Max Gordon is a writer and activist. His work is included in the anthologies Go the Way Your Blood Beats: an anthology of Lesbian and Gay fiction by African-American writers (Henry Holt, 1996) and Inside Separate Worlds: stories of young Blacks, Jews and Latinos (University of Michigan Press, 1991). He lives in New York.

His writing on openDemocracy includes There's something about outing Mary, from the forums.

Recent articles

The intimate embrace between photography, racism and violence revealed in the Abu Ghraib pictures reminds this New York writer of America’s shadow history, from lynching postcards to pornography. Can America find the courage to face its dark, secretive obsession with the dehumanising gaze?