pomo's pride primer

all of our pride content in one place

As we all know, it is the month of June. And cracks in pomo is your best source for edgy, outside-the-box takes on all things sexual identity-related (to the point that Stephen has been bestowed the title “the Ayatollah of identity and sexuality”). Thus, we are posting this primer aggregating our most important queer-related content.

Top 10 Substack posts

1. Welcome to the post-gay era

2. The Post-Pride Reading (& Watch) List

3. Pride is now passe (at least in culturally-relevant cities like NYC)

4. How str8 girls ruined pride

5. Conversion Therapy vs. Bisexual Responsiveness

6. The great gays are gone

7. The Return of the Homofascist

8. The Year of the Eunuch and the Abolition of Queer Spaces

9. The Trad to Gender Queer pipeline

10. Our definitive post on all things trans

Pod eps

• Baby, you were [possibly not] born this way w/ David Dudrick

• Ex-gays, Homof@scists, & Pansexual Zoomers w/ Pieter Valk LPC

• Our interview with Pierre d'Alancaisez & Verdurin and Amir Naaman, the editors of Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual

  • On that note, you should pick up a copy of Inversion, read the excerpt of my chapter in Compact, and watch my reel about it:

Top 10 articles elsewhere

1. We are all gay now, First Things

2. The New Ex-Gay, Compact

3. The Cognitive Dissonance of Rainbow Capitalism, Catholic World Report

4. ACT UP and the future of AIDS, Compact

5. The Impossible Object of Queer Desire, First Things

6. The case for Bad Catholics, Spectator

7. Queer Anti-Colonialism, Compact

8. Secular humanism is ruining drag, Spectator

9. Andrea Long Chu, Quentin Crisp, and Raffalovich, Catholic World Report

10. Donald Trump: Gay Icon?, The Critic