John Cooper Takes the Helm at Sundance
I interviewed Cooper face-to-face at the Sundance Film Festival last January.
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When Arthur Met Paul
In 1873, when French poet Arthur Rimbaud was staying in London with his
more famous lover Paul Verlaine, the spark-striking and strategically
untruthful nineteen-year-old added two years to his age so that he
could pass through a set of doors normally closed to minors. …
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Harvey Milk was working for an insurance company in New York City
before he became the flamboyant politician portrayed in Gus Van Sant’s
recently released movie, Milk; he lived on the Upper West Side, voted for Goldwater, and loved to go to the opera. …
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How “Gay” Were the Stars of the 30’s?
Book review
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An exhibit of the Polaroid photos of Robert Mapplethorpe
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MoreThe “Netroots” Revolution
In the aftermath of the passage of California’s Proposition 8, a new
generation of activists emerged to protest the loss of the right to
marry one’s same-sex partner. The GLBT media has dubbed this new wave
of activism “Stonewall 2.0.”
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Tomb with a View
Forster’s legacy and prominence have soared since his death, threatening to eclipse many of his Bloomsbury peers and certainly eclipsing the reputation of Joseph Conrad, say, whom Forster revered as “our greatest living novelist,” or George Bernard Shaw, called by Forster “our greatest living writer” some time later. …
MoreTying the Not: How They Got Prop 8
… An analysis of how the pro-8 forces succeeded reveals a campaign of misinformation and unlikely alliances, one that took years of planning dating back to at least the mid-1990’s. It also reveals a shrewd, media-savvy, and well-funded grassroots organization that understood California’s complex geographic and political landscape.
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