Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yes, and: neither is the botched treatment of these horrors by the university, which persists in arguing for its own righteousness. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In my bamboo green hat, I'm listening with joy to our students as we celebrate the publication of this year's _Mercer Street_, which honors New York University's finest undergraduate writing! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 26/09/2026September 23: Birthday flowers and vase from my loving man! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The chalk cliffs of Étretat: I walked for more miles than I could count and heard only the long vowels of the moo-cows and the sea slamming against the cliffs, as if it wanted to get in. 012
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026From the superb Walt Odets' 2019 _Out of the Shadows_: For a land almost entirely populated by immigrants, America is conspicuously intolerant of real diversity. Nine black-robed justices ultimately decide who can be in love with whom and how that love may be expressed. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A searing question from one of my New York University students today about Raoul Peck's 2016 film, _I Am Not Your Negro_: "Is James Baldwin a relative of Alec Baldwin?" And: after I stilled a powerful photograph of Harriet Tubman on the screen and asked, "Who is this?," not *one* student knew. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Sometimes, my dreams give me this kind of image. (A still from Jacob Adler's 2025 _Total Pixel Space_.) 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026August 30th: 25 years with Neil, the man I love--and a throng of flowers, too! 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The 25th anniversary: my current students at New York University seem disinterested in, estranged from, the events of 9/11. This essay looks at teaching on that day, on how futures lie hidden in the past—and deserve to be accounted for. brucebromley.substack.com/p/that-day 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Such joy to be nominated for a 2027 Best of the Net Award! A resounding, heartfelt thanks to _Rawhead Journal_! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A little dreamy and serious, while meeting with a superb student whom I hadn't seen for 10 years. She was the only female student at NYU's Clive Davis Institute. She's applying to doctoral programs connecting musicology, cultural studies, and American history. We need more connectors like her. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 08/08/2026About objects still behaving oddly--and that oracle in the window: brucebromley.substack.com/p/when-small... 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Something like love and like sex—off campus. “Out/In”: brucebromley.substack.com/p/outin 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Yes! "Beatrice amid the Rectangles": brucebromley.substack.com/p/beatrice-a... 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Ah, to live in a greener world than the flaming one that our kind has made. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 10/07/2026About those moments when objects behave oddly, if you look. brucebromley.substack.com/p/when-small... 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Peter Hujar's 1956 photograph of his lover, Joseph Raffael, when life was good and plentiful. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Here's Kae Tempest reading his poem, "Hold Your Own" (2014), which was a superb addition to the Polish series _Proud_ last night (episode 3) on HBO Max. Wonder upon wonder! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFyE... 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 24/06/2026For Pride: We know that this yearning to go back bewitches all who submit to it, that the past was never so uniform as its manufactured picture. We’re here to be made narrow and small and to vanish. But how can the unseen refuse their invisibility? brucebromley.substack.com/p/stay 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"The Fire House": in a nation and world where Pride is endangered, where we are endangered: "That's when Keith Haring appears to ascend from the floor, as if alive." brucebromley.substack.com/p/the-fire-h... 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Peter Hujar's 1970 poster for the first Pride Parade! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Katherine Bradford's paintings hold me up, in this time of American slop and decline and heartlessness. She's 84 years old and still going, dreaming, making. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 12/06/2026“I won’t be proportioned,” Mimi insists, “as though I were a lamb chop punitively over-trimmed": from "When Small Things Loom (1)," brucebromley.substack.com/p/when-small... 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 10/06/2026On the right, Paul Thek and some of his beauty in 1957! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Paul Thek and his visual longing in motion on the wall! 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Sergey Nabokov (1900-1945), Vladimir's gay and betrayed brother. How my heart aches for the life that could have been. 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"America teaches its gay citizens about submission, to be silent or die, though the one will forever be the sibling of the other." brucebromley.substack.com/p/guesting 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I am so proud of my students and of their capacity for making things with words: "We begin by naming in order to serve reality; we end by mistaking the name for reality itself. The category becomes easier to handle than the living thing, and so the living thing is quietly asked to become smaller. " 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Magritte, 1928: I've been moved by my students' evaluations: "I thank you deeply, Bruce. You are a great educator and a wonderful human. An excellent example of continuous growth, exploration, and awareness and that you don't have to become lame as fuck and out of touch after youth. " 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I dream of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: thermal energy that will outlast the current horrors of this nation and the citizens whose votes (willingly) made the horrors real. 020
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 25/04/2026From "Stay," first published in _Anti-Heroin Chic_: We know that this yearning to go back bewitches all who submit to it, that the past was never so uniform as its manufactured picture. brucebromley.substack.com/p/stay 010
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Roshi Joan Halifax: she and the Nomads Clinic bring caregivers to remote mountain villages in Nepal. Michael Pollan's new book details the problem: Been there, done that is the state to which most brains aspire. 011
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My essay, "We Won't Need Saving," just published in the superb _Rawhead_! Link: rawheadjournal.org/rawhe.../bru... It took me over a year to find a home for this essay. But I kept on trying. 120
Bruce Bromley @bdbiii.bsky.social · 05/04/2026My new essay, "Stay," just published in _Anti-Heroin Chic_! Link: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/stay-by... "I know that the affirmation of visibility converts you into a sort of footed fire." 010