Review of Our Own Worst Enemy, by Tom Nichols (2021) In recent times I have found the current American ethos best described as “I’ve got mine; you can go fuck yourself.” American individualism, rampant consumer capitalism, and the breakdown of any sense of community - the erosion of fundamental values necessary for a democracy to function … Continue reading The Triumph of Narcissism, Anger, and Resentment?
Author: Les K. Wright
Les K. Wright is a queer historian, writer, photographer, literary scholar and book publisher. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s. He received his MA from the University of Tübingen and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He is a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society San Francisco, founder of the Bear History Project, and founder and president of the Bear History Project International. He is editor of The Bear Book and The Bear Book II, author of Resilience: A Polemical Memoir of AIDS, Bears, and F•cking, and a collection of his photographs have been published in Salt City and Its Environs. His writing has appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Good Men Project, VoiceMale, Drummer, RFD, Bay Area Reporter, Culture Vulture, White Crane Review, and elsewhere. His bimonthly column"Bear Tracks" has been appearing in Bear World Magazine since 2023. He lives in Syracuse, NY and has found his gay spiritual home in the Billys and Easton Mountain.
“All hail, the American Boy!”
A Dismantling of the American Dream In A Cool Million Nathaniel West parodied the myth of the American Dream through the “dismantling” of Lemuel Pitkin. In “All hail, the American Boy!” (The closing sentence of A Cool Million) Les K. Wright recounts his own would-be “dismantling” as the American Dream reveals itself for it truly is. The American … Continue reading “All hail, the American Boy!”
Queer durch Tübingen
I just received the Queer durch Tübingen catalog of the exhibition on the history of homosexuality in Tübingen put on by the Stadtarchiv of the city. I was an active member of the IHT [Initiativgruppe Homosexualität Tübingen], the gay activist group, from 1975 to 1979. I moved to Tübingen from Würzburg with my lover and began my doctoral studies at … Continue reading Queer durch Tübingen
Guest Opinion: Susan Sontag and me: Epidemics I have lived through
When the COVID-19 shutdown began in the spring of 2020, I posted on Facebook that I expected the pandemic to be, for me, a pain in the ass, a royal pain in the ass. I am a long-term (pre-highly active anti-retroviral therapy, or HAART) survivor of AIDS. I lived through the first 15 years of … Continue reading Guest Opinion: Susan Sontag and me: Epidemics I have lived through
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