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Is a bean-bag chair a chair?
This was one of the several questions I didn’t have a ready answer for when I appeared on Max Karson’s podcast earlier this week to discuss my three-part Reflector episode about the evolution of the LGBT moveme...
Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Balusters
A self-loathing gay man moves in with his ailing aunt in rural Idaho. Race and class tensions erupt within a neighborhood council. A daughter looks back at her mother’s imperfect 1970s feminism.
All...
I got into journalism after spending around eight years in LA chasing dreams of being a TV writer. Those years were mostly miserable, as I am someone who thrives when given an assignment, a deadline, and regular doses of praise. As you can...
Everyone, I have a funny essay out today in The Times (the UK one).
Do take a look to read the story behind this before-and-after….
Note: An earlier version of this post inadvertently left out the word "former” in the headline. (Now that woulda been a scoop.) I regret this embarrassing error!
Welcome, all, to the third and final installment of Strange Bedfellows. Judgi...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Ben Kawaller's videos and humor writing have appeared in The Times of London, The New York Post, The Free Press, LA Magazine, Racket News, The American Bystander, The Advocate, and Salon, among others. He lives in New York.
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