Luca Guadagnino
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The Impossible Object of Queer Desire January 28, 2025
The late British writer Quentin Crisp, despite being one of the first openly homosexual men in England, was lambasted as “homophobic” and “misogynistic” for his self-deprecatory quips about the “perversity” of homosexuality. His lament that gay men a...
The Romanticized Squalor of 'Queer' December 06, 2024
The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella in 1953, Queer was not released to the public until 1...
