The Redpill and Queer Theory Are Arguing About the Same Thing
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Looksmaxxing Is Colonizing Gay Dating Apps — Here's How It Happened
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The Manosphere Is Obsessed With Men's Bodies. It Just Won't Say Why.
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The Blackpill and the Closet: Two Grammars of "No One Will Want Me"
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The Best Gay Dating Apps in 2025 — And Why the Best Relationships Start With Shared Taste
Passages (2023): Desire Without Apology
Passages was given an NC-17 rating in the United States — the rating that, in practice, makes theatrical distribution impossible — for a scene of ma...
Falcon Entertainment: The Studio That Started It All
In 1971, a man named Chuck Holmes rented a small space in San Francisco, bought a camera, and began making gay pornographic films with a level of prod...
Men.com: The Mainstream Machine
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Midnight Cowboy (1969): The Love Story Hollywood Didn't Know It Was Making
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
My Own Private Idaho (1991): Shakespeare on the Road
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
Paris Is Burning (1990): The Document and the Argument About It
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...