All Sides of a Triangle
Dying City by Christopher Shinn Produced by Lincoln Center Theater ATTENDING A PERFORMANCE of this new drama by Christopher Shinn is something like watching a traffic accident in…More
Browsing: July-August 2007
July-August 2007
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Short Reviews
Short reviews of Call Me By Your Name, The Mosaic Virus, Men Who Love Men, What Becomes You, Boston Boys Club, and Gay Travels in the Muslim World.
MoreDame Edna: Drag act or performance artist?
DAME EDNA EVERAGE is the only Tony Award-winning star who quizzes the audience and insults what they wear. Galumphing about the stage in a sensationally outré gown, purple hair and rhinestone-winged glasses, she razzes latecomers and asks them to identify themselves.
MoreLa Vie en James
How Henry James juggled his Balzac and Flaubert in Paris
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OD’ing on Being John Malkovich
… Colour Me Kubrick tells [Alan] Conway’s story. And it should have been a fascinating film. It might have said a great deal about the cult of celebrity, about a little man’s yearning to be a big one, about belief and gullibility, about the psychological and emotional relationships between con men and their marks. …
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The Kirstein Century
On the centenary of the man who brought ballet to America
MoreBig Gains in GLBT Rights from Coast to Coast
The 2007 state legislative season has been the most productive in the history of the GLBT rights movement. For the first time in our history more than half of the U.S. population will live in jurisdictions that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
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The Left Coast
In Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, Daniel Hurewitz reconstructs the world of Edendale’s gay men, artists, and leftists, and sketches the origins of modern identity politics.
MoreCan This Reader Be Saved?
The following remarks were offered by the author at a panel discussion comprised of G&LR contributors at the Equality Forum conference in Philadelphia in May. Moderated by editor Richard Schneider, the other panelists were Andrew Holleran, Mark Merlis, and Natalie Hope McDonald … much of the discussion focused on the continued viability of literary gay fiction in an era of declining readership, burgeoning media options, and GLBT assimilationism.
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