The Homo Life

Most people think of poets as stuffy guys who wear tweed suits and refuse to read any words written before 1922. These poets do exist, but for the most part contemporary poets (at least the queer American ones) are as [...]

  A few weeks ago in Berlin, I picked up Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. I had read both chauvinists’ rebukes of the Facebook COO’s success and feminists’ articles decrying Sandberg for criticizing women’s [...]

  Every year A&R executives use the same formula to promote pop singers. The starlet volunteers for a magazine or blog to profile her social life and style; the paper focuses on promoting outrage instead of her music; said outrage [...]

  No, I’m not talking about Alexyss Tylor’s historic public access segment of the same name in which she talks to her mother about dick, but rather the book by Dr. Dudley Danoff titled “Penis Power: The Ultimate Guide to [...]

  Whether you’re single, heartbroken, obsessed with Facebook stalking your crush, crying over your ex, or happily or unhappily in a relationship (come back to this article once your relationship has ended), many of us will be lovesick on Valentine’s [...]

  You’ve probably never heard of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, but you’ve probably seen (and loved) one of their TV shows, and their new coffee table book for the generation without coffee tables, “The World According To Wonder,” recounts [...]

During the summer of 2007, I spent every day at Barnes & Noble searching for books about gay men. After years of relating to Britney Spears, Courtney Love, and Judy Garland, I needed boys like me, boys I couldn’t find [...]