Gay Advertising Goes Mainstream: Now What?
POLITICS AND POP CULTURE have always played off each other in advertising, and nowhere has that link been more clear than in gay-targeted ads. Over the past four…More
Browsing: January-February 2005
January-February 2005
Blog Posts
A Movie That Started with a Billboard
SEX IS RARELY DISCUSSED in Bolivia because of the country’s extremely macho Roman Catholic culture, and sexual minorities have a history of being viewed as undesirables who live outside of society’s moral code. But perhaps this part of Bolivia’s homophobic culture is beginning to change, due in small part, perhaps, to director Rodrigo Bellott’s success with his Bolivian-American film, Sexual Dependency. …
MoreThat Lip-Synching Feeling
Callas Forever Directed by Franco Zeffirelli Scenario by Martin Sherman FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, the director who brought TV audiences the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth and movie audiences Mel Gibson…More
McGreevey’s Ghosts
THE ISSUE OF THE CLOSET comes and goes in gay life. After lying dormant for at least a decade, it had a brief revival this summer when two Washington…More
The Election: Theories and Lamentations
November 3, 2004 Oh dear God please not again. Oh dear God please don’t let it be all convoluted and depressing and messy and stupid and please don’t let…More
Did same-sex marriage doom Kerry?
IN THE 2004 presidential election, sixty percent of the voters said that they supported same-sex marriage or civil unions and 37 percent opposed any form of legal recognition for…More
Letters to the Editor
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SOCIAL RESEARCH on GLBT people has begun to provide the kind of detailed knowledge base that’s been available for other minorities for many decades, so at last we can…More
Passages 2004
We remember here some of the notable GLBT people—and one non-gay person—who contributed importantly to literature, the arts, and the sciences during their lives, and who died during the…More
The Lives of Lesbian Elders
The following excerpt is the Conclusion to a new book entitled The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Haworth Press), which describes the four authors’ research on…More