HomeAuthor: RICHARD M BERRONG

Author: RICHARD M BERRONG

RICHARD M BERRONG

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July 6, 2013 0

From Salomé to Kinky Sex

In this video, frequent GLR contributor Richard M. Berrong discusses the catalog of a recent art exhibit centered around a single painting, Gustave Moreau’s Salomé Dancing Before Herod. Joris-Karl Huysmans…More

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Gender Ideology and Its Discontents

Nowadays the way people in the developing world make contact with gay sexual life is through porn and apps like Grindr.

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How Hans Scholl Took on the Nazis

They started to write anonymous pamphlets accusing the Nazi regime of mass murder and demanding its end.

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Beck’s List

Gad Beck was born as Gerhard Beck in Berlin in 1923. (Gad is a Hebrew name that he chose for himself later on.) This was well before the rise of the Nazis, at a time when Berlin was quite progressive even by today’s standards. There was an atmosphere of religious tolerance such that a “mixed marriage” like that of Beck’s parents was neither uncommon nor frowned upon.

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Pedro Lemebel Outlasted Pinochet

As a writer, Lemebel spoke both to the people, through his crónicas (chronicles) in newspapers and magazines, and to the powerful, delivering biting, subversive critiques of the state. Aside from the chronicles, his output as a writer included poetry, short fiction, and one novel, Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador). There are consistent through-lines between the written and performative works—those pitched to the people, those to the powerful, and those to the Spanish-language literati.
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