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2 days ago

Saint Laurent’s Paris fashion week show takes audience on a holiday to Fire Island

Sunglasses and bright colours dominated a beach-ready collection, as director Anthony Vaccarello namechecked artists who documented LGBTQ+ life

Fire Island, the holiday destination near New York, has …

3 days ago

Why did the US bomb Iran now? | Nader Hashemi

If Iran’s nuclear program was not an imminent threat, what motived the US-Israeli attack? Why now? The answer is political opportunity

The United States has bombed Iran. Donald Trump announced on Sund…

12 days ago

My unexpected Pride icon: indie breakup songs said all the things I couldn’t say to other boys

From John Lennon’s takedown of Paul McCartney to the Libertines’ Can’t Stand Me Now, songs by straight men about falling out with their friends were strangely romantic to me

When I was a teenager, in …

18 days ago

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl | Editorial

Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

“What if I could write about my life exactly as it was?” the teenage narrator of Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story wonders. “What i…

22 days ago

Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’

• Edmund White, novel…

23 days ago

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

Edmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his …

5 months ago

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White review – a glorious celebration of queer love

In frank and hilarious style, the author recounts the significant encounters that helped make him who he is

In this, Edmund White’s sixth memoir, the American novelist and critic observes that a unive…

Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’d had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

The American author’s fifth memoir is all about sex - with alfresco frolics in London and encounters in a bullring among the tamer anecdotes. At 85, he explains why he thought the book would never be…

Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’ve had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

The American author’s fifth memoir is all about sex - with alfresco frolics in London and encounters in a bullring among the tamer anecdotes. At 85, he explains why he thought the book would never be…

The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain… and in the bathhouse

The American author’s anthology of his many physical encounters is a spiritual quest as much as a sensual one

Don’t expect to read Edmund White’s The Loves of My Life with one hand. True, it is subtit…

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