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Gays

Stonewall at Fifty

by Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Queer Theory

From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The document was published in March by Muckrock.

The Number That No Man Could Number

by Anthony Heilbut,

Black America’s civil war over gay rights

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

Disco Inferno

by Douglas Crimp,

From notes taken in the 1970s by Douglas Crimp, an art critic. The notes appear in Before Pictures, a memoir that was published last month by the University of Chicago Press…

We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive

by James Harkin,

A gay soldier in Assad’s army

In the Republic

by Anonymous,

Photographs from Iran

Darling

by Richard Rodriguez,

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

Same-as-that

by Dale Peck,

From a speech given in December 2011, at the New School, in New York City. Dale Peck is a novelist and critic. The first time I heard the word samizdat…

The military and gays

by Harper’s Staff,

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