I’ve got an essay in Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual, detailing how I survived the death of the counterculture. It’s the first publication of Verdurin, the London project space now branching out into publishing. And it’s going to be amazing and consequential. Pre-orders now available through the Verdurin site; more details below…
While it was until recently deviant to promote gay lifestyles, it is now ‘problematic’ to suggest that not all departures from the norm are in the homosexual’s best interest. In the world of coercive affirmation, a new wave of discontent rises among the once-keenest proponents of sexual progress: gay men.
Bold and daring, the essays in Inversion reflect on the vicious cycle of debasement, acceptance, sacrifice, and liberation that homosexuality has been stuck in for longer than it wishes to acknowledge.
Inversion considers the cultural and political aspects of gay life after homosexuality as it battles with queerness and the allure of a reactionary return, pharmacologically fueled sexual degeneration, and existential dread. Has the gay man — homosexual, queer, or inverted — rendered himself obsolete?
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Edited by Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez. With contributions by Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, and Marcas Lancaster.