Gay·F·fect Newsletter
Reviews & Features
- The ancient Olympics: A slide show of athletic art from antiquity to the 20th century
- Nationalism and homophobia: Are we the new enemy?
- Di Canzio’s Alec retells Forster’s classic gay novel Maurice from the gamekeeper’s point of view
- Two new photography shows highlight how “white” America’s gay history is
- Friends or lovers? Antique photographs of men together make us wonder
- A new edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets reiterates that the bard was likely bisexual
- The Boys in the Band (2020) is an excellent remake, more polished if not as taut as the original (1970)
- A new edition of Tom of Finland: The Official Life includes many NSFW and color images omitted from the 1993 original
- Michelanelo’s love sonnets to Tommaso dei Cavalieri
- The male nude in western art: Seventeen works by the greatest masters of the last 2,600 years
- Drag: The Complete Story offers a lavish celebration of drag from the ancients to RuPaul
- Boston's Apollo tells the stories of John Singer Sargent and the man who modeled for some of his best-known works
- One man’s crusade for gay rights: The life and tireless work of Frank Kameny
- Christopher Isherwood's memoir of gay life in pre-WWII Berlin inspired Cabaret
- A poet’s debut provokes—and mystifies
- The Song of Achilles retells the age-old love story of Achilles and Patroclus
- In How We Fight for Our Lives, a bookish gay boy finds himself
- Alexis Hall treats us to the hilarious, diverting tale of a gay English wastrel in love
Gay Resources
Notable Books
Biography & Memoir
- Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis sets the standard
- Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith bring's the poet's many personas alive
- John Waters shares his wisdom in Mr. Know-It-All
- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise rehashes Randolph Scott “friendship”
- James Beard’s life retold in The Man Who Ate Too Much
- William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll
- Was artist Dennis Cooper a Genet or more of a Rimbaud?
Fiction
- The Magician by Colm Tóibín dramatizes the life of Thomas Mann
- MENAFTER10 tells the story of a group of young, Black gay men in the city
- Alex retells Maurice from the gamekeeper’s point of view
- Maurice by E.M. Forster is one of the all-time great gay novels
- Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous to be a movie
- The Prophets is a love story about two enslaved gay men in the antebellum South
- Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness is “incandescent”
- Bryan Washington’s Memorial hits the shelves
- Wish Proust a happy 150th by catching up on Lost Time
- Remember Will Self’s gender-bending Cock & Bull?
History
- The fight for gay marriage is chronicled anew in The Engagement
- Not Straight, Not White is a timely reminder of Black gay history from the 1960s to AIDS
- Let the Record Show the critical story of ACT UP New York in the fight against AIDS
- The Pink Line offers a global take on LGBTQ issues
- John D’Emilio chronicles Chicago’s Queer Legacies
- New Orleans’ Up Stairs Lounge fire remembered
- Canadian queer life documented in Out North
- Brush up on the past with the classic A Queer History of the United States
Art & Photography
- Loving showcases vintage photographs of men in love
- New catalog showcases Henry Scott Tuke’s luminous paintings
- Photographer Tom Bianchi revisits the Fire Island Pines
- David Hockney: Drawing From Life on view at the Morgan
- David Leddick samples 150 years of photography in The Male Nude
- Eclectic collection of New Queer Photography edited by Wolbergs & Klos
- Stagy colorful queer portraits by Magnus Hastings
- Eric Rhein’s Lifelines documents AIDS in photos & sculpture
- Andy Warhol drew male beauty like none other