COMING DISTRACTIONS: Later tonight I’ll probably post a very long exchange about coming out, complicity, and resistance; plus also, famous authors’ ill-advised text messages. Later this week I hope to have posts about what I mean by gay identity/”gay as a genre,” and possibly more on sublimation vs. repression. And, you know, whatever else staggers over the threshold.

Meanwhile, if you’re in the DC area I recommend Woolly Mammoth’s current show, “Gruesome Playground Injuries.” It’s very stylized and even gimmicky (it follows two best friends, at five-year intervals arranged out of chronological order, as they become progressively more injured and damaged) but I am always down for highly-stylized narratives as long as the emotions are resonant and real. This is a funny and wrenching play, and Tim Getman is especially good as the risk-taking, accident-prone Doug.