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Train Superfans Are Stopping Teens from Setting Fires on Subway Tracks
They are called "Railfans," and they are your new heroes.
When Prison Guards Force Inmates to Fight
That sort of brutal violence is just "part of doing time," one former federal prisoner says.
This Is What You Get When You Cross a Floating Island Mansion with a Pink Ball Sack
Video artist Jonathan Monaghan's striking Escape Pod fuses together all sorts of objects – human, animal, and other – that nature never intended.
'We Came to Sweat' Tells the Story of New York City's First Black-Owned Gay Club
We talked to filmmaker Kate Kunath about gentrification, queer spaces and the legacy of South Brooklyn gay club "Starlite".
Disco Apocalypse: Charles Atlas Films the End Times
"The world should end and then there should be a disco song," says video artist Charles Atlas.
A Haunted Townhouse of Art Ghosts on New York's Upper East Side
Alex Da Corte's latest large-scale installation is all about dementia, memory, and recontextualisation. It's also fucking terrifying.
The Confrontational, Contemporary Street Photography of Jonathan Auch
"There is an unspoken violence that exists in the way we treat each other on the streets in New York. Instead of trying to romanticise that, I'd rather show it plain."
A Female Sex Worker Compares Notes with a Gigolo
I hired a male counterpart to see what the other side of the transaction looks like.
My Bizarre Twitter Beef with Azealia Banks and Her Homophobia
The rapper's homophobic Twitter rant about me revealed how little she knows about gender and sexuality in 21st century America.
Resurrecting the Gay History of the Holocaust
Pacifico Silano's "Against Nature" explores an often overlooked and frequently overlooked period of LGBT history: the persecution of gay men by the Nazis.