In Days of Yore
Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture by Tom Linkinen Amsterdam University Press 334 pages, $99. IN 1394, according to London court records, one John “Eleanor” Rykener was…More
Browsing: July-August 2016
July-August 2016
Blog Posts
Short Reviews
Reviews of the books: Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution, Dog Men, and Some Go Hungry and the film: Clambake : 30 Years of Women’s Week in Provincetown.
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In the Manner of Amy Lowell
THIS three-part literary portrait of the renowned poet Amy Lowell in light of her lesbian relationship with Ada Russell, her lifetime companion, lover, supporter, and muse—whom Lowell lovingly called “the lady of the moon”—breathes new life into Amy Lowell’s stature and significance.
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When Gender Was No Object
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 by Laura Horak Rutgers. 311 pages, $29.95 EVEN IN ITS TITLE, Girls Will Be Boys sets out…More
Brazilian Bombshells
Gregory Mitchell’s study of male sex workers in Brazil, the muscular machos for rent in certain saunas in Rio de Janeiro really are putting on an act, trying to match themselves to the fantasy that tourists from America and Europe have of Brazilian men.
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Cracks in the Last Bastion
Cyd Zeigler, founder of Outsports magazine, argues that a decade and a half after a spate of homophobic incidents on the courts, on the fields, and in the locker rooms of American sports— LGBT athletes are beginning to enjoy a certain amount of acceptance.
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The WOW of Theater
These two books on overlapping topics are a pleasure to hold and to look at. Memories of the Revolution is a standard-sized paperback with a collection of photos in the center, and The Only Way Home Is through the Show is a large paperback art book, lavishly illustrated throughout.
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Habits of the Closet
Hide is a wonderful first novel. Full of humor and tragedy, the book reveals the sacrifices that people are often willing to make to keep their love, even if they must hide it from the world.
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Sons and Mothers
IN THIS MEMOIR, Castillo writes about her childhood in Chicago when it was the crucible of the Civil Rights movement, about motherhood and the complications it inspires, and about life as a bisexual Chicana feminist author. Black Dove is stunning in its range of interests and subversive for its linkage of the intimately personal with our current political landscape.
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Photographs That Set the Stage
Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera features more than eighty of Tseng’s large-format black-and-white landscape photographs, as well as color portraits of artists such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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