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Sex Across Borders

How the sexuality of Mexican gay immigrants influences their paths of migration to the United States, their sexual health, and their HIV risk

What is the queerest space of all? I say it’s the space of subjectivity. What’s our inner world like? How do we describe our own interiority? What do we mean when we try to speak about what goes on inside our minds, inside our souls, inside ourselves? Where is that queer “inside” located, exactly? How is it laid

The Key to Enlightenment

At six-foot-five, two hundred and twenty odd pounds, ex-marine Jeff Key could easily palm my face like a basketball but shakes my hand instead. He is dressed in rumpled jeans and a purposefully disheveled T-shirt, and I notice he’s handsome. He seems to take pity on my five foot two (read: one) frame and suggests we sit down as we begin

Queer Connections Before Craigslist

In 1946 Bois Burke, a resident of Berkeley, California, placed a personal advertisement in a new magazine called The Hobby Directory. He identified himself as a forty-one-year-old, college educated office clerk who was interested in internationalism, politics, and chess and who was looking to correspond with other “single members

Straight to Jesus

On a New Years Eve a few years ago, men between the ages of twenty and forty-five arrived from all over the country to begin a residential program at an ex-gay ministry in San Rafael, California called New Hope. Though the men were strangers, they spent the holiday cooking and praying together. In the past, these same men might have celebrated

The Realities of Unprotected Sex: Barebacking in a post-HAART HIV culture

Like many gay men, I have had bareback sex. As a twenty-two-year-old gay man who came of age in a time when HIV was not the mystery it was when I came into this world, you might think my behavior inexcusable. Yes, I knew the stakes going into it. Yes, I had explored safe sex websites and taught myself the ins and outs of transmission risks.

Before There was AIDS: Looking at Gay Sex in the 70s

Watching Joseph Lovett's Gay Sex in the 70's is like glimpsing into a nostalgic photo album filled with memories of a world buried in the past. This documentary chronicles gay culture in New York's Upper West Side between the summer of 1969 and the summer of 1982, the time period beginning with Stonewall and ending with onset of the AIDS

Female Attraction: Q&A with Daniel Harris, author of Diary of a Drag Queen

Harris’s new book Diary of a Drag Queen is a humorous account of his experiences as a man, as a woman, and as an aging intellectual sidelined from the youth-obsessed gay world.

The Realities of Unprotected Sex: Barebacking in a post-HAART HIV culture Sneek Preview

Like many gay men, I have had bareback sex. As a 22-year-old gay man who came of age in a time when HIV was not the mystery it was when I came into this world, you might think my behavior inexcusable. Yes, I knew the stakes going into it. Yes, I had explored safe sex websites and taught myself the ins and outs of transmission risks. I even took

Insurance Plan for the Gay Man: Who benefits from media stereotypes?

The popularity of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy seems to be a testament to the growing acceptance of LGBT people in the media and in daily life. But below this surface, trouble lurks.

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