Duane Michals: Photographer, Storyteller
Duane Michals may not be a gay household name like Mapplethorpe, Ritts, or Weber, but it should be, because his work goes beyond a focus principally on glorifying the perfect male physique.
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At the Intersection of Museum and Sex
After a series of unfortunate construction delays, the long-awaited Museum of Sex opened its doors on October 5, 2002. The critics will have their say; the public will vote with their feet and their dollars.
MoreHarold Norse’s Poetic Imagination
Harold Norse is one of those writers whose life is itself a work of art. While a student in New York in the late 1930’s, Norse was an intimate of Chester Kallman and W. H. Auden. He also befriended the yet-undiscovered James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams.
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When Haring Met Andy
ANDY WARHOL and Keith Haring met in person in 1983, near the end of the senior artist’s career but still in the flowering of Haring’s all-too-brief life (he died in 1990). What seems to have excited Warhol most about the younger artist was his plan to open a retail outlet for the sale of his work.
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Buy this Diagnosis! HIV Marketing Folklore
“Keep everyone afraid and they’ll consume.” — Marilyn Manson UNTIL LATE in the 20th century, gay men were almost as invisible in the media as lesbians. We began…More
The Women of Weimar
Adapted from essays that appear in the forthcoming volume, The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin, published by Feral House of Los Angeles, CA.
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Robert Giard: Portrait of a Photographer
What Bob giard gave us was a wide-angle view of our literary community, manifesting our class, ethnic, and generational variety in his portraits.
MoreLend Me Your Ears
HARRY HAY pulled his Greek fisherman’s cap over his broad forehead. He’d just read an article on gay history containing so many assumptions he disagreed with that he barely knew where to begin arguing. He fiddled with his long strand of cultured pearls and let out a deep sigh. “There’s an old saying,” he muttered. “Them that don’t know tell, and them that know don’t.”
More2002: A Year of Historic Passages
A number of prominent gay and lesbian writers, artists, and activists passed away in 2002, among them …
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‘I grew up in Bombay, home of the Hijra.’
Born in India in 1947, Sir Salman Rushdie was educated at Cambridge University and came of age in England—indeed he is a knight of the realm—but has lived in New York City for much of his adult life. It was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, that provoked a fatwa on his life, issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
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