The Boys Is Back
The Boys in the Band A Play by Mart Crowley Directed by Joe Mantello IT WAS EITHER kismet or dumb luck that the original production of The Boys…More
Browsing: East of the Rhine
September-October 2018
Film Reviews
THIS YEAR I’ve reviewed half a dozen of the ten or so films that I saw in June at the Provincetown International Film Festival—not officially an LGBT filmfest, but hey, it’s P’town.…More
If They Could See Him Now
The Gospel According to André Directed by Kate Novak Magnolia Pictures THIS YEAR promises a bumper crop of film documentaries. Already released are films on Grace Jones, Ruth…More
Hollywood on Biscayne Bay
Charlie Cinnamon: Legendary Press Agent Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach June 19 to Sept. 16, 2018 IN THIS RETROSPECTIVE exhibition of the extraordinary career of Charlie…More
When Cultures Collide
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala Harper. 215 pages, $26.99 UZODINMA IWEALA’S powerful, timely novel, Speak No Evil, tells two interrelated stories, told from each of the main…More
Progress Unseen
Gay on God’s Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities by Jonathan S. Coley University of North Carolina Press. 194 pages, $27.95 AT FIRST GLANCE,…More
Slipping It In
The Damned Don’t Cry, They Just Disappear: The Life and Works of Harry Hervey by Harlan Greene University of South Carolina Press. 184 pages. $29.99 IN 1993, John…More
You Will Be Humiliated
Camp Marmalade by Wayne Koestenbaum Nightboat Books. 409 pages, $18.95 Camp Marmalade sounds like a nice place to send gay boys for the summer, but since it…More
What Might Have Been
As Lillian Faderman’s new biography, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, reveals, Milk was not the first openly gay politician elected to public office, or even the first politician of significance to be out about his sexuality.
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Short Reviews
Forget the Sleepless Shores by Sonya Taaffe Lethe Press. $20. Sonya Taaffe is a classical scholar and a poet as well as a fiction writer, and her…More