Roman Holiday
Michael Mewshaw’s memoir of Gore Vidal opens like The Rocky Horror Picture Show: an innocent young couple in a vehicle are about to meet someone monstrous. Only in this case…More
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America through a Gay Glass, Darkly
Kramer is making the case that America from earliest times foreshadowed its response to AIDS, and indeed facilitated the development of AIDS.
MoreDoug Ireland’s Passion and Praxis
What follows is the introduction to a forthcoming collection of Doug Ireland’s essays, edited by the author of this piece, titled The Emperor Has No Clothes: Doug Ireland’s Radical…More
Lesbians, Please Leave the Stage!
The audacious French theater director André Antoine felt compelled to write to an author whose play he had accepted for production that he would have to cancel the performance.…More
In (Partial) Defense of Harry Hay
OSCAR WILDE characterized gay love as that “great affection … such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy. … It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as…More
All the Doomed Young Men
The Plaster Fabric by Martyn Goff Valancourt Books. 200 pages, $16.99 The Youngest Director by Martyn Goff Valancourt Books. 218 pages, $15.99 A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson…More
Christian Martyr, Pagan Witness
RADCLYFFE HALL’S The Well of Loneliness is the canonical lesbian novel that many people think they know; in some sense, it has become a part of queer folk culture.…More
‘Millions of Queers’: A View from 1940
RESEARCHER RANDALL SELL has uncovered a previously unknown 149-page manuscript defending homosexuality written in 1940. Allen Bernstein’s “Millions of Queers” is one of the earliest known defenses of homosexuality…More
Tennessee’s Small Circle of Friends
In his plays, Williams depicts writers who know each other socially as squabbling rivals, trading banter: Hemingway and Fitzgerald bicker in his Clothes for a Summer Hotel; and in…More
Flee, Flee This Sad Hotel
IT WAS A PROFILE that John Lahr published in The New Yorker that led him to this biography of Tennessee Williams—a profile of the Lady St. Just, an over-zealous friend…More