New and Noteworthy: What We’re Reading
BY Claire Potter ON March 25, 2015
Sandip Roy, “A New Gay Fairy Tale,” on leaving the city where you learn how to be gay and going home (New York Times (March 12 2015.)- A bold voice from the archives: Shama Nathan, “A Note from a 16 Year-Old Black Feminist on Behalf of My Queer, Black Sisters,” Black Girl Dangerous (September 30, 2014.)
- History in the making: Denise L. Eger is named the first openly gay president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (New York Times, March 16 2015.)
- When Mom and Dad are both queer: Stephen Lynch Strassfeld, as told to Beth Tepper, “Life With Dad and “The Aunties;” from The Recollectors: Remembering Parents Lost to AIDS (undated); interview originally done and archived by StoryCorps. HT John D’Emilio.
- Punishment for male intimacy — or something else? Kit Heyam, “Beyond Penetration: Rethinking the Murder of Edward II,” Notches (March 24, 2015.)
- Don’t ask intimate questions with which you would not burden cisgendered people: Sunnivie Brydum, “8 Things Women Partnered With Trans Men Know,” The Advocate (March 24, 2015.)
- A crossroads in gay life: Daniel Wenger, “HBO’s `Looking,’ Marriage and the New Gay Sadness,” (The New Yorker (March 22, 2014.)
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