Fancy Meeting You Here
Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag Yale University Press. 367 pages, $35. IT IS with considerable authority that Michael Haag offers his latest book, Alexandria: City of…More
Browsing: January-February 2005
January-February 2005
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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
And the Beats Go On
Ellis Amburn’s 1998 book Subterranean Kerouac, for example, delved deeply into the writer’s ambiguous sexuality. Regina Marler’s new anthology, Queer Beats, breaks new ground in chronicling Beat sexuality.
MoreThe Music Man
[Lou] Harrison came out as gay during the McCarthy era and immediately began attending the early meetings of SIR, the Society for Individual Rights, in San Francisco. He took poetry workshops from the poet Robert Duncan and, at SIR meetings, taught Ned Rorem how to do the Charleston. Duncan’s 1944 essay “The Homosexual in Society” touched on feelings of self-deprecation and alienation.
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Feast Your Eyes!
The Queer Movie Poster Book is definitely a coffee-table book, suitable for flipping through at random or as a cocktail-party conversation piece, but it’s more than mere eye candy, providing a valuable visual history of gay and lesbian culture in the movies.
MoreMakers and Shakers of Gay Literature
EDMUND WHITE’S latest book, Arts and Letters, brings together 39 essays spanning nearly twenty years in the career of one of America’s most accomplished men of letters. In addition…More
The Sociology of Barebacking
THE QUESTION of whether sex “is worth dying for” was posed by Michel Foucault in his History of Sexuality and speaks directly to why, in the third decade of…More
The Power of Data, the Price of Exclusion
LAST JUNE, a special issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) focused on suicide with the stated goal “to provide insights that might lead to successful prevention programs.”…More
Found: 85,000 Black Gay Households
ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS frequently claim that equal rights for gay and lesbian people are a threat to the civil rights of groups they deem “legitimate minorities,” including African-Americans. For example,…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