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9. THE NEXT REAL DEAL 48. TEN PLACES TO GO IN 201 Claire Foy: from Elizabeth to Lisbeth Our guide to this season’s hottest destinations 12-16. THE AGENDA Everything in pop culture you 54. INCHING TO STARDOM should be talking about right now Inside the phenomenon of new social media porn platforms 17, 18. TRENDING like OnlyFans Posh purses and protective parkas 60. POP GOES KIM PETRAS 23. GROOMING The budding diva’s escapist This is the rhythm of the night. pop sells an irresistible fantasy, but what’s the reality 24. KITCHEN 411 behind the bops? Oakland’s diverse restaurant scene 68. YOUNG, LOUD, AND FREE 25. LIQUIDITY Social media sensation Vodka’s new shelf life Rickey Thompson is a stylish and joyous face of a new 26. WELLNESS movement of outspoken queer Is yoga just masking your pain? black men.

27. THE GETAWAY 80. NO INTERMISSION Late Birds is Lisbon’s all-gay hotel. Playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris might be the tireless 28. PLAYGROUND queer black savior the theater There’s a spot for everyone world needs. at Mexico City’s Pervert.

Orbit Symposium 85. Queen 101 31. THE MANY FIBERS OF BEING As Bohemian Rhapsody Artist Jefrey Gibson rejoices in merging his struts into theaters, we queer and Native American identities. serve up a beginner’s quide to the band that’s 34. EMERGENCY CONTACT penetrated our culture Comedian Lane Moore gets brutally honest. for decades.

35. EXPRESS MALE ORDER What your undies say about you DEPARTMENTS 36. PERSONAL IS POLITICAL 0 6. Contributors The reality for queer people living in Serbia Kim Petras photographed by and Feedback Martin Schoeller. 88. Store Info 42. BLACK, BROWN, AND GAY Styling by Matthew Mazur How Mary Washington flipped the script in Dress by Adam Selman. Maryland’s battle for marriage equality ON THE COVER: Earrings by Alessandra Rich. Necklace by Rory Rockmore Rickey Thompson 42. A STORM OF DISCOURSE photographed by Reflecting on the influence of Philadelphia Danielle Levitt. Styling by 44. RE-GAYING ANDY WARHOL Grant Woolhead. A retrospective spotlights the icon’s All clothing by queerness. Dries Van Noten

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BY R. KURT OSENLUND. PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON EMMETT CLAIRE FOY IS SMACK in the middle of one of the most common movie climaxes: the mad dash to the airport. But instead of chasing the soulmate she nearly let slip away, the British- born actress is simply getting out of Tinseltown. It’s the day after the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, where Foy won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Season 2 of Netflix’s The Crown. She’s calling from a car, and she’s deeply apologetic— for the turn-signal sounds, the chatter of her team, and even her acceptance speech. “It was a disaster!” says Foy, who hours before seemed like the lone soul in the Microsoft Theater shocked by her marquee name. “I was adamant win for brilliantly portraying Queen In March, Foy ditched her English Elizabeth II. (And, unless you define accent and peered into Steven that nothing could disaster as only name-dropping one of Soderbergh’s fish-eye lens, playing the your fellow nominees—Sandra Oh—Foy’s lead in the auteur’s mental-asylum be in there that speech was hardly that.) mindfuck Unsane. Last month, she was titillating, or “It was such a singular experience,” played Janet Shearon, the hard-nosed she goes on to say of the role itself, wife of Neil Armstrong in Damien could be seen as which saw her embody young Elizabeth Chazelle’s fact-based First Man, a film being for the male CAVALLI ROBERTO BY COAT PAGE: . THIS and nabbed her a Golden Globe and two that saw her share top billing with Ryan SAG awards. “It’s diicult to replicate.” Gosling. And this month, she rocks a gaze. It had to be Perhaps, but as Foy departs The Crown, roughhewn mohawk and piercings in entirely from her.” relinquishing her throne to actress The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the next Olivia Colman (who’ll play the queen adventure of bisexual vigilante Lisbeth in middle age as the series continues), Salander, and a spin-of, of sorts, of From Femme Fatale to Atomic MCCARTNEY STELLA BY ESS she isn’t short on new options to attain David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with Blonde, sexual fluidity among female glory. If Margot Robbie is the new the Dragon Tattoo ( 2011 ). ass-kickers like Salander has become Charlize Theron (an underestimated “The story has moved beyond the common, but her unique agenda blonde bombshell with stealth Oscar first three books,” says Foy, noting that as a feminist avenger helps clear up clout), then Foy just might be the new Spider’s Web is based on the 2015 novel skepticism over whom that detail is Jessica Chastain—an actress who seems by David Lagercrantz, who continued actuallyserving.“ImadesurethatI to have achieved ubiquity in a snap, Salander’s saga after Stieg Larsson, constantly had that conversation,” Foy and, most important, has the range and author of the original Millennium says. “I was adamant that nothing could chops to validate it. Foy isn’t just the trilogy, died in 2004. “She’s such a be in there that was titillating, or could next big thing; she’s the next real deal. complex character, and there’s so much be seen as being for the male gaze. It “Every day is absolutely diferent,” more of her to discover.” That includes hadtobeentirelyfromher.” says the 34-year-old, who honed her pivotal rivalry with her estranged Lisbeth Salander has now been her craft early on at Liverpool John and unhinged sister, but one thing played by Noomi Rapace, Rooney Moores University and the Oxford fans already know about Salander is Mara, and Foy, and it’s safe to assume School of Drama before making her her proclivity to sleep with both men a fourth actress may sport her dragon Royal National Theatre debut in 2008. and women, a detail Foy describes as tattoo in the future. Like Catwoman, Foy’s 2018 may not be as prolific as an inherent part of the rule-defying she’s become a theatrical icon of Chastain’s 2011 (in which the Oscar heroine. “She doesn’t associate herself female rebellion, too wild to be owned nominee starred in a whopping seven with hardly anything but work,” says byasingleperformer,evenonewith films), but Foy’s personal daily variety the actress, whose own work involved Foy’s talent. “The work is there to be matches her current professional fight choreography and motorcycle reinvented and reinterpreted by anyone output. And moreover, without any chases. “She doesn’t want to be defined whowantstohaveagoatit,”Foysays. prior endorsement from ticket buyers, or even respected. Her sexuality is not “The lovely thing about being an actress she’s that rare female newcomer whom the topic of this movie, but that’s who is that you don’t own the part–especially

Hollywood has suddenly decreed a she is, so that’s the role I play.” this one. Nobody does.” DR PAGE: PREVIOUS LEE NAILS: MOORE. CORNWELL. KELLY MAKEUP: FERRAZ. HAIR: CARLOS YATES. NICKY BY STYLING

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3. Cynthia Erivo’s Cinematic Leap

Cynthia Erivo wants it all. The actress, renowned for her work Erivo is set to play another unwavering woman, and onstage (particularly as Celie in the Broadway revival of The an iconic one at that, in Harriet, an Oscar-baity biopic of Color Purple, which won her a Tony in 2016 ), is making the Harriet Tubman, with Erivo in the title role. (Filming began jump to film this fall with starring roles in the action thrillers in October.) “The journey to getting on set was scary,” says Widows and Bad Times at the El Royale. the 31-year-old, “but it’s a challenge I am really ready for In Widows, opening November 16, Erivo plays Belle, a single and probably something I’ve been waiting for all my life. I’m mom who’s hustling to make ends meet for her and her honored to be a part of telling this story, because it’s a story 6-year-old daughter. She joins three women—led by the that needs to be told.” indomitable Viola Davis—to carry out the unfinished heists of Other idols who have inspired Erivo include Aretha Franklin their late, bank-robbing husbands. “She pulls no punches,” and Barbra Streisand, a woman whose widespread talents fuel Erivo says of Belle. “She isn’t a woman of many words, but Erivo’s career hopes. “Streisand is a true Renaissance woman,” she’ll tell you what she’s thinking, and she’s prepared to do she says. “She runs the whole gamut yet still maintains a what she needs to do to take care of her kid—good, bad, or wonderful air about herself. That’s what I want: to be able to do indiferent.” a number of things really beautifully.” ALEXANDER KACALA

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Calavera This spacious, high-ceilinged Mexican restaurant has been packed since opening in 2015, and for good reason. The food Culinary Revolution in the is inventive but true to executive chef Gustavo Bay Area’s Brooklyn Romano’s Oaxacan roots. For In spruced-up Oakland, the restaurant scene reflects a diverse Umami Mole, beer-battered community with a rich history. hen of the woods mushrooms are served with puréed IT’SALMOSTTOOPERFECT acoincidence when it was rumored to operate as a gay plantains and a 22-ingredient thatalargeswathofOaklandwasonce speakeasy. Located in Bushrod Park, mole poblano, using a recipe passed down to Romano by his knownasBrooklyn—afterashipthat ahistoricallyblack,workingclass grandmother. broughtMormonsettlerstoCalifornia neighborhood, the bar is now on the (2337 Broadway, in1846—beforeitwasrenamedEast frontline of Oakland’s rapid gentrification, calaveraoakland.com) Oakland. Like that famously eclectic New ashomepricesriseandlongtimeresidents York borough, this scrappy Bay city, with struggle to keep up. Café Van Kleef itsvibrantartssceneandrefurbished UptownOaklandusedtobewhere People come to this tiny waterfront,hasbecomeabywordforthe people went to shop at Sears, but with Telegraph Avenue mainstay kind of inefable cool that few other cities retail in rapid retreat—the store closed in for one thing—the signature can equal. 2014—restaurants and cafés have taken up Greyhound, made with freshly MuchofthathastodowithOakland’s residence.“Youcan’tchangeprogress,” squeezed grapefruit. Marvel at the décor—think Parisian flea culturalandethnicdiversity,which says hometown hero James Copes, who market—while soaking in the providestheimpetusfortoday’sdynamic coinedthenickname“Oaktown”decades friendly vibe. foodscene.Whetherit’spungentberbere ago and sells a popular line of T shirts and (1621 Telegraph Ave., spikedsaucesinthecity’smanyEthiopian baseball caps celebrating his native city. On cafevankleef.com) restaurants, or traditional Oaxacan Sundaysyoucansometimesfindhim at the dishes(wherethetortillasaremadefrom farmers’ market in Jack London Square, Ramen Shop heirloom corn), the secret ingredient where he’ll happily walk you through his There are just three ramen toOakland’sriseasafoodiehubisthe collection of news clippings and photos in dishes on the menu of this community the restaurants serve. Since which he poses with luminaries like Black noodle bar, but each is a work of thecityhasonlyjustemergedasatourist Panthers co founder Huey P. Newton and art. Sit at the 18-seat wooden counter, grab a spoon from destination,thefoodisgoodwithoutbeing tennislegendArthurAshe.“Oakland has the wooden box, and dig into pretentious, made by—and for—those who beenAmerica’sbestkeptsecret,”he says. the Veggie Meyer Lemon live there. To hang with the locals, head “I want people to come here and get to Shoyu Ramen, a silky bowl of to the White Horse Inn, which claims to knowwhoweare,butIdon’twant them to pleasure. betheoldestqueerbarinAmerica,with take over and pretend nothing happened (5812 College Ave.,

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24 NOVEMBER 2018 OUT FOREGROUND: LIQUIDITY

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A Divine Road to Nowhere Are you too dependent on spiritual practices like yoga to namaste the pain away?

AMERICA’S SELF-IMPROVEMENT culture is bursting with promises that this road or that path willbetheultimatewaytofindspiritual fulfillment.Virtuallyeverybookstoreandmedia platformdevotecopiousrealestatetopost- religionbiblesofbetterment.Asqueerpeople,we canbeespeciallyvulnerabletotheallureofthese programs—potential distractions from curing deeper emotional issues that sit unresolved. Someofustaketheseroutesasquickfixestosave face,whileignoringwoundswemightharbor under layers of identity that are already complex enough. Knowninpsychologicalcirclesas“spiritual bypassing,”yogaisonepracticeoftenusedto sidestepbonafidehousecleaning.Itsurelyisn’t allbad:Formany,yogaisaboutfocusingona spiritual upswing that serves them well in the longrun.Butforthosewhoseinnerdemons can’tbehushedbydownwarddogs,aredirection towardtrulyobservingemotionsandtraumacan be key. “Spiritual bypassing is basically defined as the overindulgence in spiritual tools,” says Matthew “If we’re doing opportunities to actually heal. And while it J.Dempsey,alicensedclinicalcounselorbasedin can be challenging for a group of people with LosAngeles.“Thesetools,likeyoga,aretypically anything that a history of social rejection, there are better used to help gain greater peace, but they’re often simply masks avenues that involve vulnerable connections and viewedwithanexpectationofguaranteeing pain, sadness, practices [like, say, group therapy].” peace forever, which is of course unrealistic. It’s Although it’s rarely easy, sometimes the notunlikeapersonwhooveranalyzeslife or loneliness, answer simply involves shifting your focus— choices instead of actually taking risks and odds are and your outlook. In her book Recovering living.” we’re Spirituality: Achieving Emotional Sobriety in Howcanyoutellifyou’redoingthisyourself? Your Spiritual Practice, Dr. Ingrid Clayton serves Dempseysays,“Oneofthebestindicationsthat deflecting, up encouraging insights into how changing her you’reusingsomethinglikeyogaforspiritual and missing thinking changed her daily grind. “I’ve redefined bypassing is gauging your ability to sit with out on my own finish line from ‘becoming someone’ to uncomfortable thoughts and feelings—and open accepting who I am and where I am in my life,” upaboutthem.”InDempsey’sexperience,gay opportunities she writes. “I can still have a sense of purpose menareparticularlysusceptibletothis.“We to actually and intention. The diference [now] is that I try typicallyhaveahypersensitivitytocriticism not to use a spiritual path...some golden road free becauseofexperienceswithhomophobia,andat heal.” of frailty...as an escape hatch for the present.” timesthey’llgraspforanything,anystrategy,to In discussing her clients, Dr. Clayton goes on avoidwhatsocietydeemsanegativeemotion.” to write that there’s always a balance between He continues, “Yoga, meditation, or any avoiding spiritual bypass and working on mindfulness practice is appealing because yourself in other ways, through outdoor activities they’reactiveandmeasurable.Buttheycan and, yes, yoga. So go ahead and roll out your mats be misinterpreted. If we’re doing anything and align your chakras—just make sure that’s that simply masks pain, sadness, or loneliness, not the only task involved with your inside job.

odds are we’re deflecting and missing out on ALEXANDER KACALA LOLI EUGENIA BY COLLAGE

26 NOVEMBER 2018 OUT FOREGROUND: THE GETAWAY

For the Sausage Party Sophisticate Up close and personal at the Late Birds, Portugal’s gay, all-male, boutique hotel Views at the Late Birds hotel

AT SOME TIME near noon on any given day, in an unassuming town house on a steep and stony road in downtown Lisbon, the boys come to life. Soon, sneakers (and the muscled calves slipped into them) start scampering down creaky wooden stairs toward a large, sun-soaked breakfast room, where homemade Portuguese shortbread biscoitos and pasteis de nata (egg tarts) are served amid a heaping pile of crumbling cakes, jams, and fruit from the owners’ orchard. After two weeks of hitting fancy international hotels in and out of the city, this was the scene I stumbled into at the Late Birds, Lisbon’s gay, male-only, unavoidably intimate hotel. “Our breakfast has no end time,” says Carlos Sanches Ruivo, co-founder of the resort—with a name that hints at the guests who find “While there’s the hotel’s lush courtyard. Adding to that view? themselves fluttering home to their rooms in the always a A mix of lime and orange trees, jasmine, and wee hours. Lisbon discos rage well past 6 A.M., palms framing a garden pool, which is quiet and, indeed, a few members of the flock who vodka cocktail when men aren’t splashing in it. It’s a rare join me at breakfast are still soaked in the smells or another sanctuary in the center of bustling Lisbon. And of last night. But the Late Birds is not merely a while there’s always a vodka cocktail or another place to keep the party going, nor is it a halfway male within male within reach, this isn’t your typical, house between day and night. reach, this overtly sexualized queer getaway. Shared In a renovated 18th-century building, the isn’t your moments seem genuine, and the location itself luxe B&B is more home than hotel. “We wanted seems to foster a unique sense of candidness and to keep it as close to a house as possible,” says typical, overtly friendship for all who’ve checked in. (Of course, Ruivo, who lives on-site. The architecture sexualized it’s not a fully platonic afair, and upstairs, features natural materials like lioz limestone, queer there’s ample action when the sun goes down.) stucco, and wood, and they’re paired with “It’s really important that people feel Portuguese elements like large shutters and getaway.” comfortable here,” says Ruivo, who tells me that hardwood floors—a nod to the traditions of the nearly a third of the hotel’s guests are American, region. Custom pieces by local designer Marco and that each week, five to 10 patrons return Sousa Santos are thrown in for a splash of chic to Late Birds after a previous stay. And why modernity, and heirlooms from the original wouldn’t they? Tucked into the Bairro Alto facade and the owners’ private past—such as an neighborhood (the city’s East Village equivalent), antique African totem brought back from Paris— the hotel seems to have it all. Well, everything are scattered throughout to make things more except a sauna. “For that, you’ll have to go personal. next door,” says Ruivo, referring to Trombeta Speaking of which, group interaction is Bath, just down the street. All that leaves is the encouraged at the Late Birds, and during my challenge of ever wanting to exit the grounds. stay, a whole lot of guests cozied up to me in JOSHUA GLASS LISBON BIRDS OF THE LATE OF COURTESY

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Mexico City’s Pervert No matter your gender, class, or orientation, this traveling bacchanal has a spot for you on the sweat-slicked dance floor.

“WE ARE A QUEER collective that fuses disco, house, and techno music with sexuality, performances, nudity, and art,” says Robin García, creative director and proprietor of Pervert, a gritty yet joyous traveling bash in Mexico City, and one where the only thing that seems forbidden is a closed mind. “We go beyond the music by integrating erotic installations, paintings by Juanjo Sainz, and illustrations by Simón Malvaez,” García says. “We also enable spaces for sexual encounters and provide condoms, lubricants, and information on sexual education. We believe that pleasure is a right for all.” While past Pervert gatherings have been held at Plaza Mesones and the Crisanta Cervecería Garage (each enhanced by the collective’s neon signage, which travels with it), no one ever knows where the party will pop up next, which makes it all the more enticing for guests thirsty for diversity. “For nearly two years, we’ve met once a month in underground locations,” García says. “We’ve done the party in cellars, billiard halls, movie theaters, and abandoned mansions.” The Pervert crowd is a gorgeous blend of unshaven men, unabashed regulars, drag queens, performance artists, fleeting lovers, and gender-defying danceaholics, some of whom feel no necessity to wear clothes. García likens Mexico City’s underground scene to that of Berlin and says Pervert’s dance floor is attracting DJs both locally and abroad. “We have Villaseñor and Portugal,” he says, “two DJs who are famous in the local LGBTQ community. We’ve also had guest DJs from other cities, such as Eris Drew and Harry Cross from Chicago, Sarah Wild from Berlin, David Banjela from Los Angeles, Jeremy Castillo from San Francisco, and Wildfiction from

28 NOVEMBER 201 OUT PHOTOGRAPHY BY IRINA ARELLANO AND IRVING CABELLO Slovakia.” And there’s no room for gender discrimination behind the Pervert turntables. “It’s very important for us to make visible the female talent in the electronic music of Mexico,” García says. “When we discover an experienced or even up-and-coming DJ girl, we integrate her into our lineup.” García says that Pervert will soon be welcoming DJs from New York and Paris, and on November 3, he and his team will present “Pervert XIX: Halloqueer,” to be held at Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo). If you want to attend, chances are you’ll be able to. “The party has become very popular in CDMX because all people, regardless of gender, identity, orientation, or economic position, are welcome,” he says. “In a country like Mexico, where more than half of its people live in poverty, we ofer an experience that is accessible to all. This is a country where there’s still classism and prejudice, but our community feels comfortable expressing its sexuality—and freely.” R. KURT OSENLUND

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GUPTA, CHICAGO. PHOTOGRAPH BY CA BY PHOTOGRAPH CHICAGO. GUPTA, WITH MASSIVE GARMENTS AND TECHNICOLOR PAINTINGS, ARTIST JEFFREY GIBSON REJOICES INMERGINGHISQUEERANDNATIVEAMERICANIDENTITIES.

By Coco Romack helmets decadently adorned with found objects, “The dance and seven glorious large-scale tunics hung from would bring WHAT WE WEAR has always served as a means tepee poles. A gay man and a Native American to wield power. With wigs and makeup, drag of Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, Gibson has prosperity to JENKINS & CO, NEW YORK / KAVI KAVI / YORK NEW JENKINS CO, & queens summon larger-than-life alter egos; with woven his own multifaceted identity within the the tribe, but a colored handkerchief tucked in the back pocket fibrous layers of these tunics, which reference of his Levi’s, a gay man can broadcast his sexual traditional shirts associated with the Ghost Dance at the same appetites; and with studs, nose rings, and leather movement, originating with the Paiute in the late time, the jackets, punks can call out to members of their 19th century. subculture while also fending of anyone they “You would make these shirts, and then you shirt would may want out of their path. Through the ritual would dance in them,” says Gibson, who spent protect of getting dressed, we are transformed, by visual much of his youth moving around with his family. language, into someone entirely new—identified (His father, a civil engineer with the United you from and diferentiated by our chosen armor. States government, brought him from Germany what was This notion was the launching point for to New Jersey to Korea and finally to Maryland.) called the Jefrey Gibson’s exhibition “This Is the Day” at Gibson notes that while he attended powwows, the Wellin Museum in Clinton, N.Y., one of four he wasn’t raised in a traditional Native American white man’s solo shows now on view from the 46-year-old environment. He did, however, absorb the bullet.” artist. In addition to more than 50 works of philosophies behind the fashions. “The idea was

COURTESY OF THE ARTIST / ROBERTS PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES SIKKEMA / LOS ROBERTS / PROJECTS, ARTIST THE OF COURTESY sculpture, painting, and video, there are five that [the dance] would bring unity and prosperity

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andstrengthbacktothetribe,butatthesame This page, clockwise from top left: Detail time,theshirtwouldprotectyoufromwhatwas from Peace, 2018; calledthewhiteman’sbullet.” Jeffrey Gibson; I Forthemakersoftheseceremonialshirts, Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, andfortheartisanswhokeepthesetraditions 2018; Because alive,thereisspiritualityinboththeprocessand Once You Enter My House It Becomes the performance—a spirituality Gibson adopts Our House, 2018. gave in to the glittery, shiny excess.” inhisownart-making.“There’satremendous Opposite page, Gibson, who attended the Art Institute of clockwise from amount of faith in the practice of these artisanal top left: Oceana, Chicago in the early ’90s, began his career as techniques,” he says, “which are really about 2018; Watchtower, a painter. His signature style is identified by 2018; Peace, 2018; strengthening and continuing cultures that might Death, 2018 exuberant, technicolor geometric abstractions, otherwise not survive. I began to understand a technique he’s also applied to his garments. “I thatitwasarealformofresistancefor think about everything from a painting people to continue to create and to pass perspective,” he says. By which he ., NEW YORK. PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON WYCHE (PAINTINGS) WYCHE JASON BY PHOTOGRAPH YORK. ., NEW down their dance regalia within their means, in two dimensions. “Even when communities.” I make a three-dimensional object or ThegarmentsandhelmetsGibson garment, I think about multiple two- hascreatedareanamalgamoffar- dimensional surfaces coming together. flung references mined from aspects of So you really end up with a front and hisownhistoryaswellaspopculture a back, and when the garments are on and contemporary political issues. somebody, you’re getting an image.” Incorporating a variety of materials Another just-opened exhibition, “I (frombeadsandvintagequiltstochifon Am a Rainbow Too” at Sikkema Jenkins andsilkthataredigitallyprintedwith Gallery in New York City, shines a Gibson’s writing and photos from the light on Gibson’s painting since 2010, Dakota Access Pipeline protests), they are showcasing a series of compositions in / SIKKEMA JENKINS& CO ARTIST OF THE ). COURTESY

at once a comment on race and religion which, for the central imagery, he has PEACE andanindulgentodetotherichnessof lifted lyrics from ’80s and ’90s club hits, identity—dripping with fringe ribbons. along with melancholy words from Nina Exaggerated in size and incredibly Simone, one of his longtime inspirations. heavy, the garments are more sculpture “I remember going to nightclubs in than practical garb. They also serve as the late ’80s and early ’90s and just anodtothesubversive,over-the-top feeling like, within the club, there was humorthathasoccasionallyleftviewers a kind of tribal feel of unity, and feeling N). COURTESY OF JOHN BENTHEM ( BENTHEM OF JOHN N). COURTESY dismissing Gibson’s work, even if that like there was family,” says Gibson, who type of humor has long been a source of relates the celebratory themes in his parody in the queer community. “Kitsch work to the microcosms of the powwow and camp, when they occurred initially, and the gay club. “I know there was a lot were really survival tools,” the artist of pain. There were a lot of people dying says.“Iwantedtoembracethatbecause at that time. There were a lot of people foralongtime,Ikindofrejectedit...like, mourning. But somehow, at a club, you

‘No,I’mnotthatkindofgay.’Ifinally were united in celebration.” (GIBSO KIST OF ANDREW COURTESY

32 NOVEMBER 201 OUT AITLIN MITCHELL AITLIN / KAVI GUPTA, CHICAGO. PHOTOGRAPHS BY C BY PHOTOGRAPHS CHICAGO. GUPTA, / KAVI LOS ANGELES / SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO, NEW YORK YORK NEW / SIKKEMA ANGELES JENKINS & CO, LOS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST / ROBERTS PROJECTS, PROJECTS, / ROBERTS ARTIST OF THE COURTESY

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OUT NOVEMBER 201 35 ILLUSTRATION BY MISS TIGER 36 STANDING WAR FOR EQUAL RIGHTS RAGES ON. ON. RAGES RIGHTS EQUAL FOR WAR STANDING ALONG- WHERE SERBIA, IN LIVING PEOPLE QUEER OF REALITY THE LAYS BARE BOOK NEW PHOTOGRAPHER sPolitical Is Personal SYMPOSIUM NOVEMBER 201 NOVEMBER OUT SLOBODAN RANDJELOVIĆ ’S hot-button topic. In the year of Serbia’s application of Serbia’s application year the hot-button topic.In a became rights LGBTQ Union, European the within world. the around broadcast were marchers of bloodied Images old regime. tothe commitments lingering with Nazis neo- and nationalists, extremists, right-wing from violence brutal with met was arrest, Milošević’s after days two just scheduled parade, at apride attempt first Belgrade’s proved premature: optimism their 2001, in But ideals. todemocratic commitment fresh nation’s on the tocapitalize were excited ’90s, of the part later the in anti-nationalist and anti-war vocally been had which organizations, LGBTQ Serbian genocide. Bosnian tothe relation in humanity against for crimes tried and Hague up toThe given Miloševi Slobodan president under government the 2000, In limbo. political in itself found of Serbia nation inland the 1990s, the By Coco Romack FOLLOWING THE TUMULT In the late 2000s, when Serbia was vying for a spot for aspot vying was Serbia when 2000s, late the In ć was ousted, its head head its ousted, ć was of the Balkan wars in in wars Balkan of the

Clockwise from top left: activists gather at Helena’s apartment; Sonja Sajzor; Aleksandar Selmić and Saša Masal; Sonja Sajzor; Dalibor Vujović and Srdjan Dimitrijević; Stefan Radojković for EU membership, the United States and Europe Belgrade, introduces us to Helena, a trans woman pressured the nation to guarantee a pride parade who sits upright in her hospital bed moments without brutality, but in 2009, it was still too soon. after her gender-confirmation surgery. We also Threats of violence spurred the government to meet Dalibor and Srdjan, a handsome gay couple cancel, and the parade’s main organizer, Majda of more than six years who muse about their fears Puaca, was forced to seek asylum in the United of violence on the streets. Another subject, Štefica, States. It wasn’t until September 2014 that a an up-and-coming drag queen, tells the familiar, pride parade would take place uninterrupted, yet triumphant tale of finding family in her although with heavy police protection. Today, community after being rejected by the family into Serbia remains staunchly conservative, with deep which she was born. influence from the Serbian Orthodox Church, and “I hope to show a glimpse into their lives,” although the sociopolitical landscape for LGBTQ Randjelović writes, “so that anyone who reads citizens is warming (in fact, Serbia’s first openly this can find empathy and understand that we are lesbian prime minister, Ana Brnabić, was elected all human, that we all hurt, and that we all love.” in 2017 ), the thaw isn’t felt in the daily lives of His photos show the ability of the camera to do so many queer Serbians. much more than document: It can explore the rich These are the folks captured in Lives in complexities of human relationships, pointing to Transition: LGBTQ Serbia, the product of an the universalities that connect us across cultures 18-month endeavor by Serbian-born and New and beyond borders. York-based photographer and architect Slobodan Randjelović. The artist, who returned to his Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia, by Slobodan homeland to document LGBTQ people living in Randjelović, now available from the New Press

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COURTESY OF MARY WASHINGTON / TWITTER 42 director Jonathan Demme’s Demme’s Jonathan director By Alexander Kacala Alexander By got more people topaygot attention.” more people it bymany, but at least Hollywood’ ‘too considered for. hoped It had may was HIV/AIDS community and LGBTQ the what wasn’t exactly film this if even of discussions, kinds have these to help them touchstone acultural needed and wanted people many crisis, AIDS the into adecade more than 1993, In it. surrounding issues the HIV/AIDS and about dialogue “It awider prompted themselves. reactions varied the in lies explains, Louie benefit, of HIV/AIDS.” main film’s The realities the and gay experience the it misrepresented who thought people and barriers, it broke down who believed people were (GMHC). “There Crisis Men’s Health Gay of the CEO of it,” Louie, sides Kelsey says on all sensation. polarizing ultimately for an stats trade-publication the mainly are those But AIDS. and HIV about conversation mainstream national It evolved the before: had picture motion major no other what accomplished film the prestige, profitand Through $200 million in worldwide box oice sales. more than earn of Philadelphia”—and “Streets Springsteen’s for Bruce Song Original Best and for Actor Tom Hanks Oscars—Best two on towin go it would film, alandmark as Hailed theaters. in three years after the indie indie the after years three film—released Hollywood major first the It was community. queer for the burden and blessing both Hollywood star, Hanks, playing gay. playing Hanks, star, Hollywood straight amajor tofeature blockbusters modern first one of the also it was And on gay people. Glances now-hallowed the after years seven and TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO AS IT NEARS IT NEARS IT AS LOOK BACK ON BYMARKED A SPECIAL WE HD RELEASE, THE ’90S. IN GAY HIV/AIDS LIFE OF AND DEPICTION BOTH FOR BASHED AND ITS PRAISED Discourse AStormof SYMPOSIUM Indeed, Indeed, people were there movie, controversial any “Like The film’s most vocal detractor was perhaps perhaps was detractor vocal most film’s The NOVEMBER 201 NOVEMBER —to deal with the impact of HIV and AIDS AIDS and of HIV impact the with —to deal Philadelphia S 2 PHILADELPHIA OUT 5TH ANNIVERSARY, ANNIVERSARY, 5TH was a totem that came to be tobe came that atotem was Longtime Companion Philadelphia this December, , A FILM AFILM Parting Parting debuted debuted

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COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT (PHILADELPHIA) and hugged me.’” More than two decades after Philadelphia first propelled a storm of HIV/ AIDS conversations, Nyswaner and the rest of us now live in a world in which PrEP is available to some and AIDS is no longer a death sentence But why, in a movie about a gay man dying of Antonio Banderas for many. It’s a new era—with a new narrative and and TomHanks AIDS, was that man not seen sharing a kiss or lying in a scene from a new cast of characters. “The demographics of in bed with his partner? In regard to a deleted Philadelphia the AIDS epidemic are diferent today than they scene that showed Hanks and his boyfriend (played were in 1993,” Louie acknowledges. “Today, AIDS by Antonio Banderas) being afectionate in bed, is everywhere and is owned by everyone. Back Nyswaner explains that Demme told him the scene then, it was largely still a disease among white gay “stopped the story.” men in urban areas. Or at least that’s how it was He continues, “There may have been hesitation perceived. Now, for example, across the country, on our part to push the mainstream too far, but black and Latino men who have sex with other men that’s only because we can’t tell fortunes. But we are disproportionately impacted by HIV.” did know that we didn’t want to make something In the age of PrEP, what would a contemporary only people in New York City and Los Angeles take on Philadelphia look like? Perhaps one that would go see. We wanted to make a successful, recognizes prejudice as a lingering shadow. “If I mainstream movie, and we did.” could produce a film about HIV/AIDS for today’s As for Philadelphia’s critics (like Kramer), audiences, I would produce one that spoke to the Nyswaner seems resolved to tip his hat and keep fact that homophobia, stigma, and discrimination on walking. “Larry Kramer is an icon who changed are still alive and well in the United States,” the world and God bless him,” he says, “but what Louie says. “I’d also show that a lack of access he thinks about my movie is of no interest to me.” to prevention and treatment is still crippling And Kramer, however revered and experienced, is for many populations afected, particularly gay only one person with an opinion. black males in the South and people in the trans “A few years after the film came out,” Nyswaner community. And I would show that there is hope, says, “a 19-year-old straight girl came up to me and there is help to be had, but that hope and help and said, ‘I am HIV positive, and I was tortured take resources, understanding, and grace. That’s a about how to tell my family. And one night they movie I’d like to see.” happened to rent your movie. We sat and watched it together, and at the end, I just stood up and told The 25th anniversary release of Philadelphia on 4K them, I have what he has. And they all gathered Ultra HD is available November 27.

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WHAT’S LEFT TO SAY about Andy Warhol? Re-Gaying That was the question first posed to one of the curators behind “From A to B and Back Again,” the Whitney’s sprawling retrospective on the Andy Warhol patron saint of pop art, opening November 12. The first Warhol retrospective organized in the United States since the ’80s, the show illuminates the A MASSIVE NEW RETROSPECTIVE AT NEW YORK’S breadth, depth, and diversity of Warhol’s oeuvre, WHITNEY MUSEUM SEEKS TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF A looking at the full trajectory of the artist’s work, SCHOLARLY TRADITION TO STRAIGHT-WASH AN ICON. from his 1949 arrival in New York to his death By Alexander Kacala in 1987. It presents his art as a rich continuum,

44 NOVEMBER 201 OUT COURTESY OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO / © THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY, NEW YORK (SELF-PORTRAIT, MAO). COURTESY OF TATE, LONDON / © THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY, NEW YORK (MARILYN DIPTYCH). COURTESY OF THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM / © 2018 THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PA, A MUSEUM OF CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (EDIE SEDGWICK, MY HUSTLER) Mao 1965; ST309 Edie Sedgwick Marilyn Diptych Self-Portrait Clockwise from far left: , 1972 My Hustler , 1964; , 1962; , 1965; , OUT decidedly femme.” and freely flaunted was both gayness whose of aman recounting the move odd for a footnote—an to queerness his reduced Warhol valorize to wanted historians who “Many art NOVEMBER 201 NOVEMBER 45 SYMPOSIUM TS, INC. / ARTISTS ARTISTS / INC. TS, THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL AR VISUAL THE FOR FOUNDATION WARHOL ANDY THE NEW YORK / © 201 YORK NEW RIGHTS RESERVED (EMPIRE) F CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. ALL ALL CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. F VED (ARI AND MARIO). COURTESY OF WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, AMERICAN ART, MUSEUM OF WHITNEY OF VEDAND COURTESY (ARI MARIO). ofering a complex portrait that goes far beyond pulled from an ARTnews interview Warhol “Homosexuality pedestrian notions of soup cans. gavein1963tothen-youngartcriticGeneR. “There are a million things left to say,” says Swenson, as part of a series titled “What Is Pop was still illegal Claire K. Henry, assistant curator of the museum’s Art?AnswersFrom8Painters.”Unearthedby in the ‘60s, and extensive Andy Warhol Film Project. “And we’re historian Jennifer Sichel, the recording revealed the Factory continually uncovering more information. Warhol that Warhol and Swenson’s conversation started RIGHTS RESERALL GIE INSTITUTE. was a collector of all kinds of things: cookie jars, of by covering homosexuality and Warhol’s provided a Fiestaware—objects that had to be auctioned of thoughts on queerness, which never made it into refuge for queer after he passed away. I also view him as a collector print. “I practically fell of my chair when I read of people and an amasser of information.” the whole transcript,” Henry says. “The Swenson people seeking Warhol’s hoarded bounty is on full display in interviewthatwaspublishedisatruncatedand sanctuary from MUSEUM O A MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PA, WARHOL ANDY THE this show, which, with more than 350 pieces, is ade-gayedversionoftheconversation.Itwas CARNE MUSEUM OF A GH, PA, also the largest monographic exhibition to date straight-washed.” heteronormative © 2018 at the Whitney’s current location. His infamous ThelegacyofWarholhaslongbeensubjected

culture.” COLA). self-portrait from 1964, his colorful 1972 rendering tostraight-washing.Take,forexample,Heiner of Mao, and his personal take on the Rorschach Bastian’s traveling exhibition from the 2000s, from 1984 are all accounted for, many assembled whichbeganattheNeueNationalgaleriein together for the first time. They’re joined by Berlin,thenwenttotheTateModerninLondon, Warhol’s litany of Polaroids from the ’70s, his films, andlandedatLosAngeles’sMOCA.“Itlionized and the thousands of audiotapes he recorded. Warhol as this sort of über-Catholic and THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBUR WARHOL ANDY THE Henry notes another bit of audio that recently moralisticarbiterof’60scounterculture,”Henry RIGHTS SOCIETY, NEW YORK (COCA- YORK NEW RIGHTS SOCIETY, surfaced and piqued scholars’ interest. It was says.“Catholicismdoesplaydeeplyintohis © 2018

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work, but the exhibition had no mention—or very aging John battles his straight female neighbor on the little—of queerness.” shores of Fire Island for the afections of a young stud “From A to B and Back Again” explores the hired for the weekend. complex facets of Warhol’s gay and religious All of this wide-ranging material pushes back on the

ARTS, INC. / ARTISTS RIGHTS / INC. ARTS, identities, as well as the intersections of the fact that many art historians who wanted to valorize

GIE INSTITUTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERALL GIE INSTITUTE. disparate media in which he worked. There’s also Warhol reduced his queerness to a footnote—an odd a three-film series called “Queer Performativity,” move for the recounting of a man whose gayness which nods to the wildness of Warhol’s Factory. “A was both freely flaunted and decidedly femme. The huge thing to underscore is the Factory as a space last time a Warhol exhibition of this magnitude was where people could perform gayness,” Henry says. mounted in the United States was at MoMA in 1989,

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OUT NOVEMBER 201 47 TEN PLACES TO GO IN 201

FROM EMERGING ARTS SCENES AND UNLIKELY BEACHES TO MUST-TRY FOODIE SPOTS, THESE ARE THE DESTINATIONS INSPIRING US TO BOOK OUR NEXT PLANE TICKET.

BY BRANDON PRESSER PHOTOGRAPH BY BERNARD BOSC BY PHOTOGRAPH Æ 10. French Guiana A spate of new flight connections has opened up unlikely weekend destinations such as Cartagena and Panama City. Is French Guiana next? Norwegian Air has added flights from the U.S. to Cayenne, the capital.

9. Beirut, Lebanon Whether it is in staunch defiance of Trump’s Islamophobia, or simply the continuation of global progressiveness, the Arab world continues to garner our travel interest. Last year’s advent of the Jordan Trail—a 40-day hiking path—brought adventure seekers to Petra and beyond. Now, Beirut is poised to capture urbanites as the fresh alternative to Tel Aviv, with lively queer nightlife and beach scenes. According to American Express Travel, Lebanon’s capital has seen a 150 percent spike in bookings.

8. Georgia First things first: We’re talking about the country, not the home of the Braves. Georgia is a nation with surprisingly diverse geography considering its diminutive stature huddled up against the towering peaks of the Caucasus. It is believed that wine was first produced here, and a proud tradition of vintners remains to this day. Food is hallowed, too, with generational recipes that accentuate the bounty of the land. No “farm to table” jargon here, just honest eats.

7. The Big Island, Hawaii Imagine all the beauty and splendor of the Aloha State but without the bumper-to-bumper tourist traic. Right now—following the much-publicized eruption of its resident volcano—Hawaii’s Big Island has climbed into a time machine and transported itself back 30 years to a moment when only the savviest of surfers could be found roaming the land. Surely, visitor numbers will swell again soon, especially once everyone realizes that most of the lunar landscapes have remained delightfully unscathed. Until then, take your pick from any of the empty black sand beaches. 6. Michigan We’re keen on checking out America’s other coast, a land with miles of uninterrupted lakeside beaches and remote recesses of national park, like Isle Royale, a collection of hard-to-reach islands fronting the pine- studded shoreline of the Canadian border. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Detroit is having a second coming of creativity following the auto industry’s collapse, with the creation of new hangout spaces. Luxury OF COURTESY (DAKAR). STOCK PARTY OF THIRD COURTESY brand Shinola just launched its first hotel in the metropolis, and furniture and home décor behemoth West Elm is almost ready to swing open of its own accommodation ofering.

5. Dakar, Senegal Often fetishized by travelers for its safari opps, the African continent is poised to deliver so much more, and with the long-anticipated completion of Dakar’s new international airport—10 years in the making—a new cultural

beacon can finally show of its megawatt FALLS). (BOND OF PURE MICHIGAN COURTESY N (TBILISI). TOURIST BOARD (BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS) VIRGIN (BRITISH BOARD TOURIST output to a bevy of expected travelers. The French-speaking capital has resonated in the Tbilisi, Georgia world music scene—think Amadou and Mariam—but it’s Dakar’s fashion Bond Falls, Michigan ADMINISTRATIO and photography that are currently turning heads. Flight times are (BERLIN). COURTESY OF BVI OF BVI COURTESY (BERLIN). surprisingly short from both Europe and North America, making Senegal TOURISM NATIONAL a manageable choice for tourists with a time cap wanting a mix of heady city magic and compelling nature, like the Pepto-colored waters of Lac Rose. COURTESY OF THE GEORGIAN GEORGIAN OF THE COURTESY 4. British Virgin Islands / UNSPLASH BJORN-GROCHLA BY APH Maybe it’s unfair that we’re keen on the BVIs, since almost all of the Caribbean could use a heartfelt endorsement after the widespread devastation of last year’s hurricanes. The rebuilding eforts throughout the region have been monumental, and many destinations are ready to welcome eager sunbathers. We SY OF THE GRAND FACTORY (BEIRUT). PHOTOGR (BEIRUT). FACTORY GRAND OF THE SY have our sights set on Tortola, Virgin Dakar, Senegal Gorda, and their smaller, scrubbier neighbors because they’re the ideal destinations for DIY holidaymakers. But forget about Airbnb-ing a private condo or villa; go one better and rent your own sailboat. Ship charters like The Moorings ofer a variety of build-your-own- boat options: You can lease a vessel outright for a week of autonomous cruising, or hire a captain and chef and just sit back and let the PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL ZIZKA / COURTESY OF THE ISLAND OF HAWAII VISITORS BUREAU (HAWAII). BUREAU VISITORS OF HAWAII ISLAND OF THE / COURTESY ZIZKA PAUL BY PHOTOGRAPH wind take you. COURTE PARK). BAYOU (BUFFALO HOUSTON VISIT

50 NOVEMBER 201 OUT 2. Texas Capital city Austin is the Lone Star’s poster child for “blue dot/red state,” earning the lion’s share of hipster traic in the entirety of the American South. This is anchored by the “Keep Austin Weird” slogan, the pronounced live music scene, the college-town vibe, and the SXSW arts-festival-cum-conference. And, yes, the city makes good on its Bufalo Bayou Park, Houston alt, small-batch coolness, with not just one token neighborhood but a 3. Germany checkerboard of decidedly uncorporate We love a good excuse to throw a party, and Germany has two—the 30th streets and blocks. Texas’s other major anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the centenary of the Bauhaus— hubs, however, have long been more both synonymous with a strong, progressive spirit. The Bauhaus opened after than longhorns. Even lesbian hotelier the First World War as an interdisciplinary art school, and although it lasted Liz Lambert is branching out from her for just a little over a decade, its radical vision of design and architecture had Austin roots, opening accommodations a ripple efect around the globe. An array of exhibitions have been created in in San Antonio, Marfa, and beyond. honor of the anniversary. Check out Bauhaus100.de for inspirational tourist Houston—which is poised to trails of the movement’s living monuments, which cross the entire country celebrate the 50th anniversary of the from Hamburg to Stuttgart. Of course, there are plenty of stark, modernist moon landing—has the largest creative structures in Berlin as well—it’s a city so celebrated for fostering a good time community in the entire state. There’s that even nightclubs can get tax rebates for worthy cultural output. the Washington Avenue Arts District, and the Montrose area, which is a great The Grand Factory, Beirut entry point for newcomers with its protracted indie history (during the ’80s, it was a hub of LGBTQ activity). Dallas’s dining scene is unexpectedly diverse and multiplying by the minute, and San Antonio (fresh of the 300th anniversary of its founding) recently registered the region’s sharpest population growth among college-educated Millennials seeking a more afordable lifestyle in the home of the Alamo.

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Spreebogenpark, Berlin 1. Shikoku, Japan The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is already a fixture of the international news cycle, but we’re keen to visit the Land of the Rising Sun in 2019 instead, for an exhibition so large—think the Olympics of Art—that it spans more than a dozen islands scattered throughout Japan’s Inland Sea. Born from a fervent desire to reimagine a region that was once a repository for biohazardous waste (don’t worry, it’s all been safely removed following a class action suit filed against the government), the Setouchi Triennale has now become an international byword for immersive, large-scale oeuvres spanning a variety of media and platforms. Objects showcased from past exhibitions— like Yayoi Kusama’s polka-dotted pumpkin on Naoshima—have become enduring monuments, making the region a must-see for art enthusiasts year-round. Our pick is the quieter Teshima, where there’s a fraction of the crowds and a handful of permanent pieces, including Storm House, a wooden abode through which a rapturous cyclone blows,andtheTeshimaArtMuseum,a IDGE MUSEUM) strange, singular experience inside what appears to be the collapsed concrete hull of an alien spacecraft. Lodging is limited among the constellation of art-infused islets, but tiny Ogijima has an immersive ofering at Dorima no Ue (or Dreamer no Ue), where Myoko, the owner, provides her homestay guests with dishes made from her backyard’s bounty. She’ll teach you how to prepare a meal—even daintily fry tempura—and will take you up the mountain to pick wild blueberries or (WOODEN BR ASSOCIATES & KENGO KUMA OF COURTESY down to the pier to snorkel for fresh uni. For something more upmarket, InsideJapan Tours charters private yachts and seaplanes to link exhibitions. The islands of the Inland Sea collectively / COURTESY OF BENESSE ART SITE NAOSHIMA (TESHIMA). (TESHIMA). SITE NAOSHIMA ART BENESSE OF COURTESY / PHOTOGRAPH BY KEN’ICHI SUZUKI BY PHOTOGRAPH

52 NOVEMBER 201 OUT belong to Kagawa prefecture on Shikoku, Japan’s fourth-largest island, and are easily accessed from its largest city, Takamatsu. Known mostly for its endless farming pastures and rice paddies, the island has long garnered Clockwise from bottom left: Teshima a faithful influx of domestic tourists who Art Museum; Kuribayashi Park, journey to visit the 88 elaborate temples Takamatsu; Yushuhara Wooden Bridge Museum; 20th Century Recall by Funjo that ring its shores in what has become the Hagetaka, Setouchi Triennale longest formalized pilgrimage in the country. Some tackle a few shrines at a time; others take weeks—if not months—to solemnly perform the circuit. The town of Yusuhara, in Kōchi prefecture, on Shikoku’s south-facing coast, is a new art and architectural hotspot, following the meteoric ascendance of Kengo Kuma in the global collective consciousness. The celebrated architect opened his firm in the 1990s and has recently become a household name since winning the bid to create much of the infrastructure for the Olympics. Yusuhara is home to a handful of public and private structures, all embodying Kuma’s calling card: building with natural materials. The newest of the lot—a mixed-use structure with a strong socialist bent— features a retirement center and a public library behind a wooden-slatted facade.

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INCHING TO STARDOM

Inside the phenomenon of OnlyFans, Just For Fans, and other subscription social media services that are cashing in on the thirst for immediate, amateur gay porn.

s late as the summer of 2017, Macho was working a customer-service job at the Philadelphia branch of PECO, an electric and natural gas utility company in Pennsylvania. The 9-to-5 was Macho’s shot at the American A dream, but waking up every day to stare at a computer screen and field phone calls wasn’t for him. Since then, the 23-year-old’s online popularity—which he grew on Instagram, expanded on Twitter (as @jesus_really_), and finally monetized via the website OnlyFans—has shifted his life to one of self-employment, in which he uploads content, mostly explicit in nature, to paying subscribers. “Basically with Instagram, I was reinventing myself,” Macho says over pizza in his hometown of Philly. “At first, it was just videos of me talking shit and being stupid. But then I started to show of my body, sort of like the vixens that you see on TV, or the girls in music videos with fake butts or fake boobs, who are confident and don’t care what anybody says. It made me happy to be the gay version of that.” Macho’s early postings built up a following and a fandom. (His first Instagram account racked up 14,000 followers before it was suspended, and it drew 40,000 when it resurfaced before a final deletion.) But when he began to post photos of his ass, followers started to DM him asking for nudes and wanting to trade videos. This went further when he joined the less-filtered Twitter, where he was able to really understand the size of his audience. “I never started this intending to show my penis or my bulge or anything like that,” he says, “but as I started to become more comfortable with my body and my ass, and realized nothing [bad happened when I showed them], I stopped worrying about it.” In September 2017, the budding entrepreneur uploaded a photo of himself “inching,” as he calls it. In the image, Macho (who stands at 5-foot-2 and is of Puerto Rican descent) shows the base and first few inches of his penis above the waistband of

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a pair of dark gray sweatpants. charge for content. It became Since it was posted, the tweet an ideal tool for people like has accumulated well over 3.5 fitness experts and independent million impressions and 17,000 musicians with avid supporters likes. “That’s when I realized this of all kinds. Some began calling was something I really could do, it “Twitter that you pay for.” because people are obviously And, much like Twitter, a subset looking,” he says. of these users was pushing an That “something” sees the increasing amount of amateur popular-boy-about-social- gay porn and other erotic media posting a series of nude material. photos and explicit videos—both “There are really two main solo and with other Grindr- ways I’ve seen it used well,” connected guys who can host—to says Ty Mitchell, a studio porn his OnlyFans account, where performer who has worked with he currently charges more than the likes of Lucas Entertainment 100 subscribers $25 a month and Treasure Island Media but for access. The follower count now has both OnlyFans and Just can fluctuate (when he started, For Fans accounts. “It’s either Macho’s OnlyFans viewer fee of $7.99 brought in more than porn performers who are using it as a way of maintaining 500 followers, but the $25 price tag garners up to 300 ), their careers and making an additional income, or thirst-trap and he’s had to outmaneuver others who pirate and sell his guys who don’t have experience doing porn but see a high videos. But since February, OnlyFans has provided him with demand for their nude image and have figured out how to enough financial support to serve as a legitimate full-time job. satisfy that in a way that makes them extra coin.” And along with it have come other opportunities and ofers, Macho falls into the latter category. “I started getting thirsty such as flying to Orlando to film for Raging Stallion and DMs,” he says. “I still get them, even though I have OnlyFans— releasing merchandise. people in my DMs [on other platforms] asking for something Macho’s story is one of many that have emerged from a personal. It’s annoying, but I decided, Oh, if you want to cottage industry of sites that have essentially brought the see this, you can pay.” Others, like Jamari, a dancer who influencer-culture phenomenon to adult entertainment. has worked with Sam Smith and Keke Palmer, have started Former studio performers, amateur adult models, and social accounts, but instead of creating porn, they’ve kept things PG. media influencers are now using sites like OnlyFans, many Jamari’s account includes suggestive photos as well as content making thousands of dollars a month for content. This depicting his work as a go-go dancer. genre of fan sites is not only an example of a shift in But big business is also being made by porn performers, consumer tastes, it also represents a new model when it both amateur and studio, who have begun to use these comes to porn. websites much the way that escorting work was used in the “There’s definitely been a trend over the last eight years past—to supplement infrequent and low-paying jobs. After of consumers liking more amateur movies,” says Dominic launching his own OnlyFans account in October 2017, Ford Ford, both the owner of his eponymous film studio for gay started Just For Fans on Valentine’s Day. This new site aimed pornography (which even he describes as “pretty vanilla”) to address performers’ mounting concerns with OnlyFans, and the founder of OnlyFans competitor site Just For Fans. He like overusage, which frequently causes server problems adds, “I’ve seen the steady decline of studio porn, just having and slow load times; the lack of a public company face held been in it for a decade. Things seem to have stagnated while accountable for issues like delayed payments; and a gray area amateur porn really has taken of.” about when to cut explicit material. It also provided new, additional features, some of which had only been previously ONLYFANS LAUNCHED in 2016 as another site for multiple accessible by signing up with multiple services. influencers to monetize their followings. It mimicked “OnlyFans was Twitter that you paid for. ManyVids and celebrities who had tried similar ventures (like the Jenner- Clips4Sale were pay-per-view content services, and a website Kardashian clan, who’ve launched their own apps and sites), called SextPanther allowed models to text for money,” Ford but this new platform allowed for anyone with a phone to says. “Plus, there’s eBay, where people could sell actual

56 NOVEMBER 201 OUT *DUSTY ST. AMAND (MACHO). @JUSTSAMMORRIS / COURTESY OF TY MITCHELL / INSTAGRAM. COURTESY OF THE SUBJECTS (REMAINING) about it.” body, stopped I worrying comfortable with my started tobecome more anything like I as but that, penis or my bulge or intending toshow my “I never started this Grii Clockwise from left: top Rocco Steele, Ty Mitchell, n Barrows,n Diggory, Jamari OUT NOVEMBER 2018 57 “It’s unbelievably more than I used to make doing studio work. It’s product and autographs. As the student’s...substantial orgasm. “There’s this really high the type of thing opposed to having models and volume. My surprise there is genuine,” Barrows says. “You that feels like performers subscribe to all of don’t really get genuine surprise in studio porn, and once these diferent sites, I wanted I posted that clip, it just went crazy.” The footage attracted it’s all going to to create a house where all the more than 500,000 notes on Tumblr before it got removed, come crashing rooms could live under the and to date, it has more than 3.9 million views on Twitter. same roof.” And that house— That video has become emblematic of the most successful down because that home base—is Just For accounts on these fan sites, which essentially bring better Fans, which in six months has lighting to content that viewers feel is organic, authentic, and it’s too good to amassed more than 130,000 even somewhat personal, since they follow the performers. be true.” subscribers, brought in more This genre has institutionalized homemade amateur porn than 2,000 models, and paid in a way that ties it directly to the cult of personality. The some of its top performers upwards of $70,000. efect democratizes the porn industry, meaning that any and “It’s unbelievably more than I used to make doing studio all genres can be explored. RopeTrainKeep, an account that work,” says Rocco Steele, a heavily awarded porn performer focuses on bondage, is one of the top performers on Just who has operated RoccoSteeleStudio.com and For Fans. And, according to Ford, other fetishes that were My10Inches.com since his 2014 industry debut. “It’s the type thought to be niche, like fisting and masked performers, also of thing that feels like it’s all going to come crashing down do well. Additionally, this new model provides performers because it’s too good to be true.” with consistent compensation in an industry sufering from According to Ford, of the roughly 2,000 performers on Just exploitative practices and falling rates. For Fans, more than 1,500 are cisgender men making content But with this new autonomy—in which each actor is for other men. On average, they boast 100 to 300 followers allowed to choose when, how, and with whom he will and charge each of them approximately $9.99 a month, with perform—comes an ongoing demand for content. “When I Ford taking 30 percent of their earnings. This means that the started, I was immediately hit with a lot of anxiety about average performer is banking anywhere from $700 to $2,100 posting good videos that would make my profile competitive a month for uploading content, which can span anywhere with other people,” says Mitchell, who posts about four times from under a minute to more than an hour in length. And a month, with an emphasis on duo scenes. “That’s kind of the lion’s share of the work can be done via smartphone, a con about participating in this,” he says. “On one hand, which means it’s an international business. I’m in competition with porn performers who are really Popular go-go boy and ginger-haired pinup model Seth established in the industry and have a lot more access to Fornea made his X-rated debut on OnlyFans in January, and other performers. And on the other hand, I’m in competition says that the autonomy it provided, in part, allowed him with guys who can just post a nude, and because their naked to relocate from New York to Brazil. Diggory, a performer body isn’t as available online, that’s enough satisfaction for in London who was doing amateur porn-cam work prior their fans.” to joining both OnlyFans and Just For Fans this year, says Many of the performers interviewed for this story try to that his city has a community, of sorts, where performers upload anywhere from two to four times a week, and most network with one another to find scene partners. And while include at least one penetrative clip. Some, like Diggory, use their average profit is certainly more than pocket money their local network of fan-site performers, while others, like (there is little to no overhead), the perfect viral moment can Steele, travel frequently to meet up with studio performers shoot the right creator into much higher earnings. in other places. Almost all also perform with non-studio “It’s really a viable way to figure out your own niche and performers. And while too much editing can be a turnof to play to your own strengths,” says Griin Barrows, who has fans (many of the more successful streams are low on editing been a studio performer, on and of, since 2014, starting to maintain a homemade feeling), the need to create content, with ChaosMen before moving on to Men.com and Next edit it, and constantly promote it has many people feeling Door Studios. He’s now one of the top three performers on that this new genre won’t replace studio porn. Just For Fans, thanks in part to a November 2017 upload that “[Self-promotion] is a big part of it,” Barrows says. went viral. The footage, originally available in full exclusively “Someone who is willing to hustle a bit more. A lot of guys on OnlyFans and in clips on Twitter and Tumblr, showed don’t want to do all this work. They want to show up, film, him giving a faceless partner a hand job for 40 minutes. and get paid.” But for those who are willing to put in the Barrows describes his scene mate as a “young, closeted time, the payof can be as limitless as the number of people college student,” and says the clip became famous because of who click “Subscribe.”

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GREAT SONGWRITER, imagined in the lyrics, but imagination was the key. “I’m one of the world’s most AND DIDN’T CARE definitely pop music’s greatest scammer,” she says with a visible trans figures— laugh. but being an outsider “I’m really into the fantasy,” adds the 26-year-old, who only made Petras more ABOUT BEING grew up idolizing pop stars with outrageous stage personas, driven. “In school, I from Boy George to Gwen Stefani. Petras’s first single was very antisocial and landed at a time when pop was still having its stripped-back very unpopular,” she POPULAR, BECAUSE I moment (in the middle of Gaga’s Joanne era), and she was says. “People didn’t eager to bring back a little Top 40 irreverence. “Everybody is understand me and so cool right now,” she says. “Nobody’s singing high songs, thought I was freaky. I NEVER WAS.” everybody’s whispering—it’s just a lot of really mellow pop. always felt a little like a There’s a minimalist thing that’s happening right now.” freak. And so I just went Petras, however, is a maximalist. “What I want to do is just home and focused on becoming really good at something. I the fantasy—it’s so cool to have fun and be flamboyant and watched pop music videos all day and was like, OK, I’m going dance and sing really loud at the top of your lungs. I just to become a great songwriter, and didn’t care so much about think that’s the shit.” going to parties or being popular, because I never was.” The fantasy struck a chord, and the song went viral. After But now her music and the queer fans who know what years of trying to break into an industry still attempting to it’s like to be an outsider have turned her into a pop star. navigate in the age of streaming, Petras used the momentum Gay approval can make or break a new diva—as Samantha of her first hit and kept them coming. She partnered with Jones said on Sex and the City: “First come the gays, then Spotify and released single after single, all without the the girls, then...the industry.” Petras not only has the bops, support of a major label. she’s actually part of the community best positioned to make But a hot single making the club rounds was one thing; her a hit. That doesn’t mean, however, that she’s interested a career was another. “With a hundred songs coming out in being a trans pop star, or even a queer one. “As a human, every New Music Friday, how do you break out?” Petras it’s annoying that you have to have a label,” says Petras. “You wonders aloud. “It’s been a thing of figuring it out and trying know, you’re a ‘gay actor’ or you’re a ‘trans artist.’ I want new things the best way possible to get as much exposure people to talk about my music and not my gender identity as possible. And at the same time, put out as much music as because, to me, that’s what I’m proud of. I’m transgender, possible. That’s always my goal.” but it’s just a strong footnote, you know? Yes, that’s who I Petras wanted her prolific output to help fans get to know am, but at the same time, what I’m proud of and what I want her. Those fans are largely queer, which makes sense: Petras’s to be seen for is my music and my art and what I’ve worked songs are like gay catnip, irresistibly catchy bops about really hard on achieving.” heartbreak and getting wasted. They do what pop songs do In September, during the press tour for her film best: take something as universal as a crush or a wild night Assassination Nation, actress and model Hari Nef challenged out and turn it into the most perfectly transcendent dance- journalists to stop qualifying her by her transness. “Would floor moment, with the help of a few synths, a relentless you introduce Viola Davis as a black actress?” she asked. beat, and a guitar rif. In a year like 2018, when every week “Would you introduce Kristen Stewart as a gay actress? our phones buzz with some new political horror, Petras’s Would you introduce Millicent Simmonds as a deaf actress? escapist pop is a blessing for queer people, and it doesn’t hurt No? OK, cool—so please stop introducing me as a trans that she is one of the girls. actress.” In a world reckoning with transgender visibility, Petras gained national attention as a teenager when, at artists like Nef and Petras are demanding to be acknowledged 16, she became the youngest person to ever receive gender- for their work rather than their identity, but that’s not so confirmation surgery. She spent her adolescence as an easy in the era of identity politics, when the personal and the advocate, making documentaries in Europe that aimed to political are more entwined than ever. help other transgender kids. Though she had access to the Kim Petras doesn’t seem all that interested in being medical necessities of transition, it wasn’t easy growing up as political, something non-binary, trans writer KC Clements

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examined in their Pitchfork article, “What Does It Mean to Be an Apolitical Trans Pop Star?” Clements believes that Petras has “actively eschewed getting involved in politics, particularly around trans issues.” It’s a position that’s somewhat jarring as more underground trans artists (many with less privilege than Petras) are leaning into political activism, using their platforms to promote social causes. “We have this person who could potentially be at least somewhat of a political figure, and instead she’s distanced herself from that,” Clements said in an interview. But the critique of Petras is balanced with a heartfelt love for her music. “I’m rooting for her,” Clements says. “She makes infectious music in a pop landscape that’s disappointing us at every turn,” said another fan—we’ll call him Steve. “The pop stars we like who are political aren’t really impressing us very much with the actual product.” Part of Petras’s reluctance to make her transness the center of her public persona is the fact that she transitioned so long ago, before the advent of trans visibility. “It’s a very important part of my life, but at the same time, it’s so normal to me,” she says. “My whole life, I’ve just been me, and sometimes I get annoyed when people know me as only that. It’s frustrating sometimes.” Several labels interested in signing her early in her career wanted to lead with her transness. “I never wanted to do that,” says Petras. “I always wanted to lead with the music.” “I would be exhausted too if I had spent my whole life being visible as a trans person,” says Clements, “and feeling like you constantly have to be an advocate—that the sole focus is on your identity. As trans folks, it’s so rare that we get to just be joyful and fun and sexy and fall in love and do drugs. There’s something I really love about that in her music and her persona.” There’s another part of Petras’s story she’d rather not have overshadow her music, and that’s her working relationship with Dr. Luke, the prolific pop producer who was accused of sexual abuse by Kesha in 2014. The messy legal battle continues to this day, and Petras has been adamant that the conflict has nothing to do with her. When Petras’s spot on Troye Sivan’s Bloom tour was announced, the singer responded to criticism from Sivan’s fans, saying her positive experience with Dr. Luke “does not negate or dismiss the experience of others or suggest that multiple perspectives cannot exist at once.” But Petras’s fans don’t want a canned PR statement, they want the real, honest tea. “The tea is I respect both of them a lot,” Petras says of Luke and Kesha, after a bit of nudging. “I think they’re very, very talented. It’s an ongoing legal case, and I just literally don’t have anything to do with it. It really doesn’t involve me. I want it to be between the two of them. That’s kind of

64 NOVEMBER 201 OUT OUT NOVEMBER 201 65 66 “Heart to Break,” arguably her best single—a throbbing, upstairs, singing cappella playing a and then-unreleased the her song “Hillside Boys.” Williamsburg crowd, who knew every word bridge the of to Petras Instagram gushed on how was obsessed she the with set at aparty, and days later they booked apop-up show. Petras’s team and floated the possibility ofdoing ashort want to dance to...it feels important,” says Clements. least one trans pop star who ismaking total bangers that I broken—after all, that makes for the best bops. “To have at to make mistakes, to break hearts, and to have their hearts aren’t really meant to beperfect. We want them to bemessy, stories. Petras may perfect not a star, pop be but stars pop finally embracing trans artists and letting them tell their own star, her rise isapowerful symbol in an industry that is community.” our of part a bit of credibility we wouldn’t give somebody who wasn’t pretty,” he says. “So it’s cool that she’s open about it. It lends trans identity more, lot a white is and because passes she and itself.and of “She’s somebody who could downplaying be her issues.”those audience wide to a have responsibility some to engage with extent,some more with us privilege of those access with and “It doesn’t need to becentral to her career or identity, but, to other collaborations and take active an role trans in politics. Clements, who hopes that Petras will eventually move on to to say, and ‘That trans; is that person person’s like me,” says Petras.Kim social justice warriors, but even social justice warriors stan debut album was scheduled for release. Justice swift is among multiple sexual assault allegations emerged days before their referring to the queer punk duo whose career collapsed after then somebody like PWR BTTM gets canceled.” Clements is heterosexual who are constantly getting away with shit, and “We’ve got problematic these all faves that are cisgender and people are on other queer and trans people,” says Clements. to this awakening about how much harder queer and trans in acommunity that rigorously polices its own. “I’ve come pop culture’sof nastiest sexual assault cases? worth being inextricably linked to the man implicated one in just helps polish it, texture it.” But isabit of industry polish polishes it up,” she says. “He changes the melody slightly— involved in producing her songs. “He kind of comes in and him in the first place? By her admission, he’s only marginally him, raising question, the Why start she did working with Dr. Luke abuse of years before Petras started working with to, even the ones selling fantasy their in music. Kesha accused up look they figures public want the transparency from more speak openly about sexual assault in the wake of #MeToo, queer audience, who are watching women come forward and them both and...whatever will happen will happen.” it. It’s pending a litigation, can’t I so speak about it. respect I Afterward, Tomasiello joined she few a and drag queens January,In Brooklyn DJ Paul Tomasiello got touch in with Whether or not Petras isinterested in being aqueer pop Steve thinks that Petras’s in case, visibility powerful is in “This isone of the first pop stars we’ve been able to look The singer’s fans willing seem to cut her some slack, even But Petras doesn’t to seem grasp that her socially conscious

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OUT share space with the reality in which she and the rest of us us rest of the and she which reality in the with space share vacuum, and the fantasy world Petras is building needs to can’t stop at making great pop music. Art doesn’t exist in a party. She’s just...one of us.” “She had this great energy. She’s really sweet, and she loves to everybody so easily, and everyone loved her,” said the DJ. the DJ booth for the rest of the night. “She blended in with girls, Petras rejoined party the downstairs, dancing behind all the boys you synth-heavy, ’80s-style banger with arelentless beat about But it seems thatBut seems Petras it if us, that of one relationship is know are bad for you. After aki with the

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OF A POLITICAL FIGURE, live. We need her to be transparent and accountable, because the truth is, we need Kim Petras. We need her irresistible AND INSTEAD SHE’S escapist pop to help us forget that the world is falling to shit around our ears. We need her as proof that queer people have value in the music industry. We need her to show young trans DISTANCED HERSELF women that they can be joyful and powerful and sexy and secure the bag. But Kim Petras needs us too, because she’s one of the girls, and what are sisters if not the people who FROM THAT...BUT I’M hold you up, who read you when you need to be read, and who’ll join you on the floor when that song is so good you ROOTING FOR HER.” can’t possibly not dance to it.

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ICKEY THOMPSON is probably sliding into your DMs. If you happen to know any of the viral celeb’s 1.5 million Instagram followers, chances are they’ve hit up your inbox with one of his hilarious videos, which see the bendy 22-year-old doing R everything from twerking at a McDonald’s bag to practicing pickup lines with a house plant. His bio says he’s “just here to make you laugh,” and Thompson has done that and then some, yielding him faithful fans across multiple platforms, like the dearly departed Vine, where his antics first took of in 2013. But Thompson wasn’t always flaunting his flamboyant voice. In fact, it took him a while to find it. “When I was younger, I was the shyest kid ever,” he says. His past is probably part of the reason he was shocked when the Vines he posted in high school sparked such a swift audience response. “All of a sudden, I started getting a lot of attention for my videos,” he says, noting that as a Christian from North Carolina, with seemingly impossible dreams of breaking into showbiz, he enjoyed a plot twist fit for a teen movie. “I was an underdog kid, and then, in my senior year of high school, I was the most popular thing,” he says.

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Galvanized by this popularity, Thompson focused on making his dreams possible, setting his sights on Los Angeles. Just a day before enrolling in an undergrad program, a trajectory his parents lined up for him, Thompson had an abrupt, adverse reaction and broke the news to his family. “I was like, ‘This is not me; this is not what I want to do,’” he says. Instead, Thompson continued boosting his presence on another platform, YouTube, and headed west—which, as he expected, gave him a jolt of energy. “L.A. is this whole diferent scene where you can be yourself and dress how you wanna dress,” he says. “And everybody’s out here trying to succeed, chase goals, and be the next big thing.” But, for Thompson, after a year of asserting his independence, the City of Angels showed its demons—in his case, fake friends. “When you start to feel out L.A. a little bit more, you see people’s intentions,” he says. “People will mess around and backstab you—do you dirty just to get to the top. It’s ugly. I was not raised that way.” But Thompson has a best friend in fellow YouTuber Denzel Dion, who helps him

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OUT this black boy from North Carolina has. SoI’m never gonna hold my tongue.” that. Alot of people aren’t supportive of gays, and alot of people don’t have wha says. never he well,” give “I can as o up something through going who are people give up, because Ihave so many people who are watching me today, and these supporthis network, which helps to Thompson’s fuel ambitions. “I’m not gonna ‘Congrats on your son.’ And he was, like, ‘What do you mean?’ ” find out, but my dad’s abarber, and one of his customers came in and was, like, never would have I well. it my thought plan famil didn’t I But says. 2016. “In came to sharing it with the world, he was true to form. “I came out on Twitter,” he to get character lead for laid. As Andie Thompson’s own sexual awakening, when it the cheekilythe named YouTube series pay for wardrobe tutorials, since moving to West the Coast, theatricality his has he seen sorry,so but at look views.’” the “He told me, ‘Rickey, this isnot for you,’” Thompson says. “‘I’m gonna bereal. I’m trademark comedy hand his at tried and style videos, but Denzel steered back. him Thompson’s family didn’t love style the revelation, his of but they’re still of part We all need to know our strengths, and while Thompson may not beyour source stay grounded—and brand. on At one point, Thompson veered from his of. dream his bit of A to act was when fulfilled he nabbed the role Dakota of on Foursome , about, group a who friends of help y would would y are t t n n

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WITH THIS MONTH’S OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTION SLAVE PLAY, AND WITH A GROWING CATALOG FUELED BY A GLAZED-OVER ARTISTIC HISTORY, JEREMY O. HARRIS MIGHT BE THE TIRELESS QUEER BLACK SAVIOR THE THEATER WORLD NEEDS.

N August 2014, Jeremy O. Harris had a turning point. “It was sort of my Scarlett O’Hara moment,” says the playwright and actor, recalling the night when he received a standing ovation for a play he wrote as a finalist in the Samuel I French Of-Of Broadway Short Play Festival. The 30-minute production, which included music Harris composed with his friend Isabella Summers (from Florence and the Machine), did not win the top prize, but it did get people on their feet like no other work of the evening. “I had that ‘As God is my witness… I’ll never go hungry again,’ moment,” Harris says, “where I was, like, ‘I refuse! This is bullshit! None of these other plays got a standing ovation tonight, and I did. I did it!’” That fiercely determined attitude—along with encouragement from his mentor, playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Shinn— set Harris on a four-year path toward his next projects: two Of-Broadway productions, beginning this month with Slave Play. “I’m from Martinsville, Virginia,” Harris says, “and what I’ve always wanted for myself is to be able to write a play that will end up in the same Barnes & Noble as the first play I encountered [back home].” (Over lunch at Yale, where he’s in his final year at the School of Drama, Harris says that first play was A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he stumbled upon in fifth grade, when he was 11.) “I want that because when I think about the playwrights who have written plays that have reached that kid—playwrights who identify as black and gay—they are limited. I know ofhand the four who got to me: Branden Jacobs- Jenkins, Robert O’Hara, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Marcus Gardley.” Harris, who in 2009 dropped out of the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, is set on both standing out and adding his name to the ranks, not only of those writers who have inspired him but also of a lineage of black playwrights. He was named a 2016 MacDowell Colony fellow and was the

80 NOVEMBER 201 OUT OUT NOVEMBER 2018 81 82 OCTOBER 201 OUT “When I think about race and sexuality in America, palatability is the furthest thing from my concerns. recipient of the 2018-2019 Vineyard Theatre Paula Vogel I made a play that’s Playwriting Award. Slave Play, which covers race and sexuality and is billed as an “antebellum fever dream,” has palatable to me earned the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting but might not be Award and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. And all of this recognition is for art that sees Harris putting his palatable to my identity and heritage at the forefront. audience. I’ll see “My identity markers, which would have made this work less palatable 20 years ago—or even 10 years ago— how they reckon might now be part of the reason why my work is more with that.” impactful,” Harris says. Indeed, Slave Play, which will be directed by Robert O’Hara and debut Nov. 19 at New York Theatre Workshop, and Daddy, which opens next February Bradshaw as much as he does to that of Annie Baker and and stars Alan Cumming, include a queer sexuality that Rainer Werner Fassbinder. And while imbuing his art with wasn’t always accepted in the work of his theatrical this heritage, he poses even more questions. heroes. “In this landscape of white, cis, straightness, “I’m continuously asking people, Why is it that Alice there’s a curiosity about this black queer boy working in ChildressisnotgettingaremountingonBroadway?”he this paradigm,” Harris says, “which is both interesting says.“Whyisitthatwe’veonlyhad,like,oneAdrienne and scary because it feels like a trend. Like, what happens Kennedyremountinthepastfiveyears,butinNew when they get bored?” If and when they do, Harris intends York, we’ve had three by Edward Albee? Why is it that to have already done as much as he can to ask questions the works of so many experimental and genre-bending and poke and prod at topics surrounding race, gender, black artists don’t get taught in our schools? For me, sexuality, and the interactions therein. part of being a young writer is talking about your “Slave Play,” he says, somewhat cryptically, “moves best references—consistently.” if no one knows what will happen.” He likens this tactic He hopes to bring that conversation to the stage, from to the enticing efect that “18 or over” screens had on him Slave Play to Daddy and beyond. His next production is when he perused adult websites in his youth. “The way I one he’ll work on through his new award from Vineyard describe Slave Play to people is, ‘It’s a slave play; there’s a Theatre, and he describes it as The Colored Museum history of them; go see mine.’” And while the play drops a on crack—a reference to black gay playwright George few recognizable contemporary names—such as Rihanna, C. Wolfe’s 1986 satire that examined African-American whose inclusion reflects how music is another hallmark culture. In addition, last year Harris finished his first of Harris’s work—its creator isn’t exactly keen on making screenplay,whichisbasedontheviralTwitterstoryabout things that pander to the mainstream. a character named Zola, and involves strippers, pimps, “I don’t think about palatability as much as other people forced prostitution, and human traicking. It was co- seem to,” he says. “For me, it’s akin to respectability written, and will be directed, by Janicza Bravo, who has politics, and I think there’s very little necessity for helmed episodes of shows like Atlanta and Dear White respectability politics, especially in a time that’s so deeply People. He’s also working on an original screenplay with unrespectable. When I think about race and sexuality producer Bruce Cohen (Milk, Silver Linings Playbook)and in America, palatability is the furthest thing from my Makeready. concerns. I made a play that’s palatable to me but might “The fact that I took so many wrong turns and have not be palatable to my audience. I’ll see how they reckon ended up here means that everything was sort of right,” with that.” Harris says. “If I can utilize the wrong turns I made, and Harris’s work is built on the back of a history that’s bring along all the people I met along the way into my often left out of the traditional theater narrative. He cites journey of being a playwright, and introduce them and the chitlin circuit and storied productions by black artists their friends to people that I think are making the best as additional influences. For Slave Play, in particular, theaterrightnow,thentheatermightactuallybecomea he points to the work of Alice Childress and Thomas medium that people care about again.”

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Queen 101 As Bohemian Rhapsody struts into theaters, we serve up a beginner’s guide to the extravagant band that’s penetrated our culture for decades. COURTESY OF QUEEN OF COURTESY Confessions of a Queen Virgin Writer John Russell never thought much about this British rock quartet...until he couldn’t think about much else.

I had to admit to someone recently that I’m not a fan of Queen. I didn’t mean I’m “not a fan” in the tongue-in-cheek way, which most people use today as an ironic understatement of profound distaste. I just don’t have any Queen songs in my iTunes library or on any of my Spotify playlists. And I’ve never taken much time to digest the band or their legacy. But as the new Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody hits theaters, and posters of actor Rami Malek in character dominate every street corner, thinking about Queen and about the band’s queer influence. few years back.) contemplating their music is unavoidable. “Bohemian Rhapsody” has all the In “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the For many, Queen has always been queerness of a punk queen crashing a night Champions,” it doesn’t take a rock scholar unavoidable. Considering the enduring at the opera. At six minutes long, and with to see how deeply ironic it is that these omnipresence of songs like “Bohemian several sections evoking those of a classical two songs have become sports anthems. Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” and suite, it subversively fucks with the form of Think of the stadiums packed with fans “We Are the Champions,” it’s fairly safe a rock song, not to mention a commercial singing along in their slavish devotion to to assume that almost every adult in the pop single. The lyrics have the primal the American arena, where contemporary developed world has heard them. Chances scream of a pariah raging against the world. gladiators sacrifice their bodies on the alter are you’ve absorbed the lyrics to their hits And yet, the unaccepting masses embraced of capitalism, aggression, and masculinity. without even realizing it. (Say it with me: this strange, inherently queer single, But do they realize that the words they’re “Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do driving the track to become the band’s chanting were written by an East African the fandango?”) And these three anthems biggest hit and, arguably, Mercury’s magnus queer who was among the generation mark a good place to start when thinking opus. (Hell, even the Muppets covered it a of men devastated by the AIDS crisis? Probably not. Perhaps my apathy toward Queen is linked to the fact that they have always Rami Malek seemed to belong to straight culture. Maybe on playing it’s because their music falls into a straight- Freddie Mercury white-male-dominated category; maybe it’s because a band so massively successful “It’s important that we didn’t shy away could never be regarded as anything other (MALEK) FOX CENTURY OF TWENTIETH COURTESY from darker aspects of his life, but for than mainstream. him, I don’t think he’d necessarily want With the exception being Freddie us to linger on things too much. He was Mercury. A dynamo both wedded to his a human being who loved to celebrate— four-man outfit and gleaming beyond loved joy, loved fun. In the film, we get them, Mercury has felt like gay pop culture into very sensitive parts of his personal property, not unlike how Rock Hudson, journey, and we get to know what goes Elton John, Liberace, and Anderson Cooper on behind closed doors. But we also have. They’re all mainstream, but they’re get to celebrate him in the way I still...ours. And Freddie’s look—an evolution

think he deserves.” from ’70s glam to ’80s clone—serves as a / BAILEY ALEX (VINTAGE). OF QUEEN COURTESY

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The Ultimate 1. Title of Publication: Out 2. ISSN: 1062-7928 Queen Playlist 3. Date of Filing: 09-07-18 Inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody, 4. Frequency of Issue: Monthly except for Dec/Jan and June/July our 10 favorite Queen tracks 5. Number of issues published annually: 10 6. Annual Subscription Price: $ 19.95 7. Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publication: BohemianRhapsody(intheaters Out, Here Publishing Inc., PO Box 241579, Los Angeles, CA November 2) profiles Queen’s rise, 90024. FreddieMercury’s(RamiMalek) 8. Complete Address of the Headquarters of General Business attempted solo career, and the band’s Offices of the Publisher: Out, Here Publishing Inc., PO Box reinvigorationinthe1980s.Italso 241579, Los Angeles, CA 90024. 9. Full Names and Complete Mailing Address of Publisher, recountsMercury’sstrugglewithhis Editor and Managing Editor: Publisher: Joe Landry, Here orientationandhisdiagnosiswith Publishing Inc., PO Box 241579, Los Angeles, CA 90024. AIDS,whichledtohisdeathin1991. Editor-in-chief: Aaron Hicklin, Here Publishing Inc., PO Thefilmcouldgodeeperinexploring Box 241579, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Managing Editor: R. Mercury’sconfusedsexlifeand Kurt Osenlund, Here Publishing Inc., PO Box 241579, Los Angeles, CA 90024. egocentricity,buttheindeliblemark 10. Owner: Here Publishing Inc., PO Box 241579, Los Angeles, hisbandleftonrockmusicisgrandly CA 90024. amplified.Studiosessionsthat 11. Known Bondholders, Mortgages, and Other Security Holders yieldedsomeofthemostimportant Owning or Holding 1 Percent or More of Total Amount of rockanthemsofagenerationare Bonds, Mortgages, or Other Securities: None “If Queen belongs reimaginedbeforeoureyes,andthe 12. Has not changed during the preceding 12 months. 13. Out movie’sfinestmomentscomeas 14. Issue Date for Circulation Shown Below: September 2018 somehow to Malekelectrically embodiesMercury 15. Extent and Nature of Circulation: straight culture, onstage.It’senoughtoleaveviewers Average No. Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 diggingthroughtheirdevicesfor Months: Queenclassics,andhere,welist10 A. Total No. Copies (net press run): 196,947 Freddie Mercury is B. Paid Circulation: favorites, each still repeat-worthy 48 1. Mailed Outside County Paid Subscriptions: 169,667 unquestionably gay pop- yearsafterthebandwasformed. 2. Mailed in County Paid Subscriptions: 0 3. Paid distribution outside the mail including sales cultural property.” through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales and other paid distribution outside USPS: 1,695 4. Paid distribution by other classes of mail through templateforacertaintypeofgayman.In the USPS: 0 our 20s, we put on eyeliner and nail polish, C. Total Paid Distribution: 171,362 hope to be recognized as fabulous creatures, D. Free or Nominal Rate Distribution 1. Outside-County: 19,979 and fly our freak flags. Then, in our 2. In-County: 0 mid-30s and 40s, we scrub the glitter of, 3. Other Classes Mailed through USPS: 0 flagging hankies instead. We hit the gym, 4. Outside the Mail: 0 grow facial hair, and, like Freddie in the E. Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution: 19,979 F. Total Distribution: 191,341 ‘80s, adopt a more self-consciously butch G. Copies Not Distributed: 5,606 presentation. H. Total: 196,947 I thought about this while watching I. Percent Paid: 89.56%

Queen’s 1985 Live Aid performance on Actual No. Copies of Single Issue Published Nearest YouTube. Freddie’s mustache is epic, the to Filing Date: studded leather strap around his bicep just A. Total No. Copies (net press run): 197,598 1. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) B. Paid and/or Requested Circulation: provocative enough. It’s widely regarded 1. Mailed Outside County Paid Subscriptions: 171,515 as one of the greatest rock performances 2. Under Pressure ft. David 2. Mailed in County Paid Subscriptions: 0 ever. It’s only 25 minutes long, and it’s Bowie (1981) 3. Paid distribution outside the mail including sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter by no means a comprehensive setlist 3. Somebody to Love (1976) sales and other paid distribution outside USPS: 1,605 (no “Fat Bottom Girls,” “I Want to Break 4. Paid distribution by other classes of mail through Free,” or “You’re My Best Friend”), but 4. We Are the Champions (1977) the USPS: 0 C. Total Paid Distribution: 173,120 it encapsulated the band’s range, and 5. We Will Rock You (1977) D. Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Freddie inarguably owned the stage. For 1. Outside-County: 20,002 the largely unitiated like me, it’s especially 6. Another One Bites the Dust 2. In-County: 0 unforgettable. (1980) 3. Other Classes Mailed Through the USPS: 0 4. Outside the Mail: 0 The recordings of that performance 7. Radio Ga Ga (1984) E. Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution: 20,002 will be released for the first time ever on F. Total Distribution: 193,122 the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack, but 8. G. Copies Not Distributed: 4,476 Who Wants to Live Forever H. Total: 197,598 you can find the footage on YouTube, too. (1986) I. Percent Paid: 89.64% It’s a good place to start if, like me, you’re 16. This Statement of Ownership will be printed in 9. Don’t Stop Me Now (1979) reconsidering Queen for the very first time. November 2018 Issue. 17. I certify that all information furnished on this form is true And reconsidering your playlists. 10. You’re My Best Friend (1976) and complete. Joe Landry, EVP Publishing.

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