Some of the Sights
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts Edited by Claude J. Summers Cleis Press. 373 pages, $29.95 (paper) THE 200 ENTRIES in The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual…More
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November-December 2004
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A Big Life Writ Large
In Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters, theatre historian Richard Mangan has compiled reams of Gielgud’s extant letters from 1912 to 1999, which offer a one-sided conversation with everyone from Martin Hensler, Gielgud’s longtime lover, to Judith Anderson and Noël Coward.
MoreSex Markets and the City
The Sexual Organization of the City Edited by Edward O. Laumann, Stephen Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Yim University of Chicago Press 418 pages, $35. HBO’s…More
‘It’s really about the search for love’
BORN AUGUST 7, 1975, Charlize Theron grew up in South Africa during the last years of apartheid. Her first love was dancing, but after a knee injury she began to…More
Sharecropper’s Daughter
Alice Walker’s autobiographical essays have been widely published, and the video of her life (Alice Walker) is eye-opening for its depiction of the Jim Crow world of her childhood, where there were “whites-only” and “colored” drinking fountains, restrooms, and building entrances and exits.
MoreWhat really happened at the Stonewall Inn?
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter St. Martin’s Press. 352 pages. $24.95 THE STONEWALL RIOTS of June 28 to July 3, 1969, following…More
The Lesbian between the Lines
In Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire, Amy Villarejo, an Associate Professor at Cornell University, takes the quest for lesbian visibility on a journey beyond the bounds of what we know for sure.
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The Essentials of Heaven
ALAN HOLLINGHURST’S new novel, The Line of Beauty, begins in 1983, just when The Swimming Pool Library left off—though its leading man is not the confident cocksman of the first book.
MoreThe New Post-Straight
DESPITE the wedding band on her finger and all the other conventional markers of femininity—the makeup, the dress, the pretty, delicate features that would make most people read her…More
Upper West Side Story
AMONG THE MANY THINGS of which gay men have been accused is one, at least, that is true: that we often move into and invade somewhat impoverished neighborhoods of…More