Browsing: November-December 2012
November-December 2012
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Irving Walks to the Wild Side 
… In One Person is certainly as intelligent as Irving’s earlier work, and thematically as serious. …
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Stonewall Unremembered (An illustrated essay)
Editor’s Note: This graphic item appeared in the Summer 1999 issue. Due to a printer’s error, it was printed as a line drawing, so gray scales were entirely lost. Here is Eric Orner’s work as it was meant to appear.
MoreVidal: ‘I don’t regret anything I’ve said.’
THIS interview was conducted at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montræal in April 2011. It is thus a very late interview with the late author, whose wit at 85 seems undiminished by time.
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Gore Vidal, Gay Hero in Spite of Himself
… I learned much from Gore Vidal, not least that if one craves fame, one can never be certain that one is famous enough. I spent considerable time with him when my book, Gore Vidal’s America, was published in November 2005, and there was something very sad about his constant need to reassure himself of his importance …
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Films on the Circuit Show a Genre in Flux
NEW YORK’s GLBT film series, NewFest 2012, was a milestone this year. The East Coast organizers have partnered with Los Angeles Outfest, and programming was held at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. …
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Short Reviews
Reviews of the books Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare, Red Nails, Black Skates, The Letter Q, Banned in Boston, Montreal’s Gay Village, Margins of Tolerance: Stories, and the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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The Virus Hunter
RIGHT from the opening pages, No Time to Lose immerses readers in excitement of the sort one might find in a Hemingway or Burroughs novel. But the excitement lies not in a fictional tale but in the discovery of deadly viruses in Africa at a time of human catastrophes and scientific breakthroughs. …
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