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The End of Gay Culture: this essay was written in 2005 and it was fascinating to read. First it was about gay culture not LGBTQ+ culture which was interesting. Second I have never felt myself to be a part of either, and it is especially interesting to read about a culture that certainly no longer exists due to the fact that 20 years ago he thought it was ending. I Appreciate how far we have come that I live openly
— Sep 06, 2025 03:57PM
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Gay Cowboys Embraced by Redneck Country: this essay was a contemporary review of Brokeback Mountain. The first time I watched that movie it haunted me for like a week afterward. It was so moving and deeply emotional. He is right that stories about homosexuals that focus on love not sex are powerful forces for the culture. And stories that show how the struggles these men help keep me grateful for today’s world.
— Jun 12, 2026 04:36AM
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Islamo-Bullies Get a Free Ride from the West: great quote: “Bit by bit, free societies abandon small freedoms to accomplish the sensitivities of Muslims of Christian fundamentalists or the PC police or other touchy fanatics. Bit by bit we cede our freedoms to fear and phony civility—all in the name of getting along.” He’s obviously correct that we treat criticism of Islam differently than any other religion.
— Jun 12, 2026 04:33AM
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Still Here, So Sorry (2005): A good essay about how we should be terrified of something I am terrified of, HIV. Andrew has the means at the time of the essay’s writing to afford expensive HIV treatments compared to other people allowing him to live past 40, something he never believed would happen. He laments how he is a bad example for HIV prevention because he can live a normal life.
— Sep 01, 2025 07:54PM
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Crisis of Faith: this was the first essay that I found my self much more skeptical of Sullivan’s argument and premise. I was interested in it but typically I find myself nodding along, this one not so much.
— Feb 08, 2025 01:35PM
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Superstar: short essay about the complicated papacy of JPII. Starts with praise but ends with criticism about his handling of the church sex abuse crisis.
— Feb 03, 2025 08:01PM
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Life Lesson: a reflection on a speech Hillary Clinton gave in 2005 as a Senator where she argued that though abortion is morally complex and a tragedy for women to have to choose it should still be legal. A much more nuanced perspective than I’ve heard from any politician in the last decade.
— Feb 03, 2025 07:43PM
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Log Cabin Republican: I’ve also believed for a long long time that Lincoln was likely gay. My favorite president and not for that reason.
— Feb 02, 2025 07:04PM
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Integration day: an essay written on the day gay couples can legally marry in Massachusetts and what this now means for gay couples everywhere. Fascinating that this essay was 15 years after he wrote his seminal essay on Marriage Equality and then within 11 years time it was legal nationwide. And we are now 9.5 years from that change. A lot of progress in 35 years.
— Feb 02, 2025 06:50PM
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I am bear; hear me roar: an interesting essay on the emergence of the bear homosexual subculture and what that says about homosexuality and its emergence into broader society post HIV/AIDS and how the bear subculture differs from subcultures that came before it.
— Feb 02, 2025 06:39PM
