When Passing For Straight Was All That Was Possible
In the '70s and '80s, living an openly gay existence was unimaginable. Could this current regime return us to this repressive way of life?
M.G. Lord
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M. G. LORD is the author of THE ACCIDENTAL FEMINIST: HOW ELIZABETH TAYLOR RAISED OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND WE WERE TOO DISTRACTED BY HER BEAUTY TO NOTICE; FOREVER BARBIE: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF A REAL DOLL; and ASTRO TURF, a family memoir of aerospace culture during the Cold War. She currently lives in L.A. and teaches at the Univer sity of Southern California. After graduating from Yale, she served for 12 years as the editorial-page cartoonist for Newsday. Recently, she createD a graphic novel set in what she considers a perfect world. It is populated exclusively by anthropomorphic animals.
You’d Be Such a Good Mother. If Only You Weren’t You
From Meghan Daum's anthology, SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED, memoirist M.G. Lord's brutally honest essay about her blindingly agonizing decision not to have kids.
“Going Clear” Is a Powerful Indictment of the Insidiously Absurd
Scientology, with its far-out sci-fi origin story, is an easy target for laughs. Until you consider that this multi-billion-dollar, celeb-driven, international enterprise trades in human trafficking.