Ben Appel’s Newsletter
Ben AppelNo-holds-barred, tepid to hot takes on art, culture, and politics
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 54 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Former GLAAD President: We Were Wrong to Medicalize Trans-Identified Children
On Friday, Longview’s Reflector podcast debuted Strange Bedfellows: When LGB met T, a three-part series about how the gay rights movement became the LGBTQ movement. Ben Kawaller, a cohost of the series and its lead reporter, interviewed me...
Our Brief Moment in the Sun
In June 2014, I was thirty-one and living in Maryland with my fiancé and our cat. That month, my sisters threw us a beautiful engagement party in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s sculpture garden, where our first nephew, then only eight months...
This Is Queer
Recently, the Instagram algorithm fed me a funny video of an online meditation group being crashed by a bunch of troublemakers. A guy who calls himself Jarry and four of his friends pretend that they’ve signed on to the Zoom call to partici...
The Situation Is Not So Great
On Tuesday The Atlantic published my essay, “In Defense of Effeminate Boys,” in which I argue that inherently gender nonconforming boys—a natural variation of the male sex—should be accepted as they are rather than pressured to conform to m...
The War Out There, The Rot Within
It took me three years to write my memoir. The entire process was excruciating. Not so much the writing-painful-memories part. That’s old hat for me. The excruciating part was making sure I really understood the complex subject matter I was...
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My memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic’ is now available. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, Quillette, The Free Press, Queer Majority, UnHerd, and many other publications.
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