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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/

Sword and Shield

Text from the dance performance "Armide's Revenge", BALAM Dance company

Premiered February 3, 2011, Cool New York 2011 Dance Festival, John Ryan Theater

http://www.armidesrevenge.blogspot.com

You Hold On: a message to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth

October 10, 2010

www.youholdon.blogspot.com

Can't You Take A Joke?: On Tracy Morgan and Free Speech vs. Hate Speech

http://www.morgansjoke.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. His poem "Sword and Shield" was recently performed in the Cool New York 2011 Dance Festival. He lives in New York and is currently working on a novel.

Contact Max Gordon at maxgordon19@hotmail.com

Max Gordon is also a professional natal astrologer and psychic using the tarot. If you are interested in learning more about his practice and setting up your own private consultation, go to

www.natalastrology.blogspot.com

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Max Gordon - The Blues Sides
http://www.maxgordonphotography.blogspot.com/