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Michael Quinn

Critical Influences

Michael Quinn

  • About/
  • Cultural Criticism/
    • Book Reviews
    • Quinn on Books
    • Gay Sensibility
  • Critical Influences/
  • Script Doctor/
  • Personal & Reported Essays/
  • Interviews/
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Critical Influences is a blog about things that interest me personally—exploring how being gay shapes how I see the world.

I’m a Brooklyn-based professional critic, essayist, and storyteller writing about books, film, fashion, and more.

This is the place where I play with ideas, trace the root of my obsessions, and connect the dots between culture and identity.

What stories—or obsessions—have shaped you?


July 07, 2025

Hauser at Radio City Music Hall: I Came for My Partner, I Stayed for the Feeling

July 07, 2025/ Michael Quinn
Hauser at Radio City Music Hall: I Came for My Partner, I Stayed for the Feeling

What started as a campy date night turned into something unexpectedly joyful—and strangely moving.

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