Nearly a decade into his career and Ecuadorian pop star Johann Vera is having his biggest year yet. Since coming out last August, the Latin heartthrob has celebrated and channeled his queerness into ...

In 1976, when I read “ Who’s Who in the Cast ,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which is what The New Yorker called its wry humor pieces—satirized a benign institution, ...