Queer
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Arts
Where Are All the Cool Gays Hanging Out?
In “Long Live Queer Nightlife,” the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.
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Magazine
The False Note in Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’
The film celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s musical duality, but fails to seriously engage with his bisexuality.
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World
Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do
In 2006, the year Taylor Swift released her first single, a closeted country singer named Chely Wright, then 35, held a 9-millimeter pistol to her mouth. Queer identity was still taboo enough in mainstream America that speaking about her love for ...
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Magazine
I’ve Never Watched Anything as Transformative as ‘Sailor Moon’
The show is about friendship, yes, and also liberation that does not match the world’s expectations of femininity.
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Magazine
Out West, the Gay Cowboy Roams Free
The frontier has long been a symbol of American masculinity. Now a rising generation of artists are creating a new queer mythology.
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Arts
‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Is a TV Rarity With Familiar Drama
Netflix’s latest dating reality show hit, which wrapped up on Wednesday, broke ground by focusing exclusively on queer and nonbinary couples.
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Business
The Lesbian Bar Isn’t Dead. It’s Pouring Orange Wine in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of the Ruby Fruit. What could be better on a rainy weeknight than chatting with friends and ...
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Arts
What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything.
In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.
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