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- History for the Children: Huey P. Newton
A Speech given by Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, August 15, 1970: During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements. Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various [...]
- A Thanksgiving Prayer
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- Madonna’s Letter to Steven Meisel
The website “Letters of Note” has unearthed a letter Madonna wrote in 1991 to famed photographer Steven Meisel while she was filming the movie “A League of Their Own.” The letter is classic 90s Madonna, snarky( Genna Davis is a barbie doll) and cruelly hilarious (when God decided where the beautiful men were going to [...]
- James Franco Reads Howl
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- William Burroughs vs Led Zeppelin
What would happen if William Burroughs and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page sat down for a cup of tea? Would the Devil pop out of the teapot? Would the crumpets rise up and start singing the “Misty Mountain Hop“? The good folks at Arthur Magazine have unearthed a 1975 Crawdaddy article in which Burroughs attends a [...]
- Oscar Wilde: All Art is Useless
“Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the now famous and often misconstrued line, ‘All art is quite useless’. In fact, following the novel’s original publication in 1890, Oxford undergraduate Bernulf Clegg was so intrigued by the claim that he wrote to Wilde and asked him to elaborate.” The [...]
- House Music
A history of urban gay culture can be mapped by simply taking note of what was being played at the dance clubs at any given moment. Below is a link to a website that offers a vivid, insightful, evocative and personal accounting of the house music scene, and the gay culture that both inspired it [...]
- Saturday Night at the Baths
A legendary B-movie from the 1970s, “Saturday Night at the Baths” was one of the first American films to tackle openly gay issues. The plot surrounds Michael, a freshly minted New Yorker and musician, “and his struggle to discover how and where he fits in society. “ Michael, in an effort to boast his career, [...]
- Self-Epitaph by Reinaldo Arenas
Self -Epitaph A bad poet in love with the moon, he counted terror as his only fortune : and it was enough because, being no saint, he knew that life is risk or abstinence, that every great ambition is great insanity and the most sordid horror has its charm. He lived for life’s sake, which [...]
- Perfect Lovers
Felix Gonzalez-Torres. (American, born Cuba. 1957-1996). Untitled (Perfect Lovers). 1991. Clocks, paint on wall. overall 14 x 28 x 2 3/4″ (35.6 x 71.2 x 7 cm). Two clocks side by side are much more threatening to the powers that be than an image of two guys sucking each other’s dicks, because they cannot use [...]
