CMJ Portrait: Make-Up Artist Lisa Howard

"She's regarded by those who don't know better as the authority on black gay life, and was recently appointed the James Baldwin Professor of African American Effeminacy at Harvard."

“You know, the guys there were so beautiful," says Allen Ginsberg of the Stonewall, "they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”

"Traditional watering-place for writers, longshoremen, Bohemians, pub crawlers, socialists, and just-plain-drunks, it was the kind of scene he'd dreamed of."

"In the past few years, Daddy/boy (or girl) erotic role-playing has emerged in the lesbian community — even among women who don't normally walk on the wild side."

"One detective arms himself with a sawed-off baseball bat. 'We’ll shoot the first motherfucker that comes through the door.' "

"I've gone around since the end of last year asking every lesbian I know if she wants to get I married and of course  it's been a confusing proposal."