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The Gay & Lesbian Review
January–February 2014 • VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 1 WORLDWIDE
poeMS & DepaRtMentS
tennessee and Sexual exploitation 12 RAyMOND-JEAN F RONTAIN
The theme of sympathy versus selfishness suffuses Williams’ plays
Fifty Years after City of Night 15 MARK M ERLIS
How has John Rechy’s novel held up since the Bad Review of 1963?
1964: the Birth of Gay theater 17 DARREN PATRICK BLANEy
Lanford Wilson and Robert Patrick were headlining at Caffe Cino
The Front Runner’s Long Run 24 PATRICIA NELL WARREN
It was the author’s own marathons that inspired the landmark novel
thirty Years of HIv Research 26 JOHN-MANUEL ANDRIOTE
From Robert Gallo’s 1984 discovery to current prospects for a cure
on Being Drafted 29 ANDREW HOLLERAN
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ revived the dilemmas of the Vietnam War era
‘Marriage is an engine of advancement’ 31 EVAN WOLFSON
Tim Miller talks with the founder of Freedom to Marry
My Stroke 37 EDMUND WHITE
How to survive a spinal event—and the U.S. health care system
c ontentS
FeatuReS
RevIeWS
CorreSPoNdeNCe 5
in Memoriam — Honoring GLBT Notables Who Died in 2013 6 MARTHA E. STONE
in Memoriam — John Mitzel: Writer, Bookseller, Boston Institution 10 MICHAEL BRONSKI
BTw 11 R ICHARD SCHNEIDER JR .
Poem — “A Girl Called Tomorrow” 16 BRIAN PARRISH
Graphic Memoir —A Glad Day 22 ERIC ORNER
Poem — “A Farewell to Arms” 38 JERL SURRATT
international Spectrum — Saudi Arabia: Shari’a Law Meets Reality 41 RICHARD yUILL
CUlTUrAl CAleNdAr 60
Artist’s Profile — Joshua Sanchez: On Making the Movie Four 64 I RENE JAVORS
Robert Craft — Stravinsky: discoveries and Memories 40 ALFRED CORN
Saul Friedländer — Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt 42 yOAV SIVAN
James McCourt — lasting City: The Anatomy of Nostalgia 44 RICHARD CANNING
Gilles Herrada — The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex love 45 TOBy JOHNSON
BrieFS 46
Carl Rollyson — Amy lowell Anew: A Biography 48 DIANE ELLEN H AMER
David Plante — Becoming a londoner: A diary 49 ANDREW HOLLERAN
David Bret — Greta Garbo: divine Star 52 JAMES PATTERSON
David Leavitt — The Two Hotel Francforts 54 CHARLES GREEN
Frank Browning — The Monk and the Skeptic 54 JIM NAWROCKI
David Levithan — Two Boys Kissing 56 HEATHER SEGGEL
Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd — To eat: A Country life 56 TERRI SCHLICHENMEyER
Colin R. Johnson — Just Queer Folks 57 DALE W. BOyER
Jesse Bering — Perv: The Sexual deviant in Us All 58 STEPHEN HEMRICK
Kamal Al-Solaylee — intolerable: A Memoir of extremes 58 MATTHEW HAyS
Two French films: Stranger by the lake and Blue is the warmest Color 62 ALLEN ELLENzWEIG
Cher — Closer to the Truth (an album) 66 JOHN R. KILLACKy
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