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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”

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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 →

A Session of Porn Therapy in Dean Sameshima’s “Being Alone” at Queer Thoughts
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A Session of Porn Therapy in Dean Sameshima’s “Being Alone” at Queer Thoughts

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Can you write an essay about porn theaters that doesn’t cite Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue? Similarly, can you look at photographs of queer spaces and not immediately start flipping through Jose Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia to find a relevant quote? These two texts have done a number on criticism and critical … Continue reading →