When Nobody’s Chasing You: The Romantic Comedy That Got Real
The first time I saw My Best Friend’s Wedding I was dismayed. At eight or nine, I had discovered the 1997 film among my maternal grandparents’ small, seemingly random VHS collection and then settled...
View ArticleArchie Comics, Really Big Coloring Books, and Other LGBT News
In September of 2010, Dan Parent of Archie Comics added Kevin Keller to the mix, making him the first gay character in the history of Archie Comics. And in February of 2012, Kevin Keller got a series...
View ArticleLarry Kramer, Tom of Finland, James Baldwin, and Other LGBT News
This week in the LGBT-themed arts: This Sunday, May 25th, marks the television premiere of the HBO film The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (the creator of Glee) and written for the screen by...
View ArticleThe Walt Whitman Award, Essex Hemphill, ‘Fun Home’ on Broadway, and More LGBT...
This week in the LGBT-themed arts: A $5,000 award, a first-publication deal with Graywolf Press and a residency in Umbria, Italy now make the Academy of American Poets‘ Walt Whitman Award for poetry...
View ArticleLarry Kramer on His New Novel, Gary Indiana on His Photography Exhibition,...
This week in the LGBTQ-themed arts: The Advocate holds an extended interview with Larry Kramer about gay history and the process that went into writing his new epic, The American People: Volume One....
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Read an Excerpt from Larry Kramer’s ‘American People: Volume I’
This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is releasing the long-awaited new novel from author and activist Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel. The American People is...
View ArticleOn Plague and the Queer Art of Absurdist History: Larry Kramer’s ‘The...
Larry Kramer’s new behemoth of a novel, The American People, opens in the primordial Everglades. “Look at a map,” Kramer writes. “Florida is America’s penis and the Everglades is its rectum and the...
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Chelsea Manning on Trans Lit, #ReadNaked, and Other LGBT News
In other LGBT news… The openly gay Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his book A Brief History of Seven Killings, becoming the first Jamaican to claim the prestigious award. Congratulations...
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Ten of This Year’s Standout LGBTQ Books
There were a cavalcade of spectacular lgbtq titles published this year; it was truly a year of queer literary excellence. This year’s stand-out books ranged from the starkly visceral to the ornately...
View ArticleLarry Kramer: On the Importance of Making Noise and Being Heard
“Gays have been here since the beginning of America, and we’ve been treated like shit since the beginning of America,” says writer and activist, Larry Kramer, explaining why we lack a sense of our own...
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