During the spring of 2003, the unnamed narrator of Ellis Scott’s Night Terminus travels to a hillside town in the Western Himalayas. He grows close to a Dutch-born Buddhist monk, Rudolph. Their mutual friend, Gloria, explains that she has known the “fit, distinguished-looking man in his sixties” since the 1980s. She was working as a nurse on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco when Rudolph brought his…
Kevin Shaw
Kevin Shaw is a poet and essayist in Ottawa.
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Kevin Shaw
When I open Instagram, I’m often presented with an ad for the streaming service Mubi. Over a curated selection of queer films, a bolded line reads, “This is not a coming out story.” The implication seems to be that our community, that nebulous alphabet of sexual identities, has transcended the need for stories of our emergence from the…
In a July 2019 essay for The New Republic, the gay American novelist and rabble-rouser Dale Peck referred to Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay man to make a major bid for the White House, as a “neoliberal,” a “Jeffersonian meritocrat,” a “gay teenager,” a reluctant bottom (in so many words),…