“As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston” Keeps Dancing and Breaking out the Booze Through the Archives
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“As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston” Keeps Dancing and Breaking out the Booze Through the Archives

A monstrous gaudy powder-white Christmas wreath, adorned with silver balls and a gigantic red bow, towers over a full bar. The ginormous wreath is flanked by metallic cut-out stars, floating down from the heavens, caught by a single string pinned to the ceiling. Partially hidden behind the pine needles like an upstaged choir are the … Continue reading

Where Have All the Perverts Gone?: The Museum of Sex Rekindles Late-20th Century Queer Filth in “Radical Perverts”
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Where Have All the Perverts Gone?: The Museum of Sex Rekindles Late-20th Century Queer Filth in “Radical Perverts”

Radical Perverts: Ecstasy and Activism in Queer Public Space, 1975-2000 at the Museum of Sex should come with its own scratch-and-sniff cards. Steal the patented Odorama technology used in John Waters’s Polyester–who gives a fuck. Dean Sameshima’s delightfully clinical series of four public restrooms, Untitled (South Bay Tearooms), which, much like Jimmy DeSana’s early series … Continue reading