More ‘Monsters’ and Memories
THIS IS THE SECOND PART of my interview with Edmund White, in which he discusses two books that have recently been released: Jack Holmes and His Friend, a novel; and Sacred Monsters …
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March-April 2012
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One Woman’s Mitzvah
… Filled with wisdom, humor, and the kind of contentment that only comes when an author has found his or her rightful place in the world, The Choosing is one of those books that leaves you feeling oddly serene, as if you’ve been gently counseled at length by someone of the Cloth. …
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Word Is Out and the World It Transformed
TOWARD THE END of the 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, Pat Bond remarks that “one of the depressing things about lesbians being accepted is that we lose our sense of the ‘in’ group, the adventure of being different in a straight world.”
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Gi Hyeong-do, Korean Poet, Out in the World
… the first Korean same-sex writer to reach a global audience will be Gi Hyeong-do (1960-1989), a well-known poet to Koreans who famously died at age 29 in a gay sex theatre in Seoul’s hidden gay district. …
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Barbara Grier, Activist and Founder of Naiad Press
DESCRIBING herself as not particularly easy to get along with, remembered by one well-known writer as “irascible and cantankerous,” Barbara Grier (1933-2011) was also remembered as visionary and courageous, generous, kind, and nurturing to writers. …
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More‘Gay Rights are Human Rights,’ U.S. Affirms
IN HONOR of Human Rights Day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a stunning speech in December 2011 in Geneva, committing the United States to the protection and encouragement of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. …
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Blue Ridge and Red Clay
THE NEW self-titled album from North Carolina’s Mount Moriah announces in its instrumental introduction on the first track, ‘Only Way Out,’ that its roots are planted firmly in the red clay of the American South. …
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Love and Marriage in Two NYC Debuts
Two plays: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays and Friends and Relations
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