May 22, 2013

THE OTHER SLANT: Eco-Strategist Majora Carter Calls Her New York Times Profile Racist and Sexist

When The New York Times contacted Majora Carter, the award-winning eco-strategist from the South Bronx, she was excited. “I thought it was going to be a story about real issues: food access, economic wellbeing and the health of our community,” Carter told The Slant in an exclusive interview last month. Instead, when she read the April… Read More

Apr 19, 2013

THE METHOD: Inside the Celebrity Interview with Kevin Sessums

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Kevin Sessums, the celebrity journalist, has smoked a joint with Heath Ledger in Prague; he’s sparred with Barry Diller; he’s even been scolded by Barbra Streisand for not mentioning how “fuckable” she is in a story he once wrote for Vanity Fair. But nothing rivals his tête-à-tête with Courtney Love: She kept me waiting for… Read More

Mar 05, 2013

THE METHOD: The Advocate’s Editor-in-Chief on Jodie Foster’s “Coming Out” Speech, Gays Who Oppose Marriage and the LGBT Movement’s Next Big Battle: Transgender Rights

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When Matthew Breen, the editor-in-chief of the 45-year-old LGBT magazine, The Advocate, came out to his parents in 1995, Ellen DeGeneres was still in the closet, Clinton’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy was in full swing and “gay marriage” was laughably unforeseeable. Despite the unwelcoming climate, the handsome 21-year-old mustered up just enough courage… Read More

Jan 31, 2013

THE OTHER SLANT: Paul Schrader Challenges the New York Times Magazine’s Spin on His Hiring, Almost Firing, and Making a Movie with Lindsay Lohan

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Imagine writer-director Paul Schrader’s delight when The New York Times Magazine, the bastion of cultural taste and respectability, called to write a piece about his latest directorial effort, The Canyons. Despite having penned cinematic classics like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, Schrader’s signature flicks–those beautiful meditations on misfits (vigilantes, gigolos,… Read More

AND FURTHERMORE: Queer Historian Martin Duberman on Stonewall & His New Book

THE OTHER SLANT: Eco-Strategist Majora Carter Calls Her New York Times Profile Racist and Sexist

THE METHOD: Inside the Celebrity Interview with Kevin Sessums

THE METHOD: The Advocate’s Editor-in-Chief on Jodie Foster’s “Coming Out” Speech, Gays Who Oppose Marriage and the LGBT Movement’s Next Big Battle: Transgender Rights

THE OTHER SLANT: Paul Schrader Challenges the New York Times Magazine’s Spin on His Hiring, Almost Firing, and Making a Movie with Lindsay Lohan