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A White Elephant What are we to make of a lifelong Republican strategist and opponent of marriage equality who does a complete 180 and decides, not only that he’s now…More
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Rainbow Over Sochi Russia’s growing hostility to gay rights has come to the world’s attention as we anticipate the Winter Olympics in Sochi. When the German team introduced its…More
John Mitzel: Writer, Bookseller, Boston Institution
JOHN MITZEL, the proprietor of Calamus Bookstore—Boston’s GLBT bookstore—died on October 4 in his home in Arlington, Massachusetts. His death was the result of a long series of physical…More
Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2013
AS IS OUR CUSTOM, we reflect on members and friends of the GLBT community who died during the last twelve months. All deaths were in 2013 unless otherwise indicated.…More
Letters to the Editor
Aquarium Contests Cruelty Charge To the Editor: An opinion piece by Dan Mathews [senior VP of PETA, in the Nov.-Dec. 2013 issue] gave a distorted and inaccurate portrayal of…More
… Not That She Ever Went Away
Closer To The Truth Cher Warner Bros. Records WELL, our über-goddess is at it again. Defying all industry expectations, the Lazarus of pop has a new album, Closer…More
Something for Everyone from France
Stranger by the Lake Directed by Alain Guiraudie Les Films du Worso, et al. Blue Is the Warmest Color Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche Quat’sous Films, et al. IT…More
Clan on the Run
WHILE family memoirs are often drenched in anguish, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s Intolerable takes the genre to a new level. The Toronto-based journalist and university professor reaches back to his parents’ history, from Yemen in the ’60s through Beirut, Cairo, and back to Yemen up to the Arab Spring, in agonizing, heart-wrenching detail.
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500 Ways to Get Off
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in Us All by Jesse Bering Scientific American/Farrar Straus & Giroux. 268 pages, $26. THIS BOOK by Jesse Bering follows closely upon the publication…More