Essays, Interviews & Exhibition Catalogues
Vider regularly contributes essays and interviews on LGBTQ history, popular culture, activism, and social welfare to newspapers and magazines.
He has also contributed writing on LGBTQ art and culture to exhibition catalogues for the Museum of the City of New York and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Essays
“A Supreme Court Case Poses a Threat to LGBTQ Foster Kids,” co-authored with David S. Byers, New York Times, June 5, 2021 (print edition June 8, 2021)
"Surrender Donald! A Queer Call to Action Since 1989," Slate, December 1, 2016
"Queer Homeless Youth, Queer Activism in Transition,” co-authored with David S. Byers, Slate, December 10, 2015
"Watching a Little TV for a Change," television in the Back to the Future trilogy, Avidly: a Los Angeles Review of Books channel, part of a six-part series, edited with Wendy Lee (Reprinted on Smithsonian.com), July 2015
"The Fosters Explores the Fear and Possibility of Queer Childhood," co-authored with David S. Byers, Slate, February 18, 2015
"A Half-Century of Conflict Over Attempts to ‘Cure’ Gay People," co-authored with David S. Byers, Time, February 12, 2015
"Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home," Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, November 6, 2014
"Why Is an Obscure 1968 Documentary in the Opening Credits of Transparent?": Frank Simon's The Queen and transgender history, Slate, October 24, 2014
"Nobody Steps on a Church in My Town!" Ghostbusters and New York, 30 years later, Avidly: a Los Angeles Review of Books channel, September 3, 2014
"Mmmm…brains: Night of the Living Jews is not just another Hasidic zombie movie," Nextbook, October 10, 2007
"American Mystic: Hyman Bloom rose to fame, and fell into obscurity, with his eerie paintings of rabbis, ghosts, and demons," Nextbook, February 28, 2007
“Riding Shotgun: Why does Deadwood‘s sheriff wear a star with six points?” Nextbook, May 18, 2005
"Survivor Challenge: Ten years after Jerry Seinfeld got caught necking during Schindler’s List, reverence for the Holocaust still makes Larry David squirm," Nextbook, March 26, 2004. (Reprinted in the New Jersey Jewish News)
"The F Word: Today’s special: Diet-guru crash course—with a side of celeb-chef comfort food," The Village Voice, January 27, 2004
Interviews
"You, Too, Can Make It Work: Teaching Tips from Tim Gunn, Mentor on Project Runway," New York Times, Education Life, February 1, 2013
“Picturing a Lesbian Feminist Household,” interview with photographer Cathy Cade, Outhistory.org, August 2015
Exhibition Catalogues
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, co-authored with Donald Albrecht, Skira Rizzoli, 2016, in conjunction with exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (2017 Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBTQ non-fiction)
“The Makings of Home,” essay in the exhibition catalogue for On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, curated by James Saslow, August–October 2015