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ART FAG MAG – Christopher Schulz and I met at the Chelsea Art Book Fair. He was toting copies of his wordless magazine PINUPS in a vintage Louis Vuitton zip-up portfolio. I’d seen him around and had heard about PINUPS from friends. He seemed aloof and uninterested in meeting me. But somehow I convinced him to do an interview. It seemed fitting to meet at Nowhere Bar, where PINUPS launched earlier this year. I wasn’t expecting to find him so affable and forthcoming, but after one margarita on the rocks and little Beyonce on the jukebox he had me hooked.– ANTONIO CERNA More… »

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) ended last week, and I sat down with playwright Howard Walters (Extra Virgin) and executive producer Brandi Bravo to discuss their latest work. ‘Chaser‘ tells the story of two gay men on their first date. Dominick is HIV-positive. Val is negative. Both are lonely and desperate for intimacy. So how far will Val go to keep Dominick? Let’s ask the writer. — ANTONIO CERNA More… »

FULL DISCLOSURE: Not only is Manuel Muñoz a good friend of mine, he’s a brilliant writer. We traded emails with Muñoz recently. He has a new collection of short stories out, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue. Before going off to Harvard and Cornell, Muñoz grew up in a small blue-collar town you’ve never heard of in southern California. I say this because his work often chronicles the complex four-way intersection of Chicano and Latino and Literary and Gay — and because he has been both shunned and lauded for tackling those unseemly hush-hush subjects. As we expected, Muñoz’s responses are both engaging and thoughtful — if not thorough. We discuss what it means to be a gay writer anymore — or a Latino writer — or a Chicano writer who happens to be gay — or any and none of the above. – ANTONIO CERNA

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