Love Lessons from Rufus Wainwright →

Rufus Wainwright’s new album, Out of the Game, arrives May 1, a velvet-wrapped gift for the weary, ill at ease, and lovesick. The acclaimed and versatile singer, whose nearly two-decade career includes soaring pop, opera, and covers of beloved standards, collaborated with celebrated producer Mark Ronson on this album of wry, forthright love songs. Wainwright, thirty-eight, has been out since his teens, and wears his sexuality as comfortably as his bespoke suits. Whether he sings about his fiance, Jörn Weisbrodt, or their baby daughter, his adoration for them is boundless as it is matter-of-fact. (read more)

Nerve Dating Poll: Who was your first crush? →

“Ah, the first crush. Few other firsts have the power to excite, humiliate, and create general angst like that one. So here at Nerve we were wondering, who was your first crush? Was it a classmate, a teacher, a friend’s sibling, a babysitter, or no one at all?” 

Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser →

A writer in a cocktail dress faces a pickup artist in a leisure suit, in an all-night battle royal. 

My dress was bright red, I was wearing an obscene amount of eyeliner, and I was surrounded by thumping music and flashing lights.

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