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Gender and desire are inextricably linked when it comes to fetish and fantasy, politics and personal attraction. When I began working as a professional dominatrix in the 2000s, I saw many clients who wanted to be “forced feminized” — i.e. transformed into sissies in lacy underwear and bubblegum-flavored lipgloss. In …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A bar, just like a stage, can be a sanctuary. A refuge where comfort comes from the familiar. Bruce Springsteen, Stone Pony regular. A moniker first stamped in …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Hootie & the Blowfish kick off their 2024 Summer Camp With Trucks Tour on May 30, but in March 2008, the Nineties rock band whose debut album, Cracked …

Owen Elliot-Kugell was just seven years old when her mother, “Mama” Cass Elliot, died of a heart attack in 1974. Since then, she’s tried to untangle the myth of the hippie icon — especially the insensitive rumor that she died choking on a ham sandwich — and discover who she …

What are American guns doing in Mexico? This question first came to me nearly a decade ago while working as an EMT treating wounded migrants who were risking their lives trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. I wanted to understand what role high-powered weapons, easily bought in the U.S., played …

‘Orgasm is a good comparison, but there aren’t really any words for that feeling,” is how Art Williams described the first time he counterfeited to Rolling Stone back in 2005. A heavily disadvantaged, gifted kid from Chicago’s South Side, he learned the age-old criminal craft from his mother’s boyfriend, then …

Almost immediately after its founding in 1955, the Village Voice became the most raucous, irreverent and important alternative newspaper in America. At one point the Voice was the most read weekly in the country, serving as Andy Warhol put it “the entire liberal thinking world.” In her excellent new book …

In 2017, I ended my marriage of almost 12 years. It wasn’t one big betrayal. No one was a villain, not really. What happened was the oppressive weight of being a wife and mother and the burden of heterosexual marriage broke me. Three years later, in 2020, I realized I …

Media reporting, including my own, often relies on anonymous sourcing. The guarantee of confidentiality is sometimes the only way to gain inside information. But not this time — not with Fox News. The groundbreaking Dominion v. Fox lawsuit forced thousands of pages of texts and emails into the public domain. …

Inthe spring of1990, Tupac Shakur was shuttling between Marin City and Oakland, California, restlessly seeking his future. His manager, Atron Gregory, was shopping his demo tape but with little success so far. Meanwhile, activism beckoned. Friends of his mother, the former Black Panther revolutionary Afeni Shakur, had engaged Tupac to …