Excavations from a British Century
THIS BOOK is a bona fide curiosity—a volume of 125 short surveys of major, minor, and often totally neglected works of British, Irish, and Commonwealth gay male fiction.
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The Moons of Libido
Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire and Moving between Worldsby Peter DubéLethe Press. 178 pages, $15. NOWHERE in Beginning with the Mirror is the author identified…More
Identities in Play
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoirby Daisy HernándezBeacon Press. 185 pages, $24.95 I TEACH a course in multicultural studies to graduate students in counseling, and I’m…More
What a Picture Is Worth
In 1988, Haring was diagnosed with HIV, which only seemed to escalate his artistic output.
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Flipping Stereotypes
A View from the Bottom is part of Duke University’s “Perverse Modernities” series, and the book’s cover, depicting a pair of legs held aloft by two hands, makes it clear what the “bottom” in the title refers to.
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Legally Male
American Guy, edited by Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum, grew out of an academic conference of the law and literature movement, a subfield of legal scholarship that examines the law in and through literature.
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The Agony of Victory
IN THE DOCUMENTARY The Celluloid Closet (1995), Arthur Laurents memorably observes that “minority audiences watch films with hope. … That’s why nobody really sees the same movie.” His observation…More
It Shouldn’t Be So Hard to Be a Queer Atheist
THERE IS A LINE between encouraging religions to reform and become more progressive, something in which I deeply believe, and leaving non-religious people behind, which has become a problem in Western…More
Secrets of the Met, Hanging in Plain Sight
The following comes from Andrew Lear, an art historian and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, which will be offering gay tours of New York, including the Met, starting this spring,…More
An Oasis of Freedom Grows in Burma
QUESTIONS of identity have always been front and center in Myanmar, otherwise known as Burma. After Burma’s independence from British colonial rule in 1948, numerous armed conflicts broke out between…More