CMJ Portrait: Rapper Theophilus London

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

"Dylan’s survived, grown up. He’s a giant, like Chaplin or Picasso. Like Brando or Muhammed Ali . . . Nobody else even comes close — Jagger, Springsteen, Paul Simon."

"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."

"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.' "

“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.”