Margaret Vandenburg

Jan 2, 2025 | glreview.org | Margaret Vandenburg

Published in: January-February 2025 issue. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, New York City was one of several U.S. cities that was in the midst of what has come to be known as the “Pansy Craze”—George Chauncey’s coinage in Gay New York—or what I prefer to call the “Queer Craze.” To be sure, as a cultural phenomenon, the Craze was short-lived. After the Roaring Twenties there followed a backlash not unlike the one that MAGA and alt-right conservatives are mounting against today’s LGBT communities.

Oct 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Margaret Vandenburg

It’s the roaring ´20s in New York City, and art critic Henrietta “Henri” Adams has landed a new job as a journalist for New World Art magazine, thanks to a letter of introduction from Ernest Hemingway. By day, Henri blends in with her binary-dominated job, wearing skirts and blouses, but at night, she explores the speakeasies of Manhattan as a suited dagger with her cohort, Crystal, a drag queen and expert on all things to do with fashion and underground protocol.