Greta Christina, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 1:10pm
Well, my goodness.
Things certainly have changed since I was a girl.
And thank God for it.
This, more than anything else, was what kept drifting into my mind when I saw Howl, the new film...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:50pm
On November 4, 1968, a sassy new tabloid newspaper appeared on New York newsstands. Screw cost twenty-five cents and was devoted entirely to sex and porn. Because of the growing demand for...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 10:58am
In 1969 a "serious documentary" called Pornography in Denmark opened in a New York movie theatre and didn't get busted. That opened the door to other explicit films, like Sex USA and...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:07pm
Back in New York after shooting Mardi Gras, I got a call from Trixie, a six-foot drag queen (and fellow New Yorker) I'd photographed on Bourbon street. "You invited me to your studio,...
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 10:06am
He was young; he was handsome; he was rich; and he was a king. No wonder King Tut is on the cover of National Geographic again. But now archaeologists have learned that he was also crippled by a...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 12:51pm
I learned a lot about homosexual culture by reading C.A. Tripp's book, The Homosexual Matrix. I was especially interested in Tripp's ideas about the nature of sexual arousal. Erotic...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 7:00am
In 1970, photographer George Gardner invited me to join him on a trip to photograph Mardi Gras madness in New Orleans. We drove there in George's old Pugeot, and slept in the car for a week. It...
Theresa, Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 2:03pm
Anyone who tries to reduce burlesque to nothing more than flaunting nudity onstage is missing the point. Burlesque does involve stripping, but not all stripping is burlesque. The expression of...
Paul Krassner, Friday, August 6, 2010 - 9:00am
To read Part 1 of this 1962 interview with an underground abortion provider, go here.
Q. Do you find that many patients, after an abortion, have feelings of guilt or regret?
A. Yes, I generally...
Monk, Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 12:15pm
Monk, CarnalNation’s roving reporter, interviews Jennifer Tyburczy from The Leather Archives and Museum (LA&M) to discuss the launch of the Women’s Leather History Project. LA&M has existed...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 21, 2010 - 11:55am
Stonewall Week is here again, gang, time to haul out those rainbow-colored tchotchkes. You know, the plastic shit manufactured in that bastion of queer rights, the People's Republic of China. And...
Monk, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:29pm
Veronica Monet, a certified sexologist, sex educator and sex worker rights activist, was the keynote speaker at the recent Sex 2.0 conference in Seattle. Monet’s speech broadly covers the history...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 14, 2010 - 11:32am
Ah, the things you learn from debates on online message boards….
The following post, a classic from somebody named Don, is worth quoting verbatim: "Homosexuality is a harbinger of a cultures...
Megan Andelloux, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 1:26pm
Last night I received a phone call from a dejected and broken medical resident friend of mine. He admitted to me that he was close to tears from having to make life and death decisions for patients...
Liz Highleyman, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 2:55pm
Over the course of four decades, HIV has gone from being a near-certain death sentence to a "manageable illness." Treatment has evolved from handfuls of marginally effective tablets and...
Simon Sheppard, Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 12:19pm
Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake to Hardcore
By Jeffrey Escoffier
Running Press
$24.95, 368 pp.
Though I'm not, I confess, much of a consumer of commercial porn videos (...
Margaret Wade, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:26am
It might have taken humans a while to figure out the male's contribution to procreation, but the science of it took even longer. Yet even before the Western scientific world had determined sperm's...
Liz Farsaci, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 10:40am
An autumnal chill is in the air, and many store displays now boast Halloween costumes and decorations. I often dress up as a witch—it's easy (although every year I vow to put more thought into...
