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'Boy Erased' Is an Easy-to-Swallow Capsule of Sexual Repression
Director Joel Edgerton's well-intentioned drama about gay conversion therapy fails to deliver any new insight or even a good cry.
09 Nov 2018
Books
When Sexually Frustrated Angry White Men (Mis)Read the Classics
Donna Zuckerberg's Not All Dead White Men is a powerful study of the ways the alt-right distorts the understanding of ancient Greek and Roman literature to serve hateful interests today.
09 Nov 2018
Film
All the Right Intentions Can’t Bring 'Boy Erased' to Life
The tragedy of conversion therapy is confronted in Boy Erased, a well-meaning but perfectly conventional message movie.
08 Nov 2018
Film
Gay Conversion Therapy Onscreen: Joel Edgerton On 'Boy Erased'
Actor-director Joel Edgerton details the sensitive process of making Boy Erased and how the film could act as a lifeline for families who have experienced gay conversion therapy.
01 Nov 2018
Television
Hannah Gadsby's 'Nanette' Makes Us Realize the Present Tense
Hannah Gadsby's acclaimed Netflix special is a cultural milestone not only because it demands a better future, but because it teaches us about the present moment and where we might go next.
27 Jul 2018
Books
Historian Martin Duberman Puts Us to Task with 'Has the Gay Movement Failed?'
Has the "gay movement" failed? Not yet, suggests this historian's survey. But it urgently needs to reinvent itself.
14 May 2018
Books
Camp, Satire, and Serious Artistry in Carnival Krewsing
Gay carnival culture in New Orleans offers an interesting parallel to African American culture. This and other observations are offered in Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans.
09 Apr 2018
Books
The Price He Was Willing to Pay: 'Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years'
By picking up his subject after the most infamous event in Wilde's life, Frankel is able to rebuild the narrative of Wilde's post-prison life from the detritus of his public undoing.
10 Nov 2017
Culture
United by Default: The Very Diverse Counter-Protesters to the Westboro Haters
WBC’s warped logic that dead soldiers are divine retribution for America’s tolerance of homosexuality aligns bikers, LGBT people and many others in unexpected ways.
A. Loudermilk
25 Mar 2013
Culture
'How to Survive a Plague': Critical Lessons for a New Era
How to Survive a Plague portrays an important era in LGBT history, a time when the gay community banded together in a way that politics or prejudice could never have fostered.
11 Mar 2013
Television
Homophobia Is Alive and Well on TV at the WWE
With the WWE's biggest event of the year on the horizon, fans and sponsors might want to take a closer look at its blatant homophobia and reconsider the wisdom of handing over their money to a bigoted and retrograde institution.
30 Mar 2011
Television
Starfleet Unitards for Women
Trekkie compilations and more cocoa in Starfleet to confront viewers with the show's embedded sexism.
21 May 2010
Television
All the Girls Were in 'The Closet' with Ellen DeGeneres
The true story about Ellen's fourth season, which includes the famous coming out 'The Puppy Episode (Parts 1 and 2)' is that it's really not about gay people at all: it's really about straight society USA, circa 1997.
Zarker
09 Oct 2006
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