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On Zionism, Sexual Coercion, and Biologically Essential Judaism

On Zionism, Sexual Coercion, and Biologically Essential Judaism

White American Jews have come to use the racial tools once used against us as a point of pride and as an indicator of belonging that relies on an instrumentalization of children’s sexuality. Blood libel becomes blood purity.

a they's own story: a Club Pittsburgh report

a they's own story: a Club Pittsburgh report

But I’m not scared of my body, or my desire, or anyone’s desire about me. Sometimes ambivalent, sometimes not interested, but really never scared.

Rub 'n Shrug: on Dante "Tex" Gill

Rub 'n Shrug: on Dante "Tex" Gill

Transness is queer, queer people are straight, men are women, whatever.

"gone for good, with no goodbye kiss": whatever happened to Donny's Place?

"gone for good, with no goodbye kiss": whatever happened to Donny's Place?

This gives–burdens? blesses?–me with another void to write around, another absence at the core of my desire, when all of my desire orbits around history–which is part of what I understand Leather to be.

adventures in yiddishland

adventures in yiddishland

Perhaps I was trying to cruise Yiddish itself.

gay panic! and the disco

gay panic! and the disco

“I can’t help its [the novel’s] being gay. I have been a full-time fag for the past five years, I realized the other day. Everyone I know is gay, everything I do is gay, all my fantasies are gay [...] I am a doomed queen." Andrew Holleran, Dancer

We Care About YOU! harm reduction history at the leather bar

We Care About YOU! harm reduction history at the leather bar

History, of course, follows us to the doctor, and the best medical care is sometimes found at the bar.

a sinkhole without a gloryhole is all trash and no pleasure

a sinkhole without a gloryhole is all trash and no pleasure

I love the special transgression of romance in a place committed to anonymity and filth.

pittsburgh sucks and i love it

pittsburgh sucks and i love it

The other week I published a brief profile of Real Luck Café, a gay bar commonly known as Lucky’s, in the Pride issue of the Pittsburgh City Paper. Lucky’s is the rare gay bar that’s also a real Rust Belt dive; it has a sticky floor, it