‘The Closet’ Made Me Do It
CLOSET SONNETS is structured in one of those postmodern ways that remains intriguing. The text is supposedly the life work of G. S. Crown, a thoughtful if somewhat conventional scholar, professor, husband, and father.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of the following books: Our Time: San Francisco in the ‘70s; Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes; How to Survive a Summer: A Novel; Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer; So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous; and Kingdom Come: A Fantasia.
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He Made It Cosmic to Be ‘Different’
Forever Stardust is written from the perspective of an obvious fan who is never fawning or shallow.
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What Makes a Culture Tolerant?
What accounts for the range of differences in acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons throughout the world?
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In Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality, sociologist Amy Adamczyk has woven an impressive tapestry of nuanced answers to this urgent and complex question.
Musical Orientation
In Lou Harrison, Bill Alves and Brett Campbell have written an eminently scholarly, fair-minded, and exhaustive biography of a composer they claim enjoyed “one of the richest lives ever lived in American arts.”
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On Disability’s Frontier
In The Province Of The Gods is a finely honed philosophical and autobiographical reflection on transcendence and self-acceptance.
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A Writer and Her Editor
FANS of lesbian icon Jane Rule will celebrate the publication of her letters to a man whom she came to love. Less familiar to U.S. readers, Rick Bébout—editor of the Toronto gay paper The Body Politic and the book Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic.
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The Etymology of Lads
Like The Invention of Love, Housman’s Country is a love letter to a vanished time. What the poet cries out for in his final speech in Stoppard’s play is “Oxford in the Golden Age!”
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Indigenous Alien
Despite the predictable but disturbing litany of abuse, Ma-Nee Chacaby emerges as a talented visual artist and a heroic survivor who eventually nurtures both children and adults in need.
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Underground Closet
Once immersed as a soldier in the Weather Underground, whose leaders turned authoritarian and cruel, Jonathan Lerner became fearful of his comrades. Decades later, he has written a memoir about this era titled Swords in the Hands of Children.
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