The Eighties

August 1982 Perry Deane Young

The Gay Men of the New Right

The D.C. power brokers behind Christian social conservatism in the Reagan era were living double lives as closeted homosexuals.
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May 1982 Michel FoucaultGilles Barbedette

Michel Foucault on Gay Culture

Gilles Barbedette interviews the French philosopher Michel Foucault about the possibilities of gay culture as a new form of relational life.
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August 1987 Andrew Holleran

Notes on Promiscuity

As King Lear said, “Let copulation thrive; the gilded fly doth lecher in my sight.” As Anthony said of Cleopatra, “She makes hungry where most she satisfies.”
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July 1987 Andrew Holleran

Tragic Drag

Remembering Charles Ludlam (1943-1987).
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April 1984 Andrew Holleran

My Last Trick

The only time you give something up is the time you are so indifferent to it you don’t even make the vow or use the word "never."
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December 1982 Andrew Holleran

Dancing: The Past Five Years

Andrew Holleran reminisces on the disco haunts of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Tenth Floor, Flamingo, the Saint, and the Ice Palace.
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July-August 1980 George Stambolian

This Time Around I Belong to Him

George Stambolian interviews a gay masochist about pain, pleasure, trauma, and race.
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