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Homonegativity in Eastern Europe As seen, homonegativity is framed quite differently in Eastern versus Western Europe. In the Western nations, having a homosexual neighbor is rarely seen as a problem. If it is, it tends to be grouped with other kinds of intolerance toward social groups that are “different” due to more-or-less stable characteristics, such as speaking a different language or practicing a different religion. In comparison, intolerance toward LGBT people in Eastern Europe is associated with perceptions of threat, failed morals, and the consequences of personal choice, as are heavy drinking, drug addiction, and AIDS infection.
Around the World in Eight Years Global Gay is the result of eight years Martel spent on “a long field survey conducted in more than 50 countries” spanning, in alphabetical order, Algeria to Vietnam. “More than 700 people were interviewed for the book, always face to face with the exception of only two telephone interviews.”
Transformational Verse Mosaic of the Dark reads like a memoir, with Lisa Dordal’s direct, insightful poems offering linked encounters from life. A member of the English faculty at Vanderbilt, Dordal published a book of poems titled Commemoration in 2012. Her poetic tales are plainly told, but they shed light on complex experience, including enduring loss, battling depression and grief, and coming to recognize and celebrate her lesbian self.
Rufus Wainwright Returns with Hadrian, an Opera FANS of the Canadian-American musician Rufus Wainwright have gotten to know him over the past two decades for his virtuosity as both a popular singer and a classical composer. By now, he has written hundreds of songs, … On the heels of his first opera, 2015’s Prima Donna, his second opera, Hadrian, will make its debut this fall at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. This interview was conducted by email exchange in early July.
You Will Be Humiliated Koestenbaum never speaks with divine omniscience, and yet we are given strange, fortune-cookie advice: “to redeem the hard-on/ like a flash in nobody’s/ pan” or “tickle the ‘retrieved’/ philosophical void fold.” He offers a Zen-like koans like “a boy can/ be a woman’s mother.” But mostly he prefers short, toneless, declarative, unpunctuated sentences. For example, we are informed that “ISIS beheaded a second/ American,” or “the red chair/ I bought my mother/ is broken,” or “I knew daisies differed/ from violet gentians.”
Interpretations of a Sexual Assualt Édouard Louis has become a literary sensation inside and outside his native France since his first novel, The End of Eddy, was published in 2015. … In History of Violence, Louis again creates a story that is both personal and social. His writing moves effortlessly between story and analysis.

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‘I just wanted to freeze a moment.’

THE WORLD knows him as Peter Berlin, but his real name is Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Heune. “Peter Berlin” was a stage name that he adopted upon arriving in San Francisco from Berlin, Germany, in the early 1970s—just in time to take advantage of the sexual revolution that was sweeping America. Acting as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer, his erotic self-portraits … were widely published, and Berlin became an iconic sex symbol and masturbation fantasy of the Gay Liberation era.
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