Obsessions? Just a few more...

• The ongoing feud over Vertically-Aligned Nanotube Array (VANTA) Black

• The effects of Silicon Valley, social media, and tech company insanity

• Pre-Stonewall queer life (expertise: Victorian era, Pansy Craze, Harlem Renaissance through the 1940s)

• Hell-bent high school show choirs (personal experience)

• American urban nightlife (1880s-1940s), especially Chicago

• The Group... which then became The Trip, H.I.M. (Human Individual Metamorphosis), The Classroom, Total Overcomers Anonymous, Higher Source, Transfiguration Monastery of Renunciants in Readiness, Earth Exit Monasteries, The Away Team, and finally, after 23 years, Heaven’s Gate

• The life of Oscar Wilde’s frenemy Michael Field (who was actually two women—the most melodramatic two women you’ll ever meet)

• Astrophysics! Quantum physics!

• Newsboys and other sex workers on Times Square in the early 20th century

• Fencing

• What may be the first ever novel published with queer main characters where it’s no big deal and no one kills themselves in the end (1933)

• The contemporary high art world, with all its absurdity

• The awful Futurists, the idiotic Dadaists, and the stunning Surrealists

• Juan Hamilton v. the Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe

• 9/11 (I was in third grade)

• Kink communities

• The story behind the making of the most impossible soft-core porn, Pink Narcissus (1971) and the even more impossible figure behind it—James Bidgood

• The playwriting of Mae West

• Anita Ekberg (star of La Dolce Vita) and everything that led up to this picture of her:

...yet always more to come.