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“Big Tits and a Pair of Hot Pants”: Into the Archives For Marsha P. Johnson’s 80th Birthday
August 24, 2025
In 1979, cultural historian Steven Watson interviewed Marsha P. Johnson, who would have turned 80 today, outside the Stonewall Inn, 10 years after the uprising that forged the modern gay rights movement.
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Thanks to Tourmaline, the Long-Awaited Biography of Marsha P. Johnson Is Here.
May 20, 2025
“I feel really blessed to have come up in a political community where we were receiving the gift of Marsha’s freedom movement,” the author told writer Journey Streams.
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Inside MACHO, Dries Van Noten’s Exhibition of Rare Warhol Polaroids
November 22, 2023
“Warhol’s Polaroids are in our cultural DNA.”
Ric Wilson Is Listening to Stevie Wonder, Big Freedia, and Everything “Very, Very Black”
July 6, 2020
The Chicago rapper’s latest track, “Fight Like Ida B. & Marsha P.” is a history lesson coated in a honey-thick beat.
Photographer Stanley Stellar on Capturing New York’s Queer and Gorgeous “Totally Secret Society”
June 24, 2020
A world filled with close friendship, barbershops with disco lights, long nights at the pier, and plenty of “man ass.”
How Alvin Baltrop Captured the Intimate Queer History of Manhattan’s West Side Piers
August 5, 2019
In December of 1973, a section of the West Side Elevated Highway between Little West 12th and Gansevoort Streets, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, collapsed under the weight of an asphalt truck, permanently closing the highway south of the accident. For the next 15 years, while the city wrung its hands over the cost of rehabilitating […]