Photography by Eleanor Bentall

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On this site you will find the following essays:

Abu Ghraib: Postcards From the Edge
October 14, 2004, openDemocracy
January, 2005, revista Debate (in Spanish)*
http://www.postcardsedge.blogspot.com/

There's Something About Outing Mary
October 21, 2004, openDemocracy
http://www.outingmary.blogspot.com/

Good Morning, Heartache
November 11, 2004, openDemocracy
Election Blog 2004, Truthout
http://www.morningheartache.blogspot.com/

George W. Bush's Iraq War Freedom Cake
August 29, 2004
http://www.recipeforwar.blogspot.com/

An Open Letter to Paul Wellstone
September 10, 2004
July 14, 2005, Commentary Slam, The Brian Lehrer Show (audio clip)
September 1, 2005, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
http://www.lettertowellstone.blogspot.com/

Jesusland
December 7, 2004, Democratic Underground
January 2005, The Bottom Line*
February 2005, Times .10
April 21, 2005, Outlook Weekly*
May 2005, Gay Times*
June 2005, Political Affairs
March 2006, Antithesis Common Literary Magazine
www,americaforjesusland.blogspot.com

Bringing Down the Hope: Condoleezza Rice, Black Capitalism and War
January 6, 2005, Democratic Underground
February 2005, Z Magazine*
http://www.bringingdownhope.blogspot.com/

Martha X: The Radicalization of Martha Stewart
January 5, 2005, Democratic Underground
http://www.marthax.blogspot.com/

That's Entertainment: Oprah, Eminem, and Homophobic Representations in American Media
February 8, 2005, Democratic Underground
February 13, 2005, Snap Magazine Online
http://www.oprahentertainment.blogspot.com/

Michael
August 24, 2005, Snap Magazine
http://www.memoriesofmichael.blogspot.com/

Watchers and Witnesses: Oprah, Zora and James
http://www.watchersandwitnesses.blogspot.com/

The Possibilities of Pleasure: Why I Feel Like Getting High Tonight
http://www.possiblepleasure.blogspot.com/

Wonder Woman vs. George Bush
July 2, 2005 - Democratic Underground
(as an excerpt entitled "Father Knows Best")
http://www.wonderwomanvsgeorgewbush.blogspot.com/

In This Moment: A Brief Response to Katrina
September 23, 2005 - (from the In This Moment series on Boyan's Blog - Published by the English Majors' Office at Brooklyn College)
http://www.katrinamoment.blogspot.com/

This Hostile World
June 12, 2007
http://www.hostileworld.blogspot.com/


FROM MAX'S COLUMN AT SAPIENCE MAGAZINE:

June 2005 - It's A Family Affair
http://www.familyatsapience.blogspot.com/

July 2005 - Help Me I Think I'm Falling:
Finding A Way Out of Despair When You Are Black and Gay
http://www.fallingatsapience.blogspot.com/

August 2005 - Strange Fruits: Bille, Bessie, Bayard, Baldwin and Basquiat - Art, Anger and the Search for a Black Gay Aesthetic
http://www.artatsapience.blogspot.com/

December 2005 - Why the Hell Am I Still Alone: Getting Serious About Serious Gay Relationships
http://www.aloneatsapience.blogspot.com/

January 2006 - US: On Black Gay Men, Masculinity and Our Fathers
http://www.usatsapience.blogspot.com/

February 2006 - Racism: If They Won't Change, Change Your Mind
http://www.changeatsapience.blogspot.com/

March 2006 - Audre
http://www.lordeatsapience.blogspot.com/

April 2006 - Porn
http://www.pornatsapience.blogspot.com/

June 2006 - Addiction, A Gay Perspective (unpublished issue)
http://www.addictionatsapience.blogspot.com/


Audio - Max's comments on Brokeback Mountain (The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC - call in)
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/01182006


(if you scroll down to the end of each essay, you will find a link, whenever possible, to where it appeared online. Some online sites require a subscription. An asterisk designates that a piece was slightly different when published in print than the version that appeared online.)


Not available here:

A History of Survival, Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews and Latinos, ed. David Schoem, University of Michigan Press, 1991

Babylon, Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of African-American Lesbian and Gay Fiction, Ed. Shawn Stewart Ruff , Henry Holt, 1996

Couples: A Photographic Documentary of Gay and Lesbian Relationships, John Gettings, University of New England Press, 1996


Max Gordon is a writer and activist. He has been published in the anthologies Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews and Latinos (University of Michigan Press, 1991), Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of African-American Lesbian and Gay Fiction (Henry Holt, 1996) and Mixed Messages: An Anthology of Literature to Benefit Hospice and Cancer Causes. His work has also appeared on openDemocracy, Democratic Underground and Truthout, in Z Magazine, Gay Times, Sapience, and other progressive on-line and print magazines in the U.S. and internationally, as well as in translation. He lives in New York and is currently working on a novel.

Contact Max Gordon at star1power@aol.com

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For more pictures including Max's dog Kaija click here:
Max Gordon - The Blues Sides
http://www.maxgordonphotography.blogspot.com/