If Dorian Had Lived…
By all means check out The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, especially if you’ve already read the original novel, or use it as an excuse to read The Picture of Dorian Gray if you haven’t.
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March-April 2014
Blog Posts
Notes on Camp – and Anti-Camp
The content of this essay was first presented at the Camp/Anti-Camp Conference at the Hau Theater in Berlin in March 2012, curated by Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel. The…More
BTW
Sweatin’ with Cong. Schock When Barney Frank came out as gay in his forties, he was relieved to discover that his constituents really didn’t care about the sex life…More
Readers’ Thoughts
Update: Cherry Grove Theater Lives! To the Editor: My essay “America’s First Gay Town” introduced a historic Cherry Grove, New York, to your readers in the Nov.-Dec. issue.…More
Elton Discovers Mortality
The Diving Board by Elton John Capitol/Mercury Records THOMAS WOLFE was right: you can’t go home again. That’s the sad-but-true wisdom at the heart of “Home Again,” the…More
Short Reviews
Reviews of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life, Growing Up Golem, With: New Gay Fiction, and Fault Tree.
MoreWho Made Those Fabulous Duds?
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk Exhibition: The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) Curated by Fred Dennis and Valerie Steele A Queer History…More
No Commies, Jews, or Gays
THIS ENGAGING STUDY investigates the many associations that have been drawn, in both literary works and historical events, between gay men, Jews, and communists as potential traitors and spies.
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A ‘Real’ Marriage, After All
IN HER LIFE, Liza Monroy confides in The Marriage Act, there have been three important men: her father, her boyfriend Julian, and her best friend Emir.
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If Aschenbach Returned…
Death in Venice, California is McCabe’s homage to Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella. Like Gustav von Aschenbach, Frame is an aging writer who finds himself facing a crisis of the spirit …
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