Not for Every Coffee Table
Art—A Sex Book John Waters and Bruce Hainley Thames & Hudson 208 pages, $29.95 (paper) The comedies of John Waters are practical exercises in æsthetic philosophy. This theme…More
Browsing: Outings and Innings
March – April, 2004
Will 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
Loving Him Madly
The Concrete Sky: A Novel by Marshall Moore Southern Tier/Harrington Park Press. 274 pages, $17.95 THE TITLE of Marshall Moore’s debut novel, The Concrete Sky, brings to mind…More
Scandal 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
MoreDid Being Gay Matter?
The First Time I Met Frank O’Hara: Reading Gay American Writers by Rick Whitaker Four Walls Eight Windows. 231 pages, $20. Rick Whitaker introduces the essays in his…More
Whitman’s Sailors and Other Friends
The following is offered as part of an effort to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass on July 4, 2005. Additional material can be found on a website maintained by the author (www.LeavesofGrass.org) for this purpose.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of The Strange Case Of Edward Gorey, The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial, Contemporary Dynamic Approaches, and Natural Trouble.
MoreWhen Nathaniel Met Herman
The following article first appeared in The Boston Phoenix, August 22-28, 2003 issue.
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Hunks in the Hollow
War Against the Animals by Paul Russell St. Martin’s Press. 358 pages, $24.95 THE PREMISE of Paul Russell’s fifth novel, War Against the Animals, quickly unspools to reveal…More
The 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