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Anal Chic It would be hard to think of a more fashionable hunk of real estate than the Place Vendôme in Paris, that center of haute couture and five-star hotels…More
Browsing: January-February 2015
January-February 2015
Blog Posts
Random Acts of Kindness
Pride Directed by Matthew Warchus Calamity Films EARLY ON IN PRIDE, after the leader of a ragtag group of London gay activists has proposed that they raise money…More
The Revolution Was Photographed
The importance of documentary photography is ever present in Anthony Friedkin’s The Gay Essay, a portfolio of photographs from the late 1960s to the early ’70s that focuses on the gay liberation era in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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What Diversity Looks Like
Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers Edited by Wendell Ricketts FourCats Press. 486 pages, $18.95 THE COMMERCIALIZATION and mainstreaming of gayness is very much on…More
Judicial Review
READING Walter Frank’s Law and the Gay Rights Story the same week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider several Circuit cases that upheld marriage equality has been a timely and satisfying coincidence.
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Lined with Good Intentions
THE BASIC STORY of Namibia’s Rainbow Project is the impact of efforts by Western activists in Namibia after President Nujoma’s attacks on “gays, lesbian and common criminals,” which unleashed a wave of political homophobia from the mid-1990s on.
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Silent Partner
In Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist,
and the Politics of Gay Love in America, Terry Mutchler writes about the confusion of early courtship and the thrill of the consummation, about stealing a kiss in the darker corners of the capitol building.
Short Reviews
Reviews of Male Beauty: Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines, Water Music, and O, Africa!
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The Newport Sex Scandal Explained
Certainty is a brisk and compelling read, a history lesson without pain. It is literate without being fussily literary and gives us a Newport, Rhode Island, that Edith Wharton would not have recognized.
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The Men of the World’s Oldest Profession
Male Sex Work and Society Edited by Victor Minichiello and John Scott Harrington Park Press. 512 pages, $50. ANY BOOK about male prostitution is bound to call to mind the…More