Men at Sea in the 19th C.: The Case of Fryer
Maritime commerce in general, and whaling in particular, provided a haven for men of all races and creeds in the 19th century.
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November-December 2021
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LNX’s Acid Trip from Creation to Doom
MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X Columbia Records LIL NAS X’s 2021 music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” challenges traditional categories.…More
Fighting Racism, Skirting Gender Lines
Murray’s list of unheralded accomplishments is a long one. Among many firsts, she was the first African-American to receive a Yale law doctorate (1965) and the first Black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Her signal contribution occurred in the field of jurisprudence.
MoreGutsier, and Ten-Plus Years before ‘The Well’
HUNGERHEART (1915) is a pioneering, semi-autobiographical lesbian novel written by British author Christabel Marshall under the masculine pseudonym Christopher St. John. The novel is a first-person narrative of Joanna “John” Montolivet that follows her on her quest for love.
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Daniel Heath Justice, Indigenous Gay Scholar
An interview with Daniel Heath Justice by Neil Ellis Orts. Justice currently teaches at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) in their First Nations and Indigenous Studies program. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He has published extensively in literary theory and history, his best-known book being Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.<.em>
MoreThree Women Who Broke Glass Ceilings
THREE AMERICAN LESBIANS whose importance to activism and literature cannot be overstated died within a few months of each other this year. Each was responsible for a remarkable…More
B.T.W.
War Heroes Another episode in the annals of people rising up in defense of minority rights: the residents of a town in Oregon banded together to put up a…More
Letters to the Editor
Readers’ thoughts.
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Celebrity What-If’s
The title character, Better Davis, is a drag queen who comes vividly to life in her own story. There is great humor in this account as she portrays Bette Davis going blind in the movie Dark Victory.
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Poems for This Moment
IN THIS SWEET debut collection of love poems, What Are the Men Writing in the Sugar?, Matty Bennett puts a first serious gay relationship on a pedestal to admire it from every angle.
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