The piers were a world apart from the city, a place for initiations and new experiences, for experimentation and self-invention, for exhibition and for looking.
Queers defy the rules of history to create a place for themselves, which is to say, ourselves. We invent ourselves out of a past that, in most instances, did not invite or anticipate us.
A certain level of cognitive dissonance is required to enjoy the Whitney Museum's long-awaited retrospective of the restless oeuvre of downtown writer, artist, and iconoclast David Wojnarowicz…