The Very English Britten
Britten’s reputation today feels internationally secure, though both biographies sketch the extraordinary obstacles he faced
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November-December 2013
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America’s First Gay Town
ON JUNE 4, 2013 the National Parks Service officially designated the Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre on Fire Island, New York, for listing on its National Register of Historic Places.
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Orange Humor
From the Emmy-winning creators of Weeds, Orange Is the New Black has been described as The L Word meets Oz
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Cruising and The Boys
The Friedkin Connection is a classic Hollywood autobiography, full of tough-talking, up-by-your-bootstraps salty chatter.
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Go West
In The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell, William Klaber comes clean in an afterword and tells you how he’s fashioned a narrative based on scant historical records.
MoreSympathy for the Ruled
David Richards engages the tension between imperialism and gay rights and offers an intriguing thesis: the emergence of gay rights in England
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The God of Child Abuse
SCOTT TERRY’S Cowboys, Armageddon, and the Truth provides ample testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit.
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How to Do Agitprop
IN 1991, Fringe Benefits Theater Company co-founder and artistic director Norma Bowles began collaborating with homeless queer youth in Los Angeles
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Memories of Marginality
TWO recently published short story collections—one written by an African-American professor, the other by a Puerto Rican author—provide unique perspectives into the lives of queer minorities in the United States.
MoreA Road Hardly Traveled
ALI LIEBEGOTT’S FICTION is in a direct line of descent from the road trip novels of the Beat Generation
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