Cruising China
Tiantian Zheng is a straight Chinese woman who teaches anthropology at SUNY-Cortland and went back to China over the course of three years to gather data about gay men in a provincial city on the coast northeast of Beijing …
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Musical Inventions
Describing Sondheim as “a classically trained composer who chose the theater over the concert hall and Broadway over the opera house,” Mordden points out classical influences everywhere in the master’s scores
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When Eleanor Met Lorena
In her new novel Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert imagines how one of the more well-documented relationships might have started, progressed, and concluded.
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A Voice (Contralto) for Social Justice
This memoir documents Ronnie Gilbert’s struggles to discover herself as an artist and as a woman.
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If You Remember the ’70s…
“I’M OLD ENOUGH to justify writing about my history,” Gary Indiana remarks early on in his new memoir, “but too old to remember much of it.”
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A Family Transition
In Nutt’s telling, this is the story of an American family as grounded in traditional values as they come, coming to grips with a situation that they were never prepared for. They rise to the challenge because they love their kids, and they are enriched for the effort.
MoreSilencing Israeli Activists Accomplishes Nothing
AT THE JANUARY 2016 Creating Change conference, held in Chicago, hundreds of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli activists shut down a reception for Israeli LGBT activists and their American supporters. Apparently the…More
Nonacademic Interests
PAIGE SCHILT’S new memoir Queer Rock Love opens with Schilt embedded in graduate school, immersed in radical political thought and queer theory, and only beginning to realize that she is “not only politically gay” but actually gay.
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Sappho Transfigured
IT SEEMS everyone’s boarding the Sappho boat these days, eager to travel with the ancient poet and tell the world who she was. One person well qualified to be Sappho’s herald and interpreter is singer, songwriter, and musician Jeri Hilderley, who pays homage to the poet with a stirring new CD, Time Traveling with Sappho.
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Romaine Brooks’ Legacy: An Exchange To the Editor: Richard Canning’s review of my book Romaine Brooks: A Life [in the Jan.-Feb. 2016 issue] contains a few errors that…More