Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla’s One Degree of Separation
Influential poet/occultist Aleister Crowley and inventor Nikola Tesla traveled in similar circles but never met. What might have happened if they had?
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Ronald Brownstein Celebrates and Elegizes LA’s ’70s-Era Cultural Dominance
Ronald Brownstein’s ode to ’70s Los Angeles is, like so many California stories, less about a sustained moment than a bright and briefly thrilling mirage.
Celebrity Stylist Andrew Gelwicks Has a Queer Advantage
Andrew Gelwicks interviews celebrities and other “beautiful people” who have come out of the closet and benefited from it.
The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the 1980s: 80 – 61
Just imagine songs this extreme making the American Top 40, let alone the Top 10… unthinkable.
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The 100 Best Alternative Singles of the 1980s: 100 – 81
Beginning today and continuing all week, we present one critic’s best punk, post-punk, new wave, college rock, underground, modern rock, goth, industrial, new romantic, ska, power pop, hardcore, and indie rock of the ’80s.
Writing in the Margins: Prize-Winning French Novelist Alice Zeniter on the Legacies of French Colonialism
Alice Zeniter’s excellent novel, The Art of Losing, tells the story of an Algerian Harkis family and the reaching effects of French Colonialism.
Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes” and Our Queer Satan
Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes” takes on the Devil and righteously subverts anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
The Latest Anthology on RuPaul’s Drag Race Is Gag-Worthy
The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race turns a fierce lewk without overriding any of the iconic moments served by its predecessors.
The Martian Chronicles: A Tale of Two Apocalypses
Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles calls out from the past to our time of pandemic and NASA’s Mars Space Rover: however far our reach may be there is no escape for humankind from humankind.
‘Louder Than Bombs’ Argues That Wherever Music Exists, War Exists
Music, correspondent Ed Vulliamy argues in his memoir, ‘Louder Than Bombs’, evokes the same emotions as war.
The Amorphous and Complex Global ‘Pink Line’
Mark Gevisser's excellent study of the global weaponization of homo- and transphobia, The Pink Line, provides a superb survey of the promise – and peril – of queer identity.