Flipping Stereotypes
A View from the Bottom is part of Duke University’s “Perverse Modernities” series, and the book’s cover, depicting a pair of legs held aloft by two hands, makes it clear what the “bottom” in the title refers to.
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Identities in Play
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoirby Daisy HernándezBeacon Press. 185 pages, $24.95 I TEACH a course in multicultural studies to graduate students in counseling, and I’m…More
What a Picture Is Worth
In 1988, Haring was diagnosed with HIV, which only seemed to escalate his artistic output.
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What Diversity Looks Like
Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers Edited by Wendell Ricketts FourCats Press. 486 pages, $18.95 THE COMMERCIALIZATION and mainstreaming of gayness is very much on…More
Silent Partner
In Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist,
and the Politics of Gay Love in America, Terry Mutchler writes about the confusion of early courtship and the thrill of the consummation, about stealing a kiss in the darker corners of the capitol building.
Lined with Good Intentions
THE BASIC STORY of Namibia’s Rainbow Project is the impact of efforts by Western activists in Namibia after President Nujoma’s attacks on “gays, lesbian and common criminals,” which unleashed a wave of political homophobia from the mid-1990s on.
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Judicial Review
READING Walter Frank’s Law and the Gay Rights Story the same week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider several Circuit cases that upheld marriage equality has been a timely and satisfying coincidence.
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Capote’s Legacy on the Line
Understanding Truman Capote by Thomas Fahy University of South Carolina Press 186 pages, $39.90 IN THE FINAL PAGES of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s most popular book, there are…More
The Men of the World’s Oldest Profession
Male Sex Work and Society Edited by Victor Minichiello and John Scott Harrington Park Press. 512 pages, $50. ANY BOOK about male prostitution is bound to call to mind the…More
The Newport Sex Scandal Explained
Certainty is a brisk and compelling read, a history lesson without pain. It is literate without being fussily literary and gives us a Newport, Rhode Island, that Edith Wharton would not have recognized.
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