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1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended

by Mark Simpson
July 3, 2024July 22, 2024

On the 55th anniversary of the NYC bar riot at which everyone over 75 now claims they threw the first bottle, I thought I would post this piece about the expiration of gay bohemianism in the 1980s. More a series of not terribly well-integrated notes than essay, it was originally… Read More »1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended

Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution

by Mark Simpson
November 3, 2022February 15, 2024

Everything you wanted to know about 2nd gen metrosexuality & ‘androgyny on androgens’ but were afraid to ask Originally published in 2018 (in Spanish) in the Catalan anthropological periodical Quaderns (No. 34, 2018). Expanded from a feature written for GQ Style (‘Attack of the Spornosexuals’), and a lecture I gave at Men in… Read More »Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution