One Night in Bangkok
FOLLOWING RAINBOWS The Fast Times and Fleeting Fames in Gay Bangkok’s Boy Soi by Mike Maloney Independently published 150 pages, $9.99 CHOOSING TO BE GAY One Man’s Improbable…More
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James Ivory Has a Lot of ‘All’ to Tell
MOST READERS of these pages will probably identify James Ivory as the director of those sumptuous film adaptations of E. M. Forster’s novels—Maurice, Howards End, A Room with a View. Some readers will also know that Ivory formed a decades-long personal and professional partnership with the Indian producer Ismail Merchant to make those films. Yet few readers may know about Ivory’s small-town-boy-makes-good story, or about how he has lived his life as an openly gay man for most of his ninety years, …
MoreStars That Went Out Last Year
IN KEEPING WITH our annual custom, we remember some people who left us during the past year—activists, writers, performers, educators, and artists who made a significant contribution to the LGBT community. They left this mortal coil at ages ranging from 28 to 94. All dates are in 2021 unless otherwise indicated.
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The Many Lives of Thomas Mann
Tóibín knows a thing or two about famous writers who were repressed homosexuals. Mann was not afraid to recount his furtive gay encounters in his journals.
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Breaking the ‘Second Silence’ on HIV
VETERAN ACTIVIST Peter Staley attained a new level of notoriety after appearing in David France’s Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague (2012). The film follows several key members of ACT UP as they perform various acts of political theater, from occupying the headquarters of a big pharma corporation to draping a giant condom over the house of notorious homophobe Jesse Helms.
MoreWhen C.A. Met Alfred, Part 1*
Tripp made a point of letting Kinsey know that he was homosexual and was writing a book on the subject (which became
The Homosexual Matrix).
Grant Wood Left Tipoffs All Over
In 1927, Arnold Pyle (1909–1973), one of Wood’s former students, became his assistant. Pyle was eighteen and Wood, 36. Good-looking, tall, athletic, with thick black hair, the heterosexual Pyle epitomized the type of man Wood continued to fall for, over and over, throughout his life.
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The Thing Not Named
Willa Cather aspired to the status of Artist while living with, and getting help from, a very intelligent woman (Edith Lewis) who had given up the arts to earn a living by selling soap.
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Chicago as the Paradigmatic City
NO ISSUE on “the Heartland” would be complete without an article on Chicago, undoubtedly the beating heart—or is it the brain?—of this vast expanse. With this realization, I immediately thought of John D’Emilio as the logical person to contact for a targeted tutorial on Chicago’s LGBT history and culture. A longtime contributor to this magazine …
MorePrelude to a Mary Meigs Biography?
Mary Meigs and Barbara Deming shared a preference for an austere life close to nature, and political involvement based on the principle of nonviolence.
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