"The Leather Daddy and the Femme" is my favorite! It's exactly the world I wanted to move to the city and become queer in order to be a part of! <3

American Psycho should only have been like 80 pages, after that it was just self-indulgence. I get it, it's "Notes from the Underground" for Reaganite America, but there's a reason NftU is a novela-- you can only spend so long with that character.

St. Louis style pizza? Get the fuck outta here!

Follow this man around until he has a meet-cute with a middle-aged brunette Mary-Sue-type, and then you will behold the face of the God of our world!

Some disabilities are invisible

Trump's orders are intentionally disabling the parts of government he wants and further eroding agency autonomy Chevron Doctrine, bc oligarchs are against gov doing anything but protecting their property and redistributing wealth to them, & also to expand executive power and remove barriers to it

It's worth reading this alongside Margot Canaday's The Straight State (press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...), where she argues defining homo-/hetero-sexuality and enforcing those categories was key to how American government grew administrative capacity throughout the 20th century.