Gay Men

A&E Why "Brüno" is bad for the gays

Sacha Baron Cohen's character could have been a bold stab at homophobia. Instead it's a mincing minstrel show
  • Do you have to be gay to tell another guy his eyes are pretty?

    My gaydar says my good-looking co-worker is gay, but he pretends otherwise.
  • May day!

    George W. Bush would like to discharge openly gay soldiers from the Army. So why is Lt. Steve May, the openly gay Arizona legislator, endorsing him?
  • No puppy-dog tails

    Karl Soehnlein's first novel, "The World of Normal Boys," calls into question traditional ideas of boyhood.
  • Field report: The "Oz" convention

    Last weekend's gathering featured everything from real Munchkins to a newly authorized pillbox depicting Dorothy and Toto. (A Judy Garland pillbox? Hello?)
  • Descent of the divas

    Gay men once worshipped some of the most over-the-top female entertainers, but the deification of the flamboyant, the bitchy and the damaged has become an anachronism.
  • From "Hey Faggot" to "Hey Daddy"

    Savage Dan Savage softens up in fatherhood: Now he's a bitch with a burp rag.
  • You meet the nicest folks in porn theaters

    Gay writer Samuel Delany mourns the late, great and sweetly raunchy Times Square.
  • 24-hour Naughty-house

    Is your gym a den of inequity?
  • The Best of Friends

    Daniel Mendelsohn looks at how Hollywood movies depict friendships between gay men and straight women
  • "Happy Together"

    Charles Taylor reviews 'Happy Together' directed by Wong Kar-Wai and starring Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
  • The AIDS epidemic is just beginning

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