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Emily Dickinson’s Smoking Poems

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By Wendy Fenwick on November 13, 2015

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  • The Radicalization of Langston Hughes
  • Working Out
  • A Portrait in Melancholy
  • In With the Worldly Set
  • The Lure of the Gay Gene
  • How ‘Sex’ Undid John Money
  • The Case for Optimism
  • Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2015
  • BTW
  • GOP Leaders Flock to ‘Kill the Gays’ Preacher
  • Letters to the Editor
  • ‘Homonormativity’ and Its Discontents
  • Living the Art
  • Lesbian Sculptors as Expat Abolitionists
  • Gay Advertising Goes Mainstream: Now What?
  • Erotica
  • Two Speeches from the Democratic National Convention
  • An HIV Policy that Saved Lives
  • Media Year: 2003 in Pictures
  • Emily Dickinson’s Smoking Poems
  • Wrestling with Greco-Roman Mores
  • Cuba: How Real Is the Thaw?
  • Sidney Abbott: Sappho’s ‘Right-On Woman’
  • Takes on News of the Day
  • Reader’s Thought
  • A Cinematic Trend Emerges: ‘Gays Gone Bad’
  • Boyd McDonald’s Eye for Innuendo
  • How Horror Thwarted ‘The Code’
  • Sex and Subtext in Tolkien’s World
  • “Harness My Zebras!”
  • In Mumbai, a Community Struggling to Be Born
  • What Makes an Economist Great?
  • Keeper of the Dead
  • The Secret Life of Action Films
  • Baldwin the Shape-Shifter
  • Poet of Desire
  • That Last Recovery
  • N.Y. Showroom Models at Work and Play
  • SWM Looking for Same
  • Back Story of a Closely Watched Career
  • Short Reviews
  • Another Hat for Warhol: Book Illustrator
  • Where Bishop Landed
  • Sartorial Styles of the Counterculture
  • Four Ways to Be Gay
  • More ‘Monsters’ and Memories
  • Proust’s Way Home
  • Obergefell Ruling Goes Beyond Gay Marriage
  • Readers’ Thought
  • Ronnie Gilbert, A Woman of Courage, Dies at 88
  • BTW
  • What’s New Is How We View
  • Lillian Faderman Tells the Gay Story to Date
  • The Stained Glass Closet
  • Tóibín’s Connection to Bishop: Silence
  • Homo Politicus
  • The Company He Kept Company
  • Meditations of a Freudian Philosopher
  • Life of a Poet, Friend, Ventriloquist
  • The Earnest Generation
  • The Killer with Something Extra
  • Short Reviews
  • Alexander’s Persian Side
  • A Week in the Life
  • The Tears in Mortal Things
  • Doin’ What Came Naturally
  • Almost Revolutionary
  • Unfinished Business
  • Make Me Over, or Ripley at Midnight
  • Notes on Porn
  • The Philadelphia Phenomenon
  • Contemplating the Navel
  • The Eccentricities of a Blue Dove
  • ‘I just want them to take the journey.’
  • Short Reviews
  • The Writer’s Journey to Harry Hay
  • That Trip Did Her Good
  • All Sides of a Triangle
  • Kenneth Anger, Director: Fireworks at Sixty
  • Stonewall Communities Breaking Ground in Boston
  • Claude Cahun’s Mirror in the Lens
  • Letting Down Appearances
  • Arts Briefs
  • If the World Were Walt’s
  • Mama’s Boy Gets Big
  • The Grand Hostel
  • Brainstorming a Movement
  • The Poetry of Connection
  • Wonder Woman’s Hidden Agenda
  • The Novel as Magic Act
  • Woman + Woman = Enlightenment
  • What Was Forster Thinking?
  • Life As a Sonic Boom
  • Who Was That Woman in the Pines?
  • BTW
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Ireland Sends a Message to the World
  • Out, Outed, Ousted
  • The Remains of the Night
  • Come Through for Me
  • Illusions Lost and Found
  • At the Hidden Core of the Big Apple
  • The Hijacking of Lesbian History
  • Under the Fashion Juggernaut
  • The Price of Going Mainstream
  • Roman Holiday
  • Doug Ireland’s Passion and Praxis
  • America through a Gay Glass, Darkly
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Therapists: Declare ‘Ex-Gay Therapy’ Unethical
  • Lesbians, Please Leave the Stage!
  • Malcolm Boyd, 1923-2015: A Personal Reflection
  • James Baldwin Comes Alive in Film Classic
  • Jamie Brickhouse Remembers Mama
  • Coming Out Twice: Gay and Asian in the UK
  • BTW
  • Short Reviews
  • Loving in Triangles
  • Before There Was Mapplethorpe
  • The Bisexual’s Dilemma
  • Visceral Reactions
  • It’s Not About the Music
  • A Married Man in the ’60s
  • After Them, the Déluge
  • A Novel about Writing a Novel
  • Song of a Social Butterfly
  • Slipping Glimpse of the Narrative Eye
  • The Truman Show
  • Does Marriage Matter?
  • LGBT History 101
  • Tune In, Drop Out
  • Jesus’ Penis and the Seed of Faith
  • The Codpiece: Life and Times
  • Filling the Void in Lesbian Art
  • A Family in Exile, A Poet in the Making
  • An English Martyr
  • The Many Genders of Old India
  • Why Gay Ghettos Are Breaking Up
  • The Mainstreaming of Marriage Equality
  • The Moons of Libido
  • Excavations from a British Century
  • A Scot on the Rocks
  • What a Picture Is Worth
  • Identities in Play
  • Flipping Stereotypes
  • Legally Male
  • An Oasis of Freedom Grows in Burma
  • Secrets of the Met, Hanging in Plain Sight
  • It Shouldn’t Be So Hard to Be a Queer Atheist
  • The Agony of Victory
  • The Seagram: New York’s Gayest Building
  • Ryan Landry of the ‘Make ’Em Laugh’ School
  • Leslie Feinberg Beheld a World without Gender
  • Grant Wood’s Glimmerglass Surprise
  • BTW
  • Letters to the Editor
  • BTW
  • Random Acts of Kindness
  • The Revolution Was Photographed
  • What Diversity Looks Like
  • Judicial Review
  • Lined with Good Intentions
  • Silent Partner
  • Short Reviews
  • The Newport Sex Scandal Explained
  • The Men of the World’s Oldest Profession
  • Capote’s Legacy on the Line
  • Bill T. Jones and the Birth of Story/Time
  • Mike Hadreas Is Perfume Genius
  • Life and Lesbian Pulp in Postwar America
  • Millions of Queers (Our Homo America)
  • In Search of Elizabeth Bishop
  • Grow Up! Joan Rivers Had to Leave Us One Day
  • Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2014
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • All the Doomed Young Men
  • In (Partial) Defense of Harry Hay
  • ‘Millions of Queers’: A View from 1940
  • Christian Martyr, Pagan Witness
  • Tennessee’s Small Circle of Friends
  • Sexual Freedom and the Classical Ideal
  • Flee, Flee This Sad Hotel
  • Outing the Stars of Yesteryear
  • At the Heart of a Bay Area Revival
  • Up from Mormonism
  • Short Reviews
  • Tales of Two Artists in Mid-Century Paris
  • Murder as Mission
  • One Road to Fatherhood
  • Interwar Paris Encore
  • Men and ‘Melancholia’
  • Tell Your Subordinates!
  • Out of the Capsule
  • Addressing James Baldwin
  • Father of Anxiety
  • Lowering Our Sights
  • Secret Service
  • Our Kind of Town
  • Frida’s Wounded Body and Soul
  • Nancy Garden, Pioneer of Young Adult Fiction
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • The Sloth of Sadness
  • A Single Man We Can Relate To
  • The Baldwin of Giovanni’s Room
  • Mary Renault as the First Gay Novelist
  • That Scene in The City and the Pillar
  • Gore Vidal’s Shot across the Bow
  • Why We Wished at The Well of Loneliness
  • The Case for The Well of Loneliness
  • Proust’s Search for Things to Come
  • While Maurice Slept
  • Forster’s Maurice and the Birth of a Genre
  • How Gay Was Dorian Gray?
  • The Man Who Was Dorian Gray
  • South Korean Group Creates a Literary Award
  • Saints and Sinners Do New Orleans
  • BTW
  • A 1967 Novel Brought an Old Love to Light
  • On the Poetry of Unrequited Love
  • Wider PrEP Use Could Reduce HIV Infections
  • Hobby Lobby Ruling Torpedoes ENDA Bill
  • Marriage Regained
  • Music Briefs
  • Cabaret Just Keeps Getting Zanier
  • Husbands and Other Lovers
  • The Faces of Vernon Lee
  • Animal Magnetism
  • Baltic Country Blues
  • The Vulnerability of a Poet
  • Short Reviews
  • Poetry of the Personal and the Political
  • Traces of an Artist Who Died Young
  • Women in Love
  • Apostle of Sodomy, Einstein of Sex
  • HIV Activism in the Age of PrEP
  • Male Sex Work in Modern Times
  • Down There on a Visit
  • Grindr’s Lonely Crowd
  • Legacies of the Sexual Revolution
  • Forster Without Maurice (still gay)
  • Soon the Spotted People
  • We Interrupt This Family Drama…
  • Faces of South Africa in the Berkshires
  • Stop the Violence!
  • The Roots of Another
  • Hiroshima Imprints
  • A Life in the Laugh Track
  • When the Musical Stopped
  • Feeling Married
  • Cryptic Plumage
  • For the Love of Zines
  • A Woman with a Plan
  • A Life of Alternative Paths
  • A Rocker from the Age of Punk
  • Bright Lights, Dark Days
  • Slipping Beauty Past the Soviet Censors
  • A Voice You May Remember
  • Choreographer David Roussève Is Out with Stardust
  • Edward Field’s Magical Movie Moments
  • Lou Reed (1942–2013) Under Ground
  • RIP Fred Phelps (1929–2014)
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Why Russia’s Anti-Gay Backlash Will Backfire
  • Homologous Tales of the Near East
  • More Adventures of a Gay Roué
  • Cuban Agonistes
  • Ruling in India Not the Last Word
  • Witness to a Genocide in the Making
  • Michael Carroll’s Characters Tell Their Stories
  • Peter Paige and the Making of The Fosters
  • The Poster That ‘Normalized’ Gay Sex
  • BTW
  • Reader’s Thoughts
  • How U.S. Evangelicals Sowed Hatred in Uganda
  • Close Encounters of the Unexpected Kind
  • The World According to Grindr
  • Glimpses of Moments Unseen
  • Czechoslovakia Unbound
  • Ask a Poet
  • The Miracle of Me
  • Living in the Levant
  • Who Shot Jenny Bonnett?
  • Sagas of the City
  • Mightier Than the Sword
  • Intergenerational Memoirs
  • Short Reviews
  • The Kitty Genovese Murder Revisited
  • A Gay Writer’s Turn in Paris
  • A Sexuality of One
  • Blink and You’ve Missed Him
  • Glenway Wescott’s World
  • Are ‘The Monologues’ Transphobic?
  • Why Roger Casement Still Haunts Us
  • Asking the Musical Questions
  • ‘Always a Godfather, Never a God’
  • If Dorian Had Lived…
  • Notes on Camp – and Anti-Camp
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Mandela Eulogies Ignored His GLBT Activism
  • Elton Discovers Mortality
  • Short Reviews
  • Who Made Those Fabulous Duds?
  • No Commies, Jews, or Gays
  • A ‘Real’ Marriage, After All
  • If Aschenbach Returned…
  • A Conjectural Romp across Art History
  • Living Consciously in the Berkshires
  • The Splendid, Drunken van Vechten
  • Lenny’s Letters on Display
  • Prisoners of Culture
  • Being There in the Age of AIDS
  • Truth and Reconciliation
  • James Purdy’s World of Extremes
  • The Lives and Times of Harry Chess
  • Vampires Are Us
  • Drag Kings by Any Other Name
  • The Shame of Atlanta Pride
  • Reflections on Swann’s Way at 100
  • ‘There are a lot of lovely ghosts there.’
  • A Moment with May Sarton
  • Rainbow Over Sochi
  • Joshua Sanchez: On Making the Movie Four
  • Saudi Arabia: Shari’a Law Meets Reality
  • A Glad Day
  • BTW
  • BTW
  • John Mitzel: Writer, Bookseller, Boston Institution
  • Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2013
  • Letters to the Editor
  • … Not That She Ever Went Away
  • Something for Everyone from France
  • Clan on the Run
  • 500 Ways to Get Off
  • Far from the Sex Police
  • Chartreuse Acres
  • Liplocking for Guinness
  • Of Two Minds
  • The Banality of Panic
  • The Complicated Miss Garbo
  • Monuments and Myths
  • The Love Songs of Amy Lowell
  • Short Reviews
  • Why Are We Here?
  • An Irish Novelist Lands in New York
  • How Straight Could Kafka Have Been?
  • The Ambidexterity of a Musician
  • My Stroke
  • ‘Marriage is an engine of advancement’
  • On Being Drafted
  • Thirty Years of HIV Research
  • The Front Runner’s Long Run
  • 1964: The Birth of Gay Theater
  • Fifty Years after City of Night
  • Tennessee and Sexual Exploitation
  • Tom Bianchi: Eye on The Pines
  • The Radicalism of Harry Hay
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Bangladesh: Activism Struggling to Be Born
  • Figure and Background
  • After DOMA: The Case for Full Marriage Equality
  • The Very English Britten
  • America’s First Gay Town
  • Orange Humor
  • Cruising and The Boys
  • Go West
  • Sympathy for the Ruled
  • The God of Child Abuse
  • How to Do Agitprop
  • Memories of Marginality
  • A Road Hardly Traveled
  • ‘Stalactites of the Past’
  • The Lavender Bishop
  • Exhaling in Verse
  • A Beautiful Mind in a Toxic Time
  • Creature of The Culture
  • Short Reviews
  • An Inconvenient Corpse
  • Minority Voices in Verse
  • That Scene in The City and the Pillar
  • BTW
  • France v. the UK: Two Paths to Marriage Equality
  • How DOMA Ruling Affects Binational Couples
  • Ziggy Stardust Memories
  • In the Age of the ‘Gay Minstrel’
  • The Keeper and the Kept
  • The Amusing Life
  • Short Reviews
  • Talent in a Box
  • Leaving The City
  • The War Years in Japan
  • One Horny Dude
  • Range of Motion Pictures
  • Support for the Biological Argument
  • Strange Man in a Strange Land
  • Rise and Fall of a One-Hit Wunderkind
  • ‘Google Santorum’
  • In a Yellow Loo
  • Into Thick Walls
  • What Happened to Him as a Child?
  • Letters to the Editor
  • How DOMA Ruling Affects Binational Couples
  • ‘Affirm who you feel you really are.’
  • ‘Who can possibly step into his shoes?’
  • ‘Ratzinger … had to be the one.’
  • ‘Elsa was best known for her parties.’
  • ‘I concluded that I owe her awe.’
  • ‘About the inner sanctum of the self’
  • The Dresser
  • The Freedom Fighters’ Historian
  • Beyond the Celluloid Closet
  • The Rite of Winter
  • Letters We Were Never Meant to Read
  • Short Reviews
  • Next on the Agenda
  • Back on the Farm
  • ‘Living the Life’ No More
  • Could You Be the One?
  • Art Briefs
  • A Film about Making a Film about a Film
  • Should Bradley Manning Be Celebrated?
  • Letters to the Editor
  • BTW
  • Dark Victory as Metaphor of the Closet
  • Single Gay Father, Seeking
  • Christopher’s Kind
  • A Life on the Narrative Line
  • When Musical Theater Could Rock the Boat
  • Black and Gay: A Special Case
  • Keith Vaughan’s Art of the Male Form
  • Let’s Talk about Interracial Porn
  • The Philosophers’ Funnel of Love
  • Portrait of a Transgender Marriage
  • Last Night at the Web (From the July-August 2013 issue)
  • Blue Moon
  • BTW
  • Head Over Heels
  • Beat History Traced in Two Biographies
  • Reflections on Martin Cox’ Dying Hulks
  • Out Came Diana King, Jamaican Superstar
  • Larry Mitchell, Novelist of New York Gay Life
  • Ed Koch, the Ambiguously Gay Mayor
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Heads Up! ACA Could Jolt HIV Funding
  • Frank Ocean’s Sexual Healing
  • Two Artists Are Reunited in Norfolk
  • Another Country
  • Rough Traders
  • Splitting the Difference
  • Love Canals
  • Cycle Off to Buffalo
  • The First Gay Chat Room
  • A Daughter’s Tribute
  • Short Reviews
  • Israel: Equal Rights As Workaround
  • Malawi: Churches Stand in the Way
  • India: Male Privilege Is the Problem
  • Visual Art for an Invisible Subculture
  • A Cuban Art Exhibit to Remember
  • Spain: Bones of Contention
  • Russia: Counterrevolution and Revolt
  • When a Grown Man Has an Invisible Friend
  • Michael Kearns: Hollywood Fabulous
  • BTW
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Why I Am Not Gay
  • The AP’s Ban on “Homophobia” Is Misguided
  • Fan of the Opera
  • ‘Girl Gone Wild’
  • Love and Other Addictions
  • Short Reviews
  • Tennessee Williams’ BFF
  • Poets of the Interior
  • Graphic Language
  • Herstories Three
  • How to Be Gay in Asia
  • Arkansas Punk
  • An Olio of New Poetry
  • Parallel Lives-Up to a Point
  • What Proust Read
  • The Shape-Shifting Ginsberg
  • Swimming with Howard Moss
  • “Writing is emotional and mysterious.”
  • Isherwood after Stonewall
  • The Non-essential(ist) Harry Hay
  • Gay Marriage, 1970s Style
  • On the Persistence of Camp
  • Life Inside
  • Look Again at Leonardo’s Evangelist
  • Mongolia: Hopeful Signs in a New Democracy
  • Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2012
  • BTW
  • New Push for Marriage Equality in the States
  • Five Take-Aways from the 2012 Election
  • Not Ready to Jump
  • On Being on the Road
  • Coming Out as Bi(polar)
  • It Takes a Foursome
  • Does Israel ‘Pinkwash’?
  • Queering Melancholia
  • Declaration Premature
  • A Man in Full
  • A Writer of Opportunity
  • You’ve Got to Hide It from the Kids
  • The Remains of the Underground
  • Deep History of the AIDS Virus
  • On the Return of Virginia Woolf
  • Do Tell: Recovering GLBT History
  • The Once and Future Gay Periodical
  • The Lazarus Effect
  • John Cheever’s Erotic Abyss
  • Stonewall Unremembered (An illustrated essay)
  • Vidal: ‘I don’t regret anything I’ve said.’
  • Gore Vidal, Gay Hero in Spite of Himself
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Films on the Circuit Show a Genre in Flux
  • Short Reviews
  • The Virus Hunter
  • ‘I only love the fairer sex.’
  • The God of Slimming
  • Sunshine State Blues
  • A Pound of Care
  • No Country for Gay Men
  • Irving Walks to the Wild Side
  • Out Comes Gospel
  • San Francisco in the Raw
  • Coded Verse of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Street of Dreams
  • Victorian Soap (Reprise)
  • The Logic of Homophobia
  • Rise and Fall of the Medical Model
  • Sex, Pride, and Desire
  • Sexism and the New Gay Male
  • Legal Marriage Is Not the Answer
  • Gay Memory
  • Defending Pornography
  • Lesbian Liberation Begins
  • Birth of a Consciousness
  • My Harvard, Part 2: New York
  • Alison Bechdel: Graphic Alchemist
  • Ida Rubinstein, Dancing into the 20th Century
  • Marilyn Monroe: A Serious, Mysterious Life
  • E. M. Forster’s Double Life: The Secret Side
  • A Wild Patience: Appreciating Adrienne Rich
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • The Rise and Fall of the ‘Ex-Gay’ Myth
  • Rufus Maximus
  • The Activist As Archivist
  • Fights in the Pit
  • Transmigration
  • It Happened in Jersey
  • Their Other Half
  • Hang ‘Em Hot
  • The Pink Scare
  • The World According to Harvey
  • Seasons of Interest
  • Notes on Self
  • The Improbables
  • The Man Behind the Dream
  • Reclaiming HIV as a ‘Gay’ Disease
  • Spain’s Sprint to Marriage Equality
  • France and the ‘American Scarecrow’
  • The Spy Who Came In from the Closet
  • Sizing Up Obama’s GLBT Record
  • How the EEOC Protects Gay Workers
  • Party Polarization Is Now Complete
  • Scissor Sisters Bring Activist Message to Their Music
  • The Last Alternative Miss Ireland Is Crowned
  • BTW
  • The Multi-Talented Henry Van Dyke
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • Incident Exposes Romney as Homophobic Bully
  • Weird Wonders on Cable TV
  • New Plays Revisit the Bad Old Days
  • Identity Shifts
  • Slaves and Vampires
  • A Place in the Shade
  • Psychopathia Sexualis
  • More Curious Than Wise
  • The Affluent Metropolis
  • Watching Out for Mom
  • Short Reviews
  • A Visual Artist Who Could Write
  • Tough Gay on the Block
  • Sex and Other Subtexts
  • Visconti’s Mann, Mann’s Mahler
  • Motion Paintings
  • Back Story for a Painting
  • A Writer’s (Very) Raw Material
  • What a Year in Paris Can Do for You
  • Is Sexual Orientation Research Biased?
  • The Making of an Outlaw Genre
  • Shakespeare in (Same-Sex) Love
  • What You Weren’t Reading in 1952
  • Women in Love
  • Sympathy for the Devil
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • To Defeat DOMA, Use ‘Full Faith and Credit’
  • GBF Looking for Love
  • Scenes from a Boardinghouse
  • Byronic Back Stories
  • Transitioning in Public
  • Composer of an Era
  • Rough Draft of a Career
  • Short Reviews
  • John Waters Miked and Taped
  • A Pan for All Seasons
  • Covering the Waterfront
  • It’s Love versus Sex in White’s Latest
  • What a Long, Strange Trip to Glee
  • Oldest Living Hollywood Hustler Tells All
  • Berliners for Sale
  • AIDS Memorials in the U.S.A.
  • Lesbian Subcultures before Stonewall
  • The Love of Pierre du Pont’s Life
  • Alexander Hamilton’s Smoking Gun
  • Of Beefcake and Beauty Queens
  • Riot at the Black Cat
  • Word Is Out and the World It Transformed
  • Gi Hyeong-do, Korean Poet, Out in the World
  • BTW
  • Barbara Grier, Activist and Founder of Naiad Press
  • Letters to the Editor
  • ‘Gay Rights are Human Rights,’ U.S. Affirms
  • Blue Ridge and Red Clay
  • Love and Marriage in Two NYC Debuts
  • Rites of Passing
  • The Man Who Kept Secrets
  • Short Reviews
  • Finding Nick
  • One Woman’s Mitzvah
  • Faeries in America
  • Notes from a 70’s Rebel
  • Do Tell
  • Plato without the Pederasty
  • Gertrude Stein, Collaborationist
  • Some of Our Best Friends…
  • Love and War Zones
  • Can the Revolution Be Recovered?
  • The Sinking of Admiral Barry
  • Stopping the Madness
  • The Politics of Experience
  • Kameny Always Knew He Was Sane
  • The Women Who Took On the APA
  • The ‘Inversion’ Defense in Germany
  • Michael Musto, New York’s Diva of Dish
  • UN Resolution a First in GLBT Recognition
  • Passages of Artists and Activists in 2011
  • BTW
  • Readers’ Thoughts
  • U.S. Census Reveals Rise of Same-Sex Unions
  • The Start of the Affair
  • Prose Poems with Grit
  • Short Reviews
  • To Accept Is Divine
  • The Multifarious Family
  • Paul’s Cases
  • Far from the Movement Crowd
  • How the Church Stole Puberty
  • Reflections on a Golden Boy
  • Punk Rock’s Pitcher of Spitballs
  • How ‘the Artist’ Became an Æsthete
  • Death Comes to a Ballet Impresario
  • Cooked Down to Nothing
  • Of Monsters and Mad Love
  • J’accuse: The Heath Erases Gay Writers
  • Saint Sebastian in South Carolina
  • Lincoln vs. Douglas: Who Was Gayer?
  • Children of a Lesser Holocaust
  • Love Songs of Gandhi and Malcolm X
  • How the Militant Movement Began
  • Documentarians Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato
  • How Isherwood’s Life Became a Cabaret
  • How the Media Suppress Japan’s Gay Past
  • BTW
  • Gennady Trifonov, Dissident Russian Poet, Dies at 65
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Prevent Suicide through Youth Empowerment
  • k.d. lang Has Never Gone Away
  • A Japanese Revival
  • Nuestras Voices / Our Voces
  • No Quitting Ennis and Jack
  • Short reviews
  • Failing, to Succeed
  • Sofia After Dark
  • Aunt Gertie’s Kids
  • At Home with Artists Looking On
  • Art and Politics in the Deadly Years
  • Sex Tourism in the Age of Giants
  • Where Oberon and Othello Join Hands
  • Daphne and Cecil
  • ‘Humiliation Is a Grand Life Event’
  • How the Right Pre-empted Equality
  • Men in Briefs
  • Modernism Comes to Old Albion
  • Auden’s Bardic Return to Oxford
  • Don Bachardy and His Biggest Fan
  • The Lost Songs of Cole Porter
  • Brazil: Organizing for Gay Rights in Bahia
  • BTW
  • The Low-down on the Down Low
  • Life after Orgasm
  • Is there a ‘gay æsthetic’?
  • Do You Surfer Boy?
  • Some of the Sights
  • A Big Life Writ Large
  • Sex Markets and the City
  • Can sex be (re)liberated?
  • Sharecropper’s Daughter
  • What really happened at the Stonewall Inn?
  • The Lesbian between the Lines
  • The Essentials of Heaven
  • The New Post-Straight
  • Upper West Side Story
  • Straight Pen for Gay Men
  • Poets Are Out in the Presses
  • Circling the Square
  • The Bachelors
  • Closet-Dwellers of the Mind
  • ‘It’s really about the search for love’
  • Moisés Kaufman’s Journey to Tennessee
  • The Many Lives of Malcolm Boyd
  • BTW
  • Doric Wilson and Lanford Wilson of Caffe Cino Fame
  • Michael Hattersley, GLR Stalwart and Dear Friend
  • Letters to the Editor
  • How ‘It Gets Better’ Is Making It Better
  • Fictional Fangs
  • Hypotheticals
  • Masters of Our Domain
  • Those Overachieving L’s
  • Queen for the Hardcore
  • Time on the Qross
  • Straight for Pay
  • Camping It Down
  • My Mother, Not Myself
  • The Wondering Years
  • Deadly Sins in Venice
  • Short reviews
  • Human Subjects Bare All
  • Writing Strange
  • Men under Arms with Bonaparte
  • No Fags in the Foxhole
  • The Making of a Film Archive Activist
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  • Perspectives on Intergenerational Love
  • Fifty
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  • America’s Gore Vidal
  • ‘My sexuality gives me a place to stand.’
  • Of Freemasons, Kings, and Constitutions
  • Bruz Fletcher Livened Up the 1930’s
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  • Queries of a ‘Jamerican’
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  • A Hetero Heartthrob Onscreen…
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  • A Man’s Own Story
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  • Tom of Finland: Sexual Liberator?
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  • Grief: A Novel
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  • That Double Meaning of ‘In Cold Blood’
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  • Reflections on Song of the Loon at Forty
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  • C. A. Tripp’s Journey to Lincoln
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  • Feast Your Eyes!
  • Makers and Shakers of Gay Literature
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  • The Power of Data, the Price of Exclusion
  • Found: 85,000 Black Gay Households
  • The Lives of Lesbian Elders
  • Survey Says…
  • Did same-sex marriage doom Kerry?
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  • Goodridge Takes Effect: Now What?
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  • Not Your Average Tennis Champion
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  • Look Away
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  • Lust in Action
  • Short Reviews
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  • Burn This
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