... part of the year in New York, I am also familiar with MIX-NY. I am not sure there should be a role for academic critics/scholars like me in relation to community festivals. I see myself more as an interpreter-observer than a programmer, even though I have...

...Eric Rofes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany New York: New York University Press, 1999. xviii + 203 pp. $19.95 Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.1-04 Rofes 1/11/01 11:55 AM Page 101 Book Review IMPERIAL NEW YORK...

... moment is “out of joint” for the two generations separated by the interval between epidemic and endemic time is the motivation for asking a series of ethical, historical, and political questions about HIV/AIDS and queer theory through the lens of Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx and the New York City...

...madison moore Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980 – 1983 Lawrence Tim Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . xxi + 578 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... The essays gathered here were presented at “Queer Publicity,” a panel organized in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (the New Festival) in May 1998. The panel was held at New York University under the auspices of the Queer Faculty Group conference...

...Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot; Kitty Rotolo Abstract This autoethnographic piece, cowritten through letters exchanged between Kitty Rotolo, currently incarcerated in New York State, and Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, an abolitionist organizer and graduate student in New York City, explores elaborations of trans...

... performer “superstar” Mario Montez, who were members of New York's artistic underground, to such an expansion. While Puerto Rican and Latino migrants to the city were associated in the works of underground artists with a seamlessly unfractured culture of fervor and belief that often made their cultural...

... and transcribed interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. Schulman's discussion of her project reveals the patchwork of individual identities, political priorities, and talents that contributed to the significant successes of ACT UP as an agent of social change while also...

...Carlos Ulises Decena Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or “coming out,” blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York...

...Christina B. Hanhardt Abstract At the start of the 1990s the New York chapter of the activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was essential to the continuation of needle exchanges, which provide clean syringes to injection drug users without disapprobation or discipline and have been...

...Julie Tolentino; Vivian A. Crockett; Tara Hart; Amira Khusro; Leeroy Kun Young Kang; Dragon Mansion Abstract Founded in New York City in 1990, the Clit Club was a nightclub and performance venue that offered a sex-positive, racially, economically, and culturally-mixed queer space of encounter...

... photographers, including Baron de Meyer, Cecil Beaton, George Hoyningen-Huene, and Horst P. Horst, who defined a queer aesthetics of fashion photography in New York, Paris, London, and Hollywood in the years before World War II. I historicize what Lynes called the “amorous regard” of his fashion photography...

... diverse transnational Jewish communities and reflecting varying engagements with the emergent science of sex. This article focuses on the work of one doctor, Leonard Landis, working at the turn of the twentieth century in New York, who was by far the most prolific (and controversial) author of Yiddish...

...Tahereh Aghdasifar Gelare Khoshgozaran, a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist, gave her initial performance of “UNdocumentary” as part of the welcome to what we took from is the state exhibition at Queens Museum in New York City. This performance entailed a reading, by the artist...

... the “window poems” of queer New York School poet James Schuyler. In these poems, Schuyler documents small and large forms of urban transformation from his Manhattan apartment during the 1950s and 1960s. Schuyler’s poems, Knittle argues, model strategies for how to identify the obsolescence of normative space...

...Christina A. León Abstract This article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagnosis with HIV, and persists and morphs through his later...

...Nicholas Boggs James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination . Brim Matt . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2014 . 214 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Elam Michele , ed. 2015 . The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin . New York...