A collection of 5 posts
(Original version of this story published in ADAM 9/1988. The language used to describe trans folk reflects the language of the day, and in some instances I have made updates). Veronica re-examines the wild side of the city under...
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Margo St. James, mother of the modern sex workers’ rights movement, has died. She left the planet on January 11. 2021. This article describes the international gathering of sex workers at the European Parliament in Brussels that Margo organized with...
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Throughout the 1980’s I had a column in ADAM magazine called "Veronica Vera’s New York." Here’s one of the treasures from my archives. I look forward to sharing more with you from my past as well as...
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One picture is worth a thousand words, but some are worth many thousand and sometimes thousands of dollars. This story is of such a picture, a photograph by the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. When you look, you will see me, the...
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At fifteen Al Goldstein was a shy teenager who sent away for a book on how to kiss girls. He practiced technique on his own hand. At age 32, Goldstein created SCREW magazine, “the world’s greatest newspaper,” the sex...
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