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REVIEW: “Creep: Accusations and Confessions” is a scathing essay collection that analyzes the rotted power structures buttressing North American culture

Putting a bow on a banner year for queer and trans lit

“Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s” captures a vital and vibrant era of queer and trans life

Our culture maven S. Bear Bergman has some terrific suggestions on navigating family drama and crafting your own traditions

ANALYSIS: While the new biopic “Maestro” embraces Bernstein’s queerness, it still leaves questions lingering

Looking for a happy cry? S. Bear Bergman has you covered

Community connections, tenuous and profound, resonate across time in these heady, heart-rending titles

REVIEW: At its best, this pedagogy of fucking makes transgressive queer desire palpable

Plus Kareem Khubchandani, W.A.W. Parker and a queer theatre series online

Writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado has created an unusual paean to freedom

REVIEW: Chris Bergeron’s dystopian new autofiction novel delivers mixed results

The author talks life on the internet, anti-trans backlash in the U.K., and the horror of seeing your loved ones radicalized

Plus a short film on Ukraine, “Girlfriends” by Emily Zhou and I Put A Spell On You Broadway fundraiser

His new star-studded memoir dishes deflection and reflection in equal measure

Renowned trans academic McKenzie Wark blends memory, theory, fiction and myth in new memoir

REVIEW: With restrained performances and über design, Almodóvar’s new short film finally lets two gay cowboys ride off into a Technicolor sunset

“Why Mariah Carey Matters” is an ode to the Songbird Supreme and the queers who love her

Books

A deeply Cree and gloriously queer conversation with Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

Myriam Gurba’s penetrating insights into the inexorable fog of trauma and abuse

5 books we missed this year

‘Renegades’ documents the queer history Chloe Sherman helped create

Holidays got you blue? Here’s some joy and fight and warm hugs

Leonard Bernstein was a towering genius, a man of multitudes. Addressing his sexuality is no easy feat

Miss Chief’s memoirs, ‘Next Goal Wins,’ drag kings, gay bar history and more

Posthumous books by Canlit legends Marie-Claire Blais and RM Vaughan

‘Daddy Lessons’ by Steacy Easton offers an uneven blend of memoir, literary analysis and pornography

Hot thrills from João Dall’Stella and a sexy musical with Baby Tate

Experimental documentary ‘Orlando: My Political Biography’ is an invitation to connect with the non-binary child inside us all

‘Valid’ takes on the surprisingly rich postapocalyptic transfeminine genre

Alison Rumfitt’s ‘Brainwyrms’ is trans body horror that feels all too real

A corporate podcast and a science fiction novel among Bear’s latest recommendations?

Bejewelled and beguiled: meet businessman and philanthropist Salah Bachir

In ‘Love and Money, Sex and Death,’ McKenzie Wark writes to the people who shaped her

Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Strange Way of Life’ answers a question ‘Brokeback Mountain’ asked 18 years ago

New book an ode to the Songbird Supreme and her queer fan base