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Hua Tang’s Daughter Gets a Tattoo
by Linsey Liao 10/22/2022Neighborhood: East Village
23 minutes away from the East Village, Manhattan, and Hua Tang’s mascara has already snowballed beneath her lashes. I don’t look any better — glancing at my window reflection, I register, my resemblance to the racist portrayals of Chinese people in 19th-century American comics. My eyes are swollen to the point where my field of […]
Dead Weight
by Raphael Lasar 10/14/2022Neighborhood: East Village, Greenwich Village
When I was a teenager, during the second half of the 1970s, I pretty much lived in Washington Square Park during the summer. I sometimes joke that in some ways I was raised there. In some ways that is not so funny. Yippies, Jesus Freaks, drug addicts, tourists, and street performers were my friends and […]
Marsha Hunt Visits The New York Times
by Wendell Jamieson 10/09/2022Neighborhood: Times Square
The black and white world has enchanted me since I was little. Those films are like fever dreams, so divorced from reality. And film noir is the most fevered dream of all – doomed men and women, gangsters, con-men and dupes, all trapped, all lost, all hopeless. It is hard to imagine these desperate characters […]
The Price of Inclusion
by Jack Lancaster 10/01/2022Neighborhood: Chelsea, Fire Island, Greenpoint, Meatpacking District
I didn’t get invited to go to Fire Island this year, which makes me feel like a gay pariah. I’m painfully aware of this after watching the movie, Fire Island. I loved it, but it reinforced my feeling that I lacked a queer community, and notably, one with a summer share in the Pines. My […]