Gay life

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On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall, I've assembled some of my writing on gay topics, going back to the first piece I wrote for The New Yorker, in 1993. The photo is from my marriage to Jonathan at Toronto City Hall, 2005.

Love on the March. Nov. 4, 2012.

Gay Berlin, Jan. 26, 2015.

Oscar Wilde, Aug. 9, 2011.

Willa Cather, Oct. 2, 2017.

Corigliano's First Symphony, May 30, 2019.

Gay opera, July 27, 2017.

Julius Eastman, Jan. 15, 2017.

Women, gays, and classical music. Oct. 3, 2013.

Beyond the gay-marriage victory, March 25, 2013.

Gay-rights victories, Nov. 7, 2012.

Thomas Mann, March 11, 1996.

In memoriam River Phoenix, Washington Post, Nov. 7, 1993.

On Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat, April 12, 1993.