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James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winners 26 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Dating from 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize has honored everyone from Lawrence, Forster, Waugh, Greene, and Compton-Burnett to Spark, Chatwin, Coetzee, Rushdie, Banville, Bainbridge, Byatt, ...
Born August 26: Christopher Isherwood 26 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Vastly underappreciated, and remembered largely for the wrong reasons, Christopher Isherwood changed the way fiction is written with his "I am a camera" style of narration. Read his interview in the P...
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Win VMA for Pro-Marriage Equality Song 26 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Accepting MTV's Video Music Award for Best Song with a Social Message for their pro-gay, pro-marriage equality jam Same Love [below], Macklemore said, "I've been writing songs since I was 15 and out o...
Albanian Virgins: Women Who Spend Their Lives as Men 25 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
If you're literate, you've probably read and re-read to the point of memorization, Alice Munro's knock-out tale "The Albanian Virgin," so you'll be interested in photographer Jill Peters' recent proje...
Born August 25: Rob Halford 25 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Hiding in plain sight for more than twenty years, the closeted lead singer of Judas Priest modeled his look on the gay leather scene which became a heavy metal mainstay. From 1974 to 1992, Rob Halford...
Rural Gay America 1900-1960 24 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
New this summer is Colin Johnson's Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America [Kindle] which, the publisher says, "explores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender no...
Born August 24: M 24 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
One of my very favorite people dislikes publicity to the exact degree that I admire her: immensely. A careful, thoughtful editor by temperament and trade, she taught me how to eat, speak, read, write,...
Born August 23: Neil Bartlett, Conner Habib 23 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
Neil Bartlett was made an OBE at forty-two for his special services to the arts. The author, translator, or director of dozens of plays for television, radio, and most especially theater, including th...
Flavorwire Lists "50 Essential Works of LGBT Fiction" 23 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Yesterday's list of fifty books Flavorwire considers essential queer fiction is sort of good, sort of awful. Yes, absolutely: Hollinghurst, Baldwin, Winterson, Forster, Mann, Sarah Waters, Isherwood, ...
Born August 22: László Almásy 22 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
To the long line of queer lives stolen, degayed, and straightened by writers and filmmakers craving a broader audience, add László Almásy [seated], the Hungarian aristocrat, desert explorer and Nazi s...
