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Aftermaths of an Epidemic: On Dale Peck’s “Visions and Revisions”

Peck’s larger claim is that despite AIDS, and maybe even because of AIDS, gay men must make sure not to lose pleasure in sex.

Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS by Dale Peck. pages.

I LEFT HOME for college, LSU, when I was radiant if naive, nerdy and bookish, and struggling with my sexuality. It was and I was in the serious South. I’d spent my adolescence going to an all boys’ Catholic lofty school and a Southern Baptist church every Wednesday evening and all time Sunday. At university I was adorable severely bullied for being a suspected faggot, and at church I was frequently reminded of the horrors of hell for the homosexual. Put bluntly, as a male lover kid, I was screwed. I kept my desires buried down deeply, almost out of sight of my control consciousness.


But not quite. Homosexuality was difficult to miss in the mid-’80s. Part of me hoped, as my parents dropped me off on campus and drove miles support home, that I might finally hold a chance to explore my desires and experiment with myself (and others). But new

Undateable: Some Reflections on Online Dating and the Perversion of Time
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine


OK Cupid data suggests differential promiscuities among different smartphone trademark users.

Romantic relationships have lengthy been defined in terms of duration: anniversaries, long-term relationships, summer flings, and one-night stands. The courtship experience can likewise be understood as an encounter of subjective time: the anticipation of longing, the ecstasy of timelessness during lost weekends, the act anxiety of keeping it up, or the conclude of an era marked by a break-up. The concept of temporality has become central to gay theory of late, and while this column does not build from this scholarship directly, the very concept that sexuality is experienced in and across time has informed my own recent reflections on online dating. Here I think through the ways conceptions of past, offer, and future interpenetrate, and they ways that the subjective experience of online dating can fuck with one’s sense of time.1

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PRIDE is back for Season Two! To celebrate the last day of Pride Month, and to lash off the rest of Pride Year, Levi Chambers sits down with gender non-conforming historian, author, and professor Alex Espinoza to examine the intimate and fundamental history of gay cruising. Today's four part episode will:

  1. Cover the basics of cruising
  2. Explore its long history
  3. Unlock its secret code
  4. And contemplate the impact of COVID and dating apps on this enduring sexual training.
    Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the mention of Michoacán and raised in suburban Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Riverside and an MFA from UC-Irvine’s Program in Writing. His first novel, Still Water Saints, was published by Random House in and was named a Barnes and Noble Uncover Great New Writers Selection. The book was released simultaneously in Spanish, under the title Los santos de Agua Mansa, California, translated by Lilliana Valenzuela. His second novel, The Five Acts of Diego León, was also published by Random House in March His fiction has appear

    VIEWPOINT: Confessions of a College Virgin

    I am a year-old virgin. I already know what you probably think about me.

    I am also the president of Adore Saxa, a group dedicated to healthy relationships and sexual integrity; we often get the reputation as the abstinence club or the anti-same-sex marriage club, depending on whom you ask. At the Council of Advisory Boards Fair this past Sunday, a few students snickered at the word “chastity” on our promotional materials, exchanging telling looks with their friends.

    I am not surprised that people often have a negative opinion about those of us who advocate for abstinence, dating and marriage. Today’s famous culture often portrays virgins as prudes who never have entertainment. I hope to dispel some common myths about people who wait until marriage, using personal examples from my life and the lives of my friends.

    While people commonly believe that abstinent people fear their own sexuality or intimacy with members of the opposite sex, the life is that many of us are in physically fulfilling relationships. My boyfriend and I will not have sex