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Jamal Jordan

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Editor, Next Generation at The Washington Post

paper boi @washingtonpost | past: @nytimes @vice @nbcnews | very unserious | buy 📚QUEER LOVE IN COLOR (@penguinrandom 2021)

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  • Jun 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jamal Jordan

    A few years ago, while reporting my book “Queer Love in Color,” I posted a photo online of an older gay couple that I’d met. The image went viral, and one recurring comment stuck out to me: young queer people who said that they’d never seen an older gay man before. Queerness is often conflated with youth, but what does it mean for an entire population of people to not have any reflections of what life can be like as you age? Illustrations by Arantza Peña Popo.

  • Mar 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jamal Jordan

    NEW YORK — If you’ve never been to a rave before, it can be hard to understand exactly how music and the body can become one. This feeling is increasingly rare in an era of cellphone videos and the constant threat of ending up in the background of someone’s TikTok. But what I’ve learned is that if you give yourself to the music, the music will give back.

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