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Aging, Friendships, Loneliness, Daddiness, Monogamy, Open Relationships: Let's Go Deep with a Gay NYC Therapist
I talked for three hours with Belgian-born Jean Malpas, 48, who has worked with countless NYC gay men as individuals and couples the past 20+ years.
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Tim Murphy
You Can Expect My Next Caftan Interview April 21-22
Eleventh-hour cancellation left me scrambling for a moment.
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Tim Murphy

March 2024

Legendary Beauty Brad Gooch On His New Keith Haring Bio and On Fathering Two Little Boys at 72
His Haring biography reconstructs in vivid detail 1980s NYC—a frenetic decade of staggering loss, including of Gooch's own lover.
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Tim Murphy
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February 2024

Stephen McCauley's New Novel Is "You Only Call When You're in Trouble." So I Decided to Call Him.
The modern-day gay Jane Austen, who debuted with "The Object Of My Affection," has an eighth novel out—perhaps his deepest so far.
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Tim Murphy

January 2024

Jockstraps, Harnesses and Union Suits: The CEO of Nasty Pig Talks About How They Went from Pariahs to Popular Girls
"We had a note taped to our store door accusing us of spreading AIDS," recalls David Lauterstein, who created a gay slutwear empire with husband Fred…
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Tim Murphy

December 2023

Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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Tim Murphy
Year-End Interview: Following Up with Porn Legend Tom Chase, My Most Popular Interview So Far
He was also my personal favorite interview so far, so I asked him to do another one to close out 2023. And he didn't disappoint. (It gets graphic.)
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Tim Murphy

November 2023

The Sexiness and Sophistication That Was the 1968-1983 NYC Magazine "After Dark"
Not only did I get a chance to photograph a massive collection of the rag where gay culture and sex collided in 1970s Gotham...I talked to one of its…
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October 2023

BD Wong's Knitting Iced-Coffee Days and Semi-Sleepless Nights
The first Asian actor to win a Tony, best known for "Law and Order," is creating his own projects, has a much younger husband...and doesn't want your…
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September 2023

Artist Jack Walls Survived His Boyfriend, Robert Mapplethorpe—and All the Haters, Too
Here's my (sometimes touchy!) talk with the man who says people thought he'd die, too, of heroin or AIDS. They were wrong.
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Tim Murphy
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August 2023

"My Fabulous Disease" Writer Mark S. King On His New Book, Surviving HIV and Meth, and That Night He Had Sex with Rock Hudson
For two decades, the Atlanta-based HIV longtimer has been putting all his shit out there with funny, unsparing honesty—and has built a massive…
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July 2023

Porn Kingpin Michael Lucas Doesn't Seem Very Excited About Porn Anymore
The controversial entrepreneur talks about advising young gays against the adult biz, why he loves the U.S.,and learning to relax after working hard to…
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Tim Murphy
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