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benwritesthings.bsky.social
writer, historian, bad gay, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social’s boyfriend BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022) FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2026) www.benwritesthings.com www.badgayspod.com
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Thank you! Slava’s photo was the essential starting point

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It's worth remarking how much the conspiratorial fantasies Greenblatt is spinning about student protesters - part of a cabal of foreigners which connects every social movement to every other, loyal to foreign nations overseas - parallels the historic structure of conspiratorial antisemitism.

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But according to noted ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah, it's ethical to earn investment income from renting out the holding facility where he's being detained :-)

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Rosie O'Donnell as a lesbian nun FROM MANITOBA (with that accent!!!!! does Michael Patrick King think Manitoba is in Queens?) is why And Just Like That is the worst show on television and I will start a letter writing campaign if it is cancelled.

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It is impossible to underestimate the British press

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fao @ciaran.operationglad.io

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So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

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"Words shape the mess we’re given into worlds we can survive. Edmund White will be remembered as a model for how to write dissident life."

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Flutter and abandon

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White’s genius made the critics look small.

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‘Edmund White insisted that “non-subject” of homosexuality was worthy of literature, and simultaneously refused to fix or define it too precisely, or to imbue it with essential goodness.’ Ben Miller (@‪benwritesthings.bsky.social‬), new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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"To write this way about cruising is to insist that faggots are people and our experiences are human: that we, like everyone else real or invented, deserve the open destiny of life." @benwritesthings.bsky.social

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Thanks to the @lrb.co.uk for letting me write something about Edmund White, whose work meant a lot to me. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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And here’s what she said weeks ago to me:

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heaven is the gay bar where these two fight

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gay rights

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Friedrich Merz:

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.

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“some of y’all… and it shows” coming home to roost

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Happy Weird Vibes Pride Month ™️

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the best to ever do it

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ah yes the famous tax scandals CumEx and CumCum

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the people posing for family photographs at public lynchings in the American South would like a word with you

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The Guardian has an infinite repository of ladies called names like Arabella or Helena with big London houses that will say something reactionary about transpeople under a thin veneer of leftist feminism.

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How profoundly embarrassing for James Wolcott to have this prim homophobia on the public record

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Good morning to everyone except the two men in my train compartment who did a two man comedy routine of waking up, taking things out of many plastic zippered bags, putting them back in the plastic zippered bags, and having a conversation about it. At 6:30 in the morning.

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The absolutely cooked opinions of some on the left. Honestly.

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idly remembering “being on a budget is diet culture” for no particular reason bsky.app/profile/benw...

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