Dale Corvino
dalecorvino.bsky.social
Dale Corvino
@dalecorvino.bsky.social
memoir: AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY
http://bit.ly/AfterKept
SW-informed advocate for body autonomy & decrim.
Queer lit for your nerves 🏳️‍🌈
Miss Manhattan @ Niagara

I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of…
Miss Manhattan @ Niagara
I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, "Are U Available?" which covers my friendship with Dean Johnson. About Dean's core grievance with the music industry: I later attended a screening of the film Mondo New York in which he appeared with his first band, the Weenies. I found the film’s wide-eyed, sensationalist framing of New York’s underground scene tiresome freak-gawking, but Dean’s incendiary performance of the song “Fuck You” woke me right up.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
SW was my only redemption- ✂️ from my convo w Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project 💓
September 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
NYRS Launch @ Book Row

Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a…
NYRS Launch @ Book Row
Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a baseline identity, a bisexual Italian guy from either Brooklyn or Long Island. The customers, locals and tourists alike, ate it up. I modeled my speech on blue-collar types, mechanics who drive in early from Long Island in their vans and go from one job to the next, men who fixed things, men who had the right tools for the job.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Queer Discourse Podcast

I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency,…
Queer Discourse Podcast
I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition–and got into the Yoko Ono of it all.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Season 3 Episode 5 of Queer Discourse podcast. Thanks to Lou Barrett for the convo about such major themes as agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition, and the Yoko Ono of it all:

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Queer Discourse S3 E5
Discussing agency, Italian-American identity, and the Yoko Ono of it all w/ Lou Barrett.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"ANDRÉS" excerpts from AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appearing @ The Memoirist: open.substack.com/pub/thememoi...
"ANDRÉS" excerpts
from ch. 9 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY (C&R Press, 2025)
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July 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Felice Picano’s AMBIDEXTROUS reviewed

A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we were…
Felice Picano’s AMBIDEXTROUS reviewed
A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we were actively corresponding. Despite health challenges, Felice was gracious enough to provide me with a blurb for my memoir: Afterlife of a Kept Boy is a sensational read, immediate, engrossing, frank and at times way out there. Corvino's detailing in at least the first part is so intricate and accurate one could reproduce the upper-upper's lunch and dining…
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June 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Twink Death of it all

Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the…
The Twink Death of it all
Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the review: When a twink dies, what else fades? Maybe it's that certain combination of gumption, magnetism, and fear—the fear that one's worth can't be extricated from the body, or the belief in someone else's power to will one into being. But what remains?
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June 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Blueskies! My memoir which just dropped has its 1st review and I swoon 🥹 For The Whitney Review, Journey Streams writes, “his writing is as sumptuous as his story is steeped in turmoil…”

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May 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy Indy Bookshop Day! Advance copies of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY available at @bgsqd.bsky.social (photo) and Fabulosa In SF
Or walk into your fav queer Indy & order:
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April 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Starting tonight I’m taking my queer liberation memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY on the road.
Now shipping:
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March 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
From the carpet for the LA Premiere of THE BIG JOHNSON, Lola Rocknrolla’s doc feature about QueerCore Party King Drag Queen, my hustler brother Dean Johnson.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yea the state is crumbling, but I’ve got a 🏳️‍🌈, s*X affirming memoir to launch in 1 MONTH! Pre-order: bit.ly/AfterKept

The gorg @otroedgargomez.bsky.social called it “…nothing short of a masterpiece. I swear this book activated something ancient and homosexual in me.” 🙈
February 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Heyyyy just got this blurb from #queerlit legend Felice Picano. His 1979 thriller the Lure was the first novel I read w a nuanced 🏳️‍🌈protagonist, Noel, the titular lure.
FP’s kind words are for my SW memoir, AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY from C&R Press
bit.ly/AfterKept

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January 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Real-time queer relationship advice from your fav married x hustler:
January 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
‘24 Writing Year in Review:
Much 💓 to the queer venues, bookshops, reviews, and readers.
December 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Yesterday for World AIDS Day @bgsqd.bsky.social I read an excerpt from an Allan Barnett story from THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS from @rebelsatori.bsky.social Getting deep into his work, I adore his voice—it is vital, heartbreaking, and laced w sharp, dry, gay humor (I’m at 1 hr in)
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December 3, 2024 at 3:26 AM
1st time participating in World AIDS Day bringing up some feelings. I spent the crisis hiding my college roommate/lover’s diagnosis from classmates, friends, family.
Reading from this vital work at @rebelsatori.bsky.social annual reading today at 3 PM @bgsqd.bsky.social live & streaming.
December 1, 2024 at 4:02 PM
INTRO: Hi BlueSky: I’m 🏳️‍🌈 NYCer married author. Figuring out platforms, the Great Sorting™️, & our newly captured context. Came to writing via s*x work, which informs my advocacy for bodily autonomy. You can find my essays on Marilyn Monroe, kink, & Lemebel online. 📖 2: www.crpress.org/shop/afterli...
Afterlife of a Kept Boy - C&R Press
Presale Available Now, Afterlife of a Kept Boy will ship on or around March 1, 2025! C&R Press Nonfiction 2023 Award Winner ABOUT Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1986: a sexually confused college kid is ...
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November 24, 2024 at 10:23 PM