Today’s turn to lube and liberation and the new taboo on the pain of gay sexual has unintended consequences.
It’s stressful enough to fuck in the forest for fear of passers-by or the police; imagine having to also look out for curators.
The pink-papered magazine Butt gained a cult following among European gay men in the first decade of the 2000s. Peter Rehberg’s account reconstructs an important chapter of recent gay and queer history in order to make sense of the cultural shifts of the last 20 years in the contemporary queer world.
The Monkeypox outbreak exposes the failings of the technocratic biopolitical rule and the erosion of our ability to act as moral agents that plagued the Covid pandemic.
Queer Britain and Queercircle mark capital’s transition from appropriation of queer culture to full-scale colonisation.
My generation of gay men has no memory because it never became acquainted with a previous generation whose time came and went leaving a mere caricature as a historical record.
What makes a woman ‘bad’ is commonly linked to certain ‘qualities’ or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Gemma Commane speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about her study of neo-burlesque, queer performances, and explicit entertainment as sites of power, possibility, and success.