An HIV Policy that Saved Lives
Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS by Paul Sendziuk University of New South Wales Press, 262 pages Positive by David Menadue Allen and Unwin, 243 pages …More
Browsing: March-April 2004
March-April 2004
Blog Posts
Media Year: 2003 in Pictures
Last year was marked by a number of extraordinary breakthroughs in the political arena, but 2003 was also a year of cultural milestones, with many “firsts” for gay men and lesbians…More
Letters to the Editor
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Melissa Etheridge: Hitched, Happy, and On Tour
Melissa Etheridge has been a lesbian rock icon since 1988, when audiences who had not heard her at clubs and women’s music festivals grabbed her debut album on Island Records. Defying the odds by succeeding in the mainstream as a woman rocker whose work won coverage on VH1 and MTV, as well as in lesbian publications and Rolling Stone, Melissa came out publicly at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1993, and then performed at the March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights later that spring, wrapping up the year with the fall 1993 release of an album defiantly entitled Yes, I Am.
MoreWill It Be Marriage or Civil Union?
THIS FALL, while the Right was still staggering from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas, Massachusetts dealt conservatives another body blow when its highest court legalized…More
Hope and Fear in Today’s Poland
This piece follows up on a feature article by Pawel Leszkowicz on gay art and politics in Poland in the G&LR’s May-June 2003 issue.
MoreScandal Brewing in Lincoln Country
The possibility that Abraham Lincoln had sexual relations with other men has been broached in the past, and new research is tending to corroborate the thesis that he did. As one might expect, many Lincoln scholars are bitterly opposed to this view, so it is perhaps not surprising that there’s been a recent flurry of interest in Lincoln’s relations with women. Beneath this renewed preoccupation with Abe’s heterosexual dalliances, then, there lurks a subtext that has everything to do with his homosexual ones. – The Editor
MoreWhen Nathaniel Met Herman
The following article first appeared in The Boston Phoenix, August 22-28, 2003 issue.
MoreThe Fairy Tale of Edward II
IT HAS BEEN a strange life after death, that of Edward of Caernarfon, born in Wales on April 25, 1284, St. Mark’s Day in the Catholic faith. This is…More