Homosexuality and Bisexuality

January 30, 2020

7 Questions With Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’

Jazz Jennings has been in the spotlight since 2007, when she was 6 and appeared on the ABC News program “20/20.” Wearing a dress, she opened […]
January 17, 2020

Their Story Wrote Itself

Cynthia LaFave had a word of warning when she first met T Kira Madden in 2015. “She said, ‘If you hurt my daughter, I’ll kill you,’” […]
January 10, 2020

Two Open Marriages in One Small Room

“I want to see the body,” said my 12-year-old son, Miles. He and I were sitting in our minivan outside of the hospital. I texted my […]
January 25, 2018

Social Q’s: When Hollywood Ageism Hits Close to Home

Advertisement For years, a college friend (in her 50s) has forbidden me from telling anyone we went to school together. Since moving to Hollywood, she deducted […]
November 17, 2017

Cultural Studies: ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ and Me: A 35-Year Love Affair

On a Sunday morning in the fall of 1981, I was sitting in my fourth-floor walk-up studio apartment in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, flipping through […]
November 15, 2017

Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet

Advertisement Liz Smith, the grande dame of New York’s gossip pages, played down the juiciest bit of information about herself when promoting her memoir, “Natural Blonde,” […]
November 10, 2017

Encounters: A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags

Encounters By MICHAEL SCHULMAN Hamed Sinno, the 29-year-old Lebanese rocker, showed up at Christopher Street in Manhattan looking agitated. He had gone to the wrong location […]
November 7, 2017

Modern Love: Mom: ‘Is He Jewish?’ Me: ‘No.’ Mom: ‘Is He Smart?’

Modern Love By PAUL RUDNICK After I first met John on a Manhattan dance floor, I called my mother, Selma, and told her that I’d begun […]
September 1, 2017

Modern Love: Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands?

Modern Love By NICOLE DENNIS-BENN On our first date, I dared to give her a lingering hug on a crowded subway platform on West Fourth Street, […]
July 28, 2017

Modern Love: During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered

Modern Love By ANDREW RANNELLS I don’t remember his last name. His first name was Brad, which is the perfect name for a relatively faceless memory […]