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Quote of the Day: UNITED STATES
Harold Pinter writing in 1997
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Reading List: Ron Goldberg’s BOY WITH THE BULLHORN
A heartbroken survivor of the AIDS epidemic, I spent the plague years living in New York City, the epicenter of the horror that decimated the gay world…
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From the Deep Archives: John Malkovich
and a roundabout farewell to Cafe Un Deux Trois
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From the Deep Archives: HANG ON TO ME in Minneapolis
Carmen de Lavallade, who died December 29 at the age of 94, made a name for herself as a supremely composed, regally elegant dancer with Alvin Ailey…
 • Don Shewey
Photo Diary: Christmas in Reno
Andy’s family gathered at his mother and stepfather’s house in Reno for what turned into a classic white Christmas.
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R.I.P. Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Before his flashy role on The Wire catapulted him to TV fame and frequent collaborations with Spike Lee, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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Culture Vulture: 2025 in Review
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
 • Don Shewey
Another Eye Opens
Another Eye Opens
cultural commentary from the desk of Don Shewey New York-based writer and reader, pleasure activist, queer theater scholar, proudly pervy sex educator, psychonaut, music hound, photographer, epicurean, Buddhist meditator, and Portuguese man of love
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