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Urvashi Vaid, Creator of Change By Richard Burns: Urvashi’s deepest happiness was rooted in her decades-long love affair with Kate Clinton. That gave her so much joy.
The Capriccios of Jimmy Wright By Wes Hartley: Jimmy was eager to explore the harlequin mosaic of queer diversity. He had all the skills necessary to turn those impressions into art. Jimmy Wright was born an artist.
Dora & Lytton & Ralph & Frances By Andrew Holleran: There were two Bloomsburys: the one that began in 1906 at Cambridge University when John Maynard Keynes, the eminent economist, and Lytton Strachey founded a discussion society called The Apostles, in which great minds talked about ideas with handsome young undergraduates; and the one that resumed after World War I, when a new generation (who were part of, but not co-extensive with, the “Bright Young Things”) emerged.
Men Dress for Each Other By Steven F. Dansky: Divided into three main galleries, “Undressed,” “Overdressed,” and “Redressed,” the exhibition spans the centuries with wide-ranging displays from classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, and 17th-century military body armor, to 20th-century underwear, T-shirts and jock straps, and a 21st-century velvet tuxedo gown by designer Christian Siriano worn by Billy Porter on the red carpet of the Academy Awards in 2019.
Shakespeare Made Me Okay with It By John S. Garrison: Intriguingly, the author locates the “gayest moment in Shakespeare” in The Merchant of Venice. The very opening line has the merchant Antonio announce to his friends, “In sooth I know not why I am so sad.”
A Shoah Survivor Whose Cause Was Race Book Review by Anne Charles: LONNEKE GEERLINGS opens her biography of Rosey E. Pool by depicting her subject getting off a cattle car destined for Auschwitz. Convincing the authorities that she was a guard who had lost her identifying armband, combined with her fluent German, served to win her a temporary reprieve.

By Richard Schneider
Seems it’s been a while since the religious Right went into full freakout mode over a logo or ad campaign, but they pretty much lost their minds over a change in those multi-colored and commercially personified candies known as M&M’s. …

January 3, 2023

As Long as I’m Famous, A Movie Review

By Allen Ellenzweig
As Long As I’m Famous wishes to be an exposé of Broadway and Hollywood in the period after World War II; the narrative action mostly takes place in 1948. It focuses on a half-dozen overlapping relationships, but mostly zeroes in on the young Montgomery Clift …

December 12, 2022

We Were There: Now in Chicago

By Ignacio Darnaude

CHICAGO’S WRIGHTWOOD 659, a private institution focused on socially engaged art, is currently showing a landmark exhibition: The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869–1930.

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January 24, 2023

My Daddy’s Daughter

By Noni Salma
This is not a love story. Or a story of a child missing a father. This is a story of a father chasing a lost shadow. This is a story of a child who is not a dream come true. …

January 18, 2023

Shirley T. & Me

By Jer Long
Life with Shirley T., was a rollercoaster ride through an Edgar Allen Poe version of Alice in Wonderland. Her peaceable downtimes I relished. Her flipping nightmares I bore with monkish silence. Her madcap express I boarded eagerly. Unpredictable, she was a force to reckon with.

November 23, 2022

Keep Telling Her Story

By Dick Atkins

Tiffany never gave up hope for her ultimate goal, finding love and comfort in the body and soul she felt was hers.

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Book Reviews

Swann As a Problem Novel

This is primarily a tale of one heterosexual man’s obsessive love and even more obsessive jealousy for a woman he eventually dismisses as his social inferior: “To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I had my greatest love, for a woman to whom I wasn’t attracted, who wasn’t my type!” (Yes, Proust’s “wit” is often classist.)

Goodbye to All That

Other Names is about far more than shifting attitudes about homosexuality or a troubled father-son relationship. It’s about what constitutes one’s identity. What does it mean to be Pakistani or British? To be a son? To be a gay man?

Dr. Watson on the Hunt

Hound of the Baskervilles has some similarities to McOmber’s 2020 novel Jesus and John, in which the Apostle John and a newly resurrected Jesus try to escape from a labyrinthine villa in ancient Rome.

Live from Weimar

These stories, in short, are a celebration of gay sex: not comradely affection, not romantic friendship, but actual gay sex. It’s good to have access to them as a reminder of what was possible a hundred years ago.

Transcendent Stories from the Everyday

This translation of Moldy Strawberries—forty years after it was first published—finally offers to English readers this important work of world queer literature.

Short Reviews

Brief reviews of the books A Short History of Queer Women, Brother Alive, Jazzed, and Love Poems of a Gay Nerd; and the album Bronco.

January-February 2023
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Features

Bright Lights That Dimmed Last Year

IN KEEPING WITH our annual tradition, we remember here some of the people who left us over the past year—the writers, artists, performers, and activists who made a significant contribution to LGBT culture and community. All dates are in 2022 unless otherwise indicated.

Features

Urvashi Vaid, Creator of Change

By Richard Burns: Urvashi’s deepest happiness was rooted in her decades-long love affair with Kate Clinton. That gave her so much joy.

Essays

Richard Howard’s Threatening Poetry

What makes Richard Howard so discomforting and so important (the two in my mind are always linked) was his insatiability, not just as an intellectual, not merely as a translator, critic, and poet, but as a sensibility that could never see enough, never feel enough, never know enough, who wished to feel each moment notMore

Essays

The Capriccios of Jimmy Wright

By Wes Hartley: Jimmy was eager to explore the harlequin mosaic of queer diversity. He had all the skills necessary to turn those impressions into art. Jimmy Wright was born an artist.
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