Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, written by Prof Simon Goldhill, recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for...
Michel Foucault’s Legendary “Le Gai Savoir”, “Le Gai Pied”, and the Birth of Radical Queer Discourse
By Sasha Brandt On 10 July 1978, Michel Foucault sat down for an interview with Jean Le Bitoux, a conversation...
By Sasha Brandt From clubs and pubs to aristocratic follies, from an Indian theatre to a Cuban ice-cream parlor, this creative book is a hymn to the gay-friendly buildings treasured by filmmakers, artists, and activists. Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the great lost wonders of British architecture. A...
By Răzvan Ion I deliberately used Susan Sontag’s title, On Photography, intending to quote her. ‘To photograph people is to violate...
By Răzvan Ion Refusing to compile a ‘best of’ list—there is no ‘best of’ in literature, only literature and the...
By Josia Jourdan Vincent Wechselberger has been working as a part-time sex worker since he came to Berlin. He has now published a book with pictures of his colleagues’ everyday lives. Here he talks about his experiences. Vincent Wechselberger stands outside a trendy café in Berlin-Friedrichshain, wearing a reddish-brown leather...
By Ione Gildroy Following Donald Trump’s election as President of the USA, inclusive and radical spaces are feeling all the...
by Tristin Hopper Ironically, all these cross-dressing soldiers were fighting for a regime that sent queer people and cross dressers...
By Miruna Tiberiu & Răzvan Ion Superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theatre scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), and at the famed...
By Dominik Böhler Queer Quarter was established as a space for queer individuals to be represented, to feel safe and...
