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Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson

Beginning in June, the Amtrak Police Department (APD) had been running a plainclothes sting operation in New York’s Penn Station bathroom—the old one near Eighth Avenue, not any of the new Moynihan ones. Writing for The City, Gwynne Hogan reported a clear “surge” of twenty-three arrests for “public lewdness” during Pride month alone. In the…

ways of making love #2 (for BM)

bird intelligence caracols and mouses mistakes alphabetization by emotions orange peels in tea leaves leaving your lover for a while coming back disastrously teaching someone how to talk to you buying bananas for everyone even that woman you dislike being extraordinarily patient spitting in the face of danger opening a new account fire breathing toothpaste…