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Nonfiction Review

The End of Queer Reading as We Know It. On the Closing of A Different Light Bookstore

I’m old enough to remember a time when literally everyone I knew regularly visited a bookstore named A Different Light.  I am actually referring to the first New York location–on Hudson Street.  That store functioned as something of a drop-in

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Read Nathaniel Frank’s Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with reformers in the Oval Office, he responded to their requests with three cryptic sentences:  “I agree with you.  I want to do it.  Now make me do it.”  This possibly apocryphal quotation has become

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