Reader’s Thoughts
Equal Partners in Ancient Times To the Editor: It’s a bit difficult to identify whether certain statements in Toby Johnson’s review (Jan.-Feb. 2014) of Gilles Herrada’s The Missing Myth: A…More
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How U.S. Evangelicals Sowed Hatred in Uganda
The following is adapted from a piece that appeared on the website of The Guardian of London, UK, on March 20, 2014 (theguardian.com). GROWING UP in Uganda, homosexuality was not…More
Close Encounters of the Unexpected Kind
Dallas Buyers Club is about a homophobic redneck electrician and part-time rodeo cowboy—based on a real guy named Ron Woodroof, brilliantly played by Matthew McConaughey—a drug addict who’s also a sex addict with a taste for orgies.
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The World According to Grindr
If Looking tells us anything about “the Zeitgeist,” it’s that Patrick and company freely resist the walking clichés that one has come to expect from prime-time TV.
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Glimpses of Moments Unseen
PETER HUJAR (1934–1987) began as commercial photographer’s assistant, then shifted to the world of fashion before turning exclusively to fine art photography.
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Czechoslovakia Unbound
Necessary Errors is an extensive and detailed first novel follows a young American who’s spending a year in Czechoslovakia during 1990, the year after the fall of Communism in that country. Jacob Putnam is an unusual expatriate: gay but not fully out, he spends his days teaching English and his nights slowly, awkwardly getting to know the gay scene in Prague
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Ask a Poet
“I’VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD why more people don’t love poetry.” These are the very first words in Christopher Hennessy’s collection of interviews with gay male writers, Our Deep Gossip, and they belong to novelist Christopher Bram, who provided the book’s foreword.
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The Miracle of Me
This autobiography comes off rather like the one published in 2010 by France’s gay minister of culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, La Mauvaise Vie (The Bad Life). It left embarrassed readers wondering why Mitterrand would have wanted to present the public with such an unflattering depiction of himself.
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Living in the Levant
Who Will Die Last? Stories of Life in Israel by David Ehrlich Syracuse Univ. Press. 154 pages, $19.95 STAND IN LINE to enter a movie theater in Israel,…More
Who Shot Jenny Bonnett?
Frog Music: A Novel by Emma Donoghue Little, Brown and Company 416 pages, $27. IT CAN BE SOBERING to think that throughout history millions of life stories have been…More