The Butch Mystique
Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls, and Other Renegades by Catherine Smith and Cynthia Grieg Henry N. Abrams. 184 pages, $35. THIS beautiful volume of terrific black and…More
Browsing: Tenth Anniversary Issue
January – February, 2004
Blog Posts
Taking the Fun out of Fundamentalism
REREADING “My Life as a Christian,” which would later become a play that I last performed in the previous millennium under the title, The King of Kings and I:…More
Silence =’ed Death
While the World Sleeps: Writing from the First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague. Edited by Chris Bull Thunder’s Mouth Press. 421 pages, $16.95 WHILE the World…More
Dissent in Ashcroft’s America
RECENTLY an Advocate.com commentary returned to an explosive issue of the last decade—the resurgence of unsafe sex among gay men. Theater producer and AIDS activist Jordan Roth urged: “We must…More
What else did they acquire?
OF THE MANY women who figured in the lives of Gertrude Stein and her circle in the early 20th century, the Cone sisters—fabulously wealthy, single women from Baltimore—stand out as power brokers in the Paris art world in their own right. Their money came from the family’s denim mills, the largest in the world. Although deeply steeped in the Victorian mores of their time, they bought “works by artists who, at the time, were dismissed as charlatans, or denounced as pornographers, and sometimes both,” in the words of Mary Gabriel in The Art of Acquiring.
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