Capote’s Legacy on the Line
Understanding Truman Capote by Thomas Fahy University of South Carolina Press 186 pages, $39.90 IN THE FINAL PAGES of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote’s most popular book, there are…More
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January-February 2015
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Mike Hadreas Is Perfume Genius
“NO FAMILY is safe when I sashay,” sings Mike Hadreas, otherwise known as “Perfume Genius,” on “Queen,” the haunting first single on the new album Too Bright. The video for…More
Bill T. Jones and the Birth of Story/Time
THREE DECADES AGO, Bill T. Jones jolted the New York dance scene. Bucking the prevailing stripped-down postmodernism, he and his partner Arnie Zane created sensational dances collaborating with composers,…More
Life and Lesbian Pulp in Postwar America
I’LL NEVER forget the first time I saw Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. It was the fall of 1992, and the documentary was premiering at Image+Nation, Montreal’s…More
Millions of Queers (Our Homo America)
What follows is an excerpt from Bernstein’s manuscript, the start (pp. 1-4) of a chapter called “What” (followed by “When,” “Where,” “How,” “Why,” and “What To Do About It”). Two…More
In Search of Elizabeth Bishop
I REMEMBER it vividly. On October 7, 1979, having walked from a poetry workshop in Harvard Square to Sanders Theater for a reading by Elizabeth Bishop—a benefit for the journal…More
Grow Up! Joan Rivers Had to Leave Us One Day
JOAN RIVERS is gone. Even after a few months, it’s almost impossible to believe, and like many deaths of celebrities we hold especially dear, it’s hard to imagine our world…More
Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2014
AS IS our annual custom, we remember here some of the notable artists, writers, and activists of the GLBT community who died within the past twelve months. Included this year…More
Readers’ Thoughts
How True-to-Life Was Lord Dismiss Us? To the Editor: I enjoyed Raymond-Jean Frontain’s article on Michael Campbell’s Lord Dismiss Us [Sept.-Oct. 2014 ] so much that I bought a…More
All the Doomed Young Men
The Plaster Fabric by Martyn Goff Valancourt Books. 200 pages, $16.99 The Youngest Director by Martyn Goff Valancourt Books. 218 pages, $15.99 A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson…More