enter the pantheon of daddies.

Gay Men Have Long Been Obsessed With Their Muscles. Now Everyone Is.
In Hollywood, on Instagram and beyond, the male-on-male gaze still decides what’s hot and what’s not.

Yes, These Gays Are Trying to Murder You
Queer villains are all over our screens these days. What do they have to say?

Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime?
Even as gender and masculinity are more fluid than ever, it can still rankle when male stars co-opt traditionally gay codes and styles.

Imagining a Monument to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths
In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to...