Daniel Reitz

  • John Waters

    It's been a long, nauseating haul, but the director of "Pink Flamingos" and the new "Cecil B. DeMented" has made it as an American icon.
  • Dennis Cooper

    With his excoriating, hallucinatory, viciously funny vision, he's the most important transgressive literary artist since William S. Burroughs -- but even Burroughs didn't get death threats.
  • Stroking my inner boyfriend

    Ex-model/novelist Brad Gooch's "Finding the Boyfriend Within" reaches a new low in the gay self-help genre.
  • "Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me"

    A writer considers his place in the pantheon of homosexual Hispanic letters.
  • "Love Is Where It Falls"

    A gay actor recalls his 11-year "passionate friendship" with a straight woman 40 years his senior.
  • Breakfast on Pluto

    Daniel Reitz reviews 'Breakfast on Pluto' by Patrick McCabe.
  • Let Nothing You Dismay

    Daniel Reitz reviews 'Let Nothing You Dismay' by Mark O'Donnell
  • The bridegroom stripped bare

    A gay man discovers that the goings-on at a straight male stag party are kinkier than he could have imagined.
  • Filth

    Daniel Reitz reviews 'Filth' by Irvine Welsh.
  • Toward a post-gay world

    Gay Pride Month passed quietly this year -- maybe that means we no longer really need to make so much noise.
  • An Instance Of The Fingerpost

    Daniel Reitz reviews 'An Instance of the Fingerpost' by Iain Pears
  • Edmund White

    Daniel Reitz interviews Edmund White, author of 'The Farewell Symphony,' 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'The Beautiful Room is Empty.'
  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    Now that Andrew Cunanan is out of the way, gays can go back to their old narcissistic, self-absorbed ways, all in the name of "pride."

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