In (Partial) Defense of Harry Hay
OSCAR WILDE characterized gay love as that “great affection … such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy. … It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as…More
Browsing: January-February 2015
January-February 2015
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‘Millions of Queers’: A View from 1940
RESEARCHER RANDALL SELL has uncovered a previously unknown 149-page manuscript defending homosexuality written in 1940. Allen Bernstein’s “Millions of Queers” is one of the earliest known defenses of homosexuality…More
Christian Martyr, Pagan Witness
RADCLYFFE HALL’S The Well of Loneliness is the canonical lesbian novel that many people think they know; in some sense, it has become a part of queer folk culture.…More
Tennessee’s Small Circle of Friends
In his plays, Williams depicts writers who know each other socially as squabbling rivals, trading banter: Hemingway and Fitzgerald bicker in his Clothes for a Summer Hotel; and in…More
Sexual Freedom and the Classical Ideal
Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer HistoryCurated by Jonathan David KatzLeslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art THIS AMBITIOUS EXHIBITION, Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History, sets…More
Flee, Flee This Sad Hotel
IT WAS A PROFILE that John Lahr published in The New Yorker that led him to this biography of Tennessee Williams—a profile of the Lady St. Just, an over-zealous friend…More