On Queer Pulp and Where Homos Happen: One There’s an obvious association with homosexuality and the city (as space of sexual possibility; as conducive to anonymous contact or community; as destination for generations of queer diasporic movement etc etc), but I enjoy the specificity of this title. Not just the city, but Midtown! And a midtown gym. Classic location of male homosexuality, the gym has a long, hard and proud heritage (both imagined and real) of being one of homosexuality’s preferred sites of contact.

On Queer Pulp and Where Homos Happen: One

There’s an obvious association with homosexuality and the city (as space of sexual possibility; as conducive to anonymous contact or community; as destination for generations of queer diasporic movement etc etc), but I enjoy the specificity of this title. Not just the city, but Midtown! And a midtown gym. Classic location of male homosexuality, the gym has a long, hard and proud heritage (both imagined and real) of being one of homosexuality’s preferred sites of contact.