Innehållsförteckning för April 2016 från OUT

MIKE ALBO In This Issue: Writer, “Refugee Camp,” page 13; “Broads in the City,” page 66 Bio: Michael Albo is a writer, a performer, and the author of Hornito (HarperCollins), andThe Underminer, with Virginia Heffernan (Bloomsbury), among other titles. His solo show “The Junket” ran Off-Broadway in 2014, and he’ll perform Spermhood at Dixon Place in New York City this May. Instagram: @albomike Twitter: @albomike JEANEEN LUND In This Issue: Photographer, Genevieve Gaignard, page 50 Bio: Lund grew up in Hollywood and has photographed the showbiz, music, fashion, and art worlds. Work led her to New York City and Europe, including Iceland, where she documented the country’s first traveling circus. She’s shot for Warner Bros., Nike, Nintendo, and Teen Vogue. Lund lives in Los Angeles. Instagram: @jeaneenlund SCOTT INDRISEK In…

“Kiki has always been a great way for me to deal with death. We started these characters when a huge number of our friends had died.” WHEN TICKETS WERE released last fall for Seeking Asylum!, Kiki and Herb’s upcoming reunion in New York City, fans went nuts, buying seats like groceries the day before a hurricane. Performances sold out in minutes, and by the time an extension of the show was announced, Joe’s Pub, the venue hosting it, had posted signs at the box office that read, “No individual buyer can purchase more than eight tickets!” Consisting of a drunk, delirious septuagenarian lounge singer (played by Justin Vivian Bond) and her long-suffering gay piano player (Kenny Mellman), Kiki and Herb reinvented downtown cabaret and thrust a hot, angry knife through…

Brief Summary of Patient Information about GENVOYA GENVOYA (jen-VOY-uh) (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide) tablets Important: Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist about medicines that should not be taken with GENVOYA. There may be new information about GENVOYA. This information is only a summary and does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment. What is the most important information I should know about GENVOYA? GENVOYA can cause serious side effects, including: • Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis may happen in some people who take GENVOYA. Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like symptoms of other health…

Ever since the Beatles stormed our shores and whipped millions of teen girls into a screaming, panting frenzy, the Chelsea boot has defined American cool. But you don’t need to reach rock god status—or even be able to keep the beat—to slip your feet into a pair. New versions from Burberry, Prada, Tommy Hilfiger, and Dior transcend their London roots and look great dressed up or down—with jeans or a slim suit—on stage, on the street, or just on your walk to the office water cooler.…

Botanical designs, geometry, and machine age materials converged to give rise to art deco, an iconic style that surfaced in the 1920s and lasted through the ’40s. The term conjures the lavishly ornamented Chrysler Building, glass objects by Lalique, or paintings by Tamara de Lempicka—symbols of opulence and prosperity. Now designers have turned to those grand inspirations and modernized them. Whether it’s bookends from Calvin Klein or sharp looks from Perry Ellis, these splurges will make you feel like a million bucks.…

THE HASHTAG stared back at me, hanging there on the Internet for the world to see: #prepsowhite. It was a comment, beneath an article profiling people who were bravely outing themselves as users of the HIV-prevention drug. All the faces staring back at me were white gay men, a detail that wasn’t lost on the person who made the comment. Despite HIV having a greater effect on other communities, why is it we still default to the experience of white gay men? I’m a white gay man living with HIV, and I’m tired of us hogging the HIV spotlight. From ACT UP to PrEP, our experiences and opinions seem to have more weight, despite the fact that we are just one facet of an incredibly diverse community of people living…

QUITTING SCHOOL MIGHT be the best thing Andy Simmonds ever did for himself. While studying design at Brigham Young University, an institution with a policy of expelling students for same-sex dating, this Salt Lake City-based Mormon trusted his edgy, bubblegum instincts and dropped out. Unsuppressed, he was able to explore his art and sexuality, all while launching his personal brand, Hey Rooney, a cheeky line of pastel illustrations that critique and celebrate queer sex trends—think a PG-13 Tom of Finland, spun through a cotton candy machine. Now 25, and in business for a year, Simmonds has seen his Instagram following (36,000 and counting at press time) help propel his success, which involves growing sales of Hey Rooney T-shirts and prints. “I hope to continue making things that challenge labels, but…

IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before the coloring-book craze and the fanfic trend got it on and gave birth to Mel Elliott’s sly, witty Colour Me Good series. Her first, featuring Ryan Gosling, came out some years ago, and she has since showcased James Franco, Taylor Swift, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Dornan, and most recently Eddie Redmayne. Find the star of The Danish Girl attempting to hypnotize a kitten, and then color in the results. Make up a new award to place in his oh-so-deserving hand. Or just draw yourself looking straight into his dreamy eyes. Yes, it’s pathetic, but no one’s watching. Colour Me Good Eddie Redmayne (I Love Mel, $13)…

Thanks to the New York Public Library’s tremendous LGBT photo archives, we’ve been given a glimpse of the luminaries who’ve shaped the queer movements of the 20th century. One such collection, from the International Gay Information Center archives, is “Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers,” a stunning cache of images by Robert Giard. As the evocative portraits show, Giard managed to capture a beautifully diverse spectrum of queer minds, from Quentin Crisp to Sapphire. Each photo features a different writer whose distinct contributions helped define his or her generation—and, by extension, our history.…

There was a time when it was important to wear your shorts short. In other, more conservative times, wearing them really long was suggested. Now designers are focusing on the width, as they did in the much cooler, less stressful 1990s. Wider cuts are dominating spring collections, meaning our gams will finally get some breathing room (a welcome respite from the snugness of the skinny jeans we’ve been sporting for what seems like an eternity). Michael Kors and Gucci have taken the long road, while Topman and Prada have opted to show a bit more leg. So take your pick, and be grateful it’s not “talk to the hand” that’s making a comeback.…

HER DAD IS reliably punctual, and the familiar Nintendo-like rings of his incoming Skype call start right on time. But the tea isn’t ready yet, so Emily Wells tells him she’ll call back in a few minutes. “Hi! Welcome home,” she says, when his pixelated image returns. Wells, a singer and composer who released her latest album, Promise, in January, is seated at the dining room table under a soaring ceiling in her Bushwick loft below a sign with FUCK scrawled in pink neon (she made it for her girlfriend, Samantha Nye, a visual artist). “This is great, just to be able to visit with Emily,” her father says from his couch in Indiana. Another moment of pleasantries and introductions, and then they are discussing scenes from their past that…

INFLUENCED by the skate scene and heavy metal, Melbourne artist Stephen Baker brings a minimalist’s approach to his art, taking urban landscapes, or something as familiar as a magazine cover, and abstracting them into striking geometric patterns. His subtle color palette—think pale pastels—helps to soften the bold lines, while creating an impression of stained-glass windows. Baker’s latest project involves painting directly onto magazine covers, where his matte paint contrasts pleasingly with the glossy stock. We invited him to add Out’s October 2015 cover of Julianne Moore and Ellen Page to his portfolio. StephenBakerStockroom.com…

AFTER EIGHT YEARS working as a womenswear designer, New York-based illustrator Justin Teodoro had a change of heart. In 2014, the Parsons graduate decided to go freelance and began posting his sketches on social media, amassing a growing following on Instagram (12,000 followers and counting). Thanks to his candid humor and encyclopedic knowledge of fashion (he favors the 1990s golden era of supermodels, and he’s a diehard Madonna fan), Teodoro has been tapped by big industry players, including Lorenzo Martone, who hired Teodoro to create art for his luxury bike line, Martone Cycling Co. More recently, Barneys New York invited Teodoro to conceive window designs and shopping bags for the store’s Japanese branches. Next, Teodoro plans to develop his own collection of illustrated tees, with his girl Madge as the…

“I think Kiki might’ve gone further if she’d had a little more voice training.”—Designer-stylist Patricia Field‘‘For another take on the reunited cabaret duo Kiki and Herb, see page 13. POP QUIZ! 1. In 2011, Anderson Cooper admitted to Jerry Seinfeld that he had never eaten . a. broken glass b. children c. waffles For more Cooper, see page 19 . 2. Throughout her life Amy Winehouse donated her money, music, and time to many charities, particularly those concerned with . a. broken glass b. children c. waffles For more Winehouse, see page 35 . 3. Iggy Pop, who often performs bare-chested, has also rolled around in , exposed himself to the audience, and vomited on stage. a. broken glass b. children c. waffles For more Pop, see…

Panti Bliss (known out of drag as Rory O’Neill) was a staple of Dublin’s gay scene long before last year, when she assumed the position of a tightly cinched equality warrior. With a wit capable of cutting homophobes down to size (while also spinning gays and allies into a politically fruitful frenzy), the self-proclaimed “national fucking treasure” became the face of Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum. On the high heels of both a book and a documentary in her home country, she shares what makes her nation’s capital so colorful. 1. SLICE “They offer freshly made deliciousness in the heart of Stoneybatter, one of Dublin’s ‘cool’ villages that locals know about but tourists don’t. The beans on toast is amazing, the eggs are some kind of dark magic, and if you’re…

It seems hardly possible that Meryl Meisler could make the kind of work today that animated her camera in the 1970s. Her scenes are so uncontrived, her subjects so guileless and natural as to evoke L.P. Hartley’s famous observation that “The past is foreign country: they do things differently there.” Meisler, who pivoted from photographing her Long Island community to shooting New York’s queer scene after she came out in 1975, fully captures the decade’s tawdriness and kitsch in some 35 black-and-white prints on display at the Steven Kasher Gallery, in Manhattan, until April 9.…

AS A YOUNG photographer in 1980s San Francisco, Catherine Opie became fascinated by the “X Portfolio,” Robert Mapplethorpe’s visceral portraits of bondage and sadomasochism. After making friends with a gallery owner who represented Mapplethorpe, Opie, a member of the S&M community, visited time after time to privately view the images. “I took lots of photographs throughout the ’80s, especially black-and-white photographs, and they were never really good enough. They just looked like Mapplethorpe photographs,” Opie says on a recent afternoon at her studio in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, the barn door of which is framed by a pair of orange trees, flung open, with roosters crowing in the background. In 1999, while fiddling around in the darkroom with some of those photographs, she selected detailed moments of…

SORRY, GRAMMAR nerds, but our ultra-digitalized world has led us to ditch basic language rules. Like it or not, the proliferation of hashtags has revolutionized the way we communicate. However, fashion brands have been slow to embrace the trending-topic potential. In a recent interview with Yahoo, the elusive Hedi Slimane, creative director of Saint Laurent, announced that the fashion industry has “not caught up” with the current pace of social media. It’s also struggling to find a way to reach an audience that consumes and discards collections as soon as they hit the runway, thus relying more on customers to act as the advertiser and popularize their favorite brands via likes and reposts. Some brands make this work. The success of Calvin Klein’s #mycalvins initiative, for instance, is built on…

THRIFT SHOPS are chockablock with Grandma’s old china. But Kris Aaron and Andy Walker, a Toronto-based design duo known as Pansy Ass, see these musty mementos as blank canvases for their hilarious, hand-painted, and very sex-positive art. They adorn old housewares with blow jobs, buttholes, and current catchphrases like “Bossy Bottom” and “Yass Kween”—written over the face of Queen Elizabeth. Partners in life and work, the boyfriends formed the company last year, fueled by a shared love of ceramics, kitsch, and sex. “Sexuality and gay culture are things of beauty,” Aaron says. “They should be displayed and cherished.” Their revamped knickknacks provide the modern homo with fun mantle candy, even if it prompts a little side-eye from the cleaning lady. Their favorite criticism came from Walker’s grandmother, who said, “It’s…

WHICHEVER WAY one leans these days (in or out), we can at least take satisfaction in the selection of handcrafted walnut mid-century-style credenzas that are popping up more and more in our interiors—a happy resting ground for our elbows. If a credenza doesn’t feel at home in your space, how about an Italian iron accent table, a vegetable-tanned woven leather chair, or an offset lithograph poster of Mark Rothko’s 1960 artwork Red, White and Brown? (Maybe don’t lean on that last one.) Whatever you choose, it’s becoming easier to find something handsome and well-made, thanks in part to the duo behind TRNK. Since 2014, the website has been stocking all of these items and more. Both a commerce and content destination, TRNK-NYC.com provides a community and a resource for modern-home…

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