‘Marriage is an engine of advancement’
OVER the last thirty years, Evan Wolfson has been everywhere fighting the good fight for GLBT equality.
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‘Affirm who you feel you really are.’
Martin Duberman shares his thoughts about the state of gay politics and reminisced about those heady days in the 60s and 70s when various social movements took on the status quo and paved the way for the gay rights struggle.
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‘Who can possibly step into his shoes?’
Gore Vidal is Nicholas wrathall’s second documentary, and he has been a producer of several films since 1999. This interview was conducted via e-mail by the GLR editor in late June.
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‘Ratzinger … had to be the one.’
Daniel Gawthrop doesn’t make any secret about where he stands. in his new book, The Trial of Pope Benedict
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‘I concluded that I owe her awe.’
Lillian Faderman is our great historian, and her books opened the closet door to the rich, troubled history of lesbians.
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‘About the inner sanctum of the self’
Tóibín’s prose style has been described as “daring and precise,” “austere,” “lyrical,” “reticent,” and even “monkish.”
MoreVisual Art for an Invisible Subculture
IN 2012, a Cuban friend who is an accomplished gay artist was able to visit the United States for the first time for a few months. Because Americans generally get their impressions of Cuba from either government propaganda or leftist sympathizers of the Cuban regime, I wanted to get the views of a nonpartisan independent Cuban with no particular axe to grind. I asked him to discuss life in Cuba near the end of his visit. For security reasons, he cannot be further identified. …
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Ed Koch, the Ambiguously Gay Mayor
IT WAS certainly intriguing to read the obituaries of Ed Koch, the famous former mayor of New York, who passed away at 88 on February 1. Most mainstream papers were coy about a fact that almost everyone knew-that Koch was gay-while some noted that he had remained a bachelor his whole life and had no children. …
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“Writing is emotional and mysterious.”
AUTHOR of thirteen books, a play, a libretto for a dance opera, and several cut-and-paste novels, Seattle-based Rebecca Brown has been dubbed “the greatest secret of American letters” by literary bad boy Dale Peck.
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On the Return of Virginia Woolf
… At 84, Albee is notoriously cagey during interviews, and enjoys a good game of cat-and-mouse, sometimes craftily switching roles with the interviewer. I spoke to the playwright shortly before the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway on October 13th-fifty years to the day of its première …
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