“My life was always dependent on my needs and also the network of people needing to depend on me”
Daniel Sanchez Torres
Daniel Sanchez Torres is a writer and editor who frequently writes about sex, relationships, art, and culture. He writes the newsletter Rough Draft. His first book is Cruising Diaries by the King of Sex, out now with EVERYTHING MATTERS press.
Aristotle and Dante are back. Nine years later, author Benjamin Alire Sáenz delivers the sequel to a beloved queer YA love story
“It is one thing to fall in love. It is quite another thing to stay in love”
First Lady Nancy Reagan befriended gay men, then betrayed them
The legacy of the Reagan presidency’s callous handling of the early HIV/AIDS crisis still haunts us today
‘Edge of Seventeen’ remains a coming-out classic
Starring Lea DeLaria in one of her earliest roles, the film’s message, she says, still holds up 20 years later
His smell haunts me, even after he disappeared from my life
I tried to commit the layers and notes of his aroma to memory so that I had no regrets when he left
Navigating a situation-ship at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic
I replay the circle of love and rejection while death stalks