Sublime

The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific—and go to white writers to feel the universal.

coda

It was like he was trapped in a bubble around Thom, forced to watch him dazzle and distract the rest of the world, while Clay saw his true self—a hollow, manufactured jerk. Who he had to kiss.

cherub

Gilbert

It’s always startling to come across Cha’s videos in the company of other artists, as if I’m seeing a relative whom I haven’t seen for years in a bright public space. But what are you doing here, I want to ask, where have you been?

Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.

they also reflect the most irredeemable of queer intimacies, intimacies unlikely to be trumpeted as desirable freedoms.