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‘Angels in America’: The Other Side of the American Dream
For both conservatives and liberals during the 1980s, the explosion of the HIV/AIDS crisis felt like the result of…
A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
Meet the Nazi’s Next Door in ‘This is Our Land’
Two women in their forties are sitting eating salads in a diner. One says to the other: “It’s now…
Indy contributor Gordon Glasgow reflects on how homophobia also harms straights.
Peter Hujar’s Underground New York
New York in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s was un-soiled by gentrification and alive with the energy of sexual, activist…
On-the-ground at the Berlin Film Festival
The Indy’s Gordon Glasgow is sending us updates on all the screenings and behind-the-scenes happenings from Germany. Here’s his latest.
‘Queer Eye’ — Making Over America’s Backward Culture
Early on in this Netflix reality reboot we’re told that the first Queer Eye was about tolerance. This new…
In his poem, “What Work Is,” Philip Levine, the great poet of the American working class, wrote about time…
A standard version of the history of the Sixties and Seventies emphasizes the eclipse of class struggle by “new…