How We Got the Rainbow
Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color by Gilbert Baker Chicago Review Press. 256 pages, $26.99 THERE’S ONE THING readers need to know before diving into Rainbow Warrior:…More
The Big Picture (in Pictures)
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown Ten Speed Press. 368 pages, $40. “QUEER HISTORY…More
What Ayn Rand Hoped You’d Miss
SET ASIDE how you feel personally about novelist Ayn Rand—perhaps you even went through a Rand phase in high school—but the fact is that she remains a force to…More
The Unknown Andrea Dworkin
Author’s Note: Most people know Andrea Dworkin as the radical feminist who launched a campaign against pornography in the 1980s and ’90s, but this is only one slice of…More
HBO’s Takedown of Michael Jackson
This documentary (Leaving Neverland) is tragic, riveting, and flawed. New challenges to its accounts have come out more recently, as construction documents reveal that a structure on Jackson’s property where [James] Safechuck claims to have been abused in 1992 was only built in 1994.
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A Singer-Songwriter to Watch Out For
If the vocals on Sing to Me Instead don’t give you the chills, you should see a doctor. On a twelve-track album that details numerous relationships, old and new, the strongest of the songs are “Ease My Mind” and “Grow As We Go.” The former, which dabbles in gospel music, allows [Ben] Platt to channel his inner Whitney Houston …
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Tim Miller’s Body Politic
Tim Miller, interviewed by John R. Killacky: QUEER artist-provocateur extraordinaire Tim Miller delights with the publication of A Body in the O (Wisconsin), featuring new stories and performance texts. Four decades into his singular career, Miller continues to mine autobiographical material to create politically charged, multidisciplinary theatrical works.
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Russell Cheney: An Artist in His Own Right
Cheney captured a bleak, stark side of New England, too. His darker paintings, among his best, may well have been a response to Matthiessen’s urging him to explore all of his life experiences.
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The Greek Inspiration for Modern Dance
A vast number of the innovators who helped to bridge the classical world and the modern world were either gay, lesbian, or bisexual, starting with Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, and Ida Rubenstein.
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Short Reviews
In this new volume, [Peter Ackroyd has] written a concise history of “gay London” over two millennia. He begins with Londonium, the Roman city at the northern extreme of the Empire, and continues chronologically up to recent times.
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