A Writer Who Peaked Early
… Literary anecdotes about Glenway Wescott abound. …
MoreBrowsing: January-February 2009
January-February 2009
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Passages of Artists and Activists in 2008
As is our annual tradition, we remember the lives and accomplishments of some notable members of the GLBT community and allies who died during the past year.
MoreThe Election: Presidential Promise and the Heartbreak of Prop 8
Views on Proposition 8
MoreDomestication and Its Discontents
THE IDEA that madness brings you closer to God and to the creative spirit seems a holdover from the 1970’s, arguably our last “romantic” era. Today, the idea and the era are both quite dead. I’m reminded of this fact by the current revival of Peter Shaffer’s Equus, which pits Apollonian and Dionysian forces against each other
MoreThe Devolution of a Diva
CHER has a long history in Las Vegas.
MoreIs Katy ‘I Kissed a Girl’ Perry Homophobic?
THE SAPPHIC HIT SONG of last summer, “I Kissed a Girl,” is sung by Katy Perry, a minister’s daughter and Santa Barbara native whose debut song, “One of the Boys,” continues to inhabit the charts. No other straight songstress has so clearly captured the arousing unease that follows one’s first same-sex kiss.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of Stray Dog Winter, Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems, and Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara.
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Continental Divide
Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States by David Rayside University of Toronto Press. 440 pages, $35. THE 49TH PARALLEL…More
Days of Wine and Retail
CLAYTON LITTLEWOOD and his partner Jorge owned an outlet of the now defunct designer clothing chain, Dirty White Boy, in the heart of London’s gay mecca, Old Compton Street in Soho.
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A Bishop’s Calling
WAS your Sunday School teacher right about there being a loving God, or does the Bible condemn homosexuality as an “abomination”? Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop of the Anglican Church, discusses this question at length in his new book, In the Eye of the Storm.
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