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Out Came Iceman A retronym is a word like “landline” that renames a familiar item when something new comes along. With the advent of the cellphone, we learned we’d…More
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Letters to the Editor
Time on the Runway To the Editor: I read with interest David Masello’s article on showroom models in your November-December issue. I was a successful model back in the…More
‘Homonormativity’ and Its Discontents
WE ARE LEAVING the city behind in the dream. We are lying upon the edge of a pool on a cliff overlooking the ocean. In Mexico, the city is…More
Living the Art
Portraits at an Exhibition is an engaging book, unfolding like a visit to an art museum, recounting well the joy both of viewing paintings and of reading wall-text labels, and becoming frustrated by the constant flow of people cutting into one’s space.
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Lesbian Sculptors as Expat Abolitionists
A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome by Melissa Dabakis Penn State. 286 pages, $29.95 AS I WRITE, a media circus is spinning around Harper Lee’s…More
Gay Advertising Goes Mainstream: Now What?
POLITICS AND POP CULTURE have always played off each other in advertising, and nowhere has that link been more clear than in gay-targeted ads. Over the past four…More
Two Speeches from the Democratic National Convention
Following are the transcripts of two speeches delivered at the Democratic National Convention in Boston last July. No corresponding GLBT leaders were invited to speak at the Republican Convention. Barney Frank…More
An HIV Policy that Saved Lives
Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS by Paul Sendziuk University of New South Wales Press, 262 pages Positive by David Menadue Allen and Unwin, 243 pages …More
Media Year: 2003 in Pictures
Last year was marked by a number of extraordinary breakthroughs in the political arena, but 2003 was also a year of cultural milestones, with many “firsts” for gay men and lesbians…More