The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2001

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2001

January-February, 2001: "Battle in the Courts".
January 1, 2001... With this issue The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide commences publishing on a bimonthly basis. After seven years as a quarterly, this change will enable us to keep more up-to-date with books and the arts as well as with intellectual currents....

The Right's New Big Stick: The First Amendment.
January 1, 2001... Much of the litigation for lesbian and gay rights to date has involved claims grounded in the First Amendment. This is hardly surprising, since the act of coming out--which is an act of speech--has been the most common event to trigger...

Eastern Europe Makes a Stand.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The following is the first in what we plan to make a regular department in the new G&LR as we go bimonthly: an international column that features articles from writers around the world reporting on their country or region's GLBT political...

Pee-gate.
January 1, 2001... "Outing" may not be your game, but this one's hard to argue with. Ever since his picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1998, John Paulk has been the poster boy for the ex-gay movement, as well as chairman of the North American Board of...

Your AOL Dollar at Work.(America Online's donation to anti-gay programs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... America Online's reputation as a gay-friendly company lost some luster when it was revealed that AOL chairman Steve Case's private foundation had donated eight million dollars to a church that funds an ex-gay ministry. The money was donated to...

A Latter-Day Tuskegee?
January 1, 2001... A nine-year blind HIV prevalence study of gay men at sexually transmitted disease clinics in New York City was condemned as "Tuskegee-like" after its findings were presented to the recent AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. The report...

Police Outing Actionable.
January 1, 2001... A mother whose teenage son committed suicide shortly after police in Minersville, Pennsylvania (pop. 5,000), threatened to disclose that he was gay can now take her wrongful death case to trial. Marcus Wayman was just two months away from...

There's the Rub.
January 1, 2001... We've been hearing for years that sex can be "deconstructed," but that's only according to exponents of "queer theory." Now, in actual practice on the other hand... Well, there is an effort underway to de- and reconstruct the sexual practices...

Gay Rights and the Rehnquist Court.
January 1, 2001... THE year before William Rehnquist became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Court issued its opinion in the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, upholding the constitutionality of Georgia's sodomy law. In the thirteen years of the...

Why the Boy Scouts Case Went Down.(Interview)
January 1, 2001... It was Evan Wolfson who went before the Supreme Court last summer to argue the case against the Boy Scouts of America in the discrimination lawsuit of James Dale, the scoutmaster who was thrown out of scouting ten years ago for being openly...

Chokecherries.(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Thirty feet from my windows, an old kennel-wire fence thickly grown over with honeysuckle, poison ivy, and wild roses just beginning to open into the loose sort of droopy garlands an aesthetic young farmer might...

When your harasser is another man.
January 1, 2001... IMAGINE the following scenario: Your name is Chris and you've just started a new job working in an office dominated by men. Although you love the work you're doing there, you're beginning to dread going to work in the morning because your male...

David Mixner's Brave Journeys.(Interview)
January 1, 2001... David Mixner, author, political activist, and one-time advisor to President Clinton, has recently authored--with collaborator Dennis Bailey--a book entitled Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage (Bantam Books, 2000). This...

Matthew's Murderers' Defense.(Matthew Shepard)
January 1, 2001... IN the early morning hours of October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, was bludgeoned to near-death with the butt of a pistol and lashed to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie. After discovery of his body...

How We Did on the 2000 Ballots.
January 1, 2001... THE presidential election for president remains in limbo at the time of this writing, but a number of states have decided on candidates and ballot initiatives of immediate interest to lesbian and gay voters. Initiatives appeared on the ballot...

Omelette.(Poem)
January 1, 2001... - You can't break eggs without making an omelette. - That's what they tell the eggs. Randall Jarrell, "War" First, chop an onion and saute it separately in melted butter, unsalted, preferably. Add mushrooms (add girolles...

When Plagues Don't End.(1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning book)(Review)
January 1, 2001... THE impulse to compare Michael Cunningham's The Hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) with the book that inspired it, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, surfaced in reviews long before the novel won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. As critics...

Correspondence of a Compulsive Chronicler.(Review)
January 1, 2001... 1984: Selected Letters by Samuel Delany Voyant Publishing. 351 pages, $17.95 ON the face of it, Samuel Delany's 1984 is a simple enough book, but reading it is a complexing thrilling experience. Delany, an indefatigable letter...

Where Art Meets Politics.
January 1, 2001... Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond Rizzoli, 208 pages, $50. HARMONY Hammond launches her latest contribution to the art world, Lesbian Art in American: A Contemporary History, with the single-minded...

No More Mr. Care Bear.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing by David Leavitt Houghton Mifflin. 387 pages, $26. IN a 1989 review of Equal Affections, David Leavitt's third book, James Wolcott wrote, "Timidity is Leavitt's biggest built-in limitation as a...

Wars and Spirits.
January 1, 2001... The Notorious Dr. August, His Real Life & Crimes Christopher Bram William Morrow. 496 pages, $26. IF many gay novels these days are actually thinly-veiled memoirs, Christopher Bram's latest, The Notorious Dr. August, His Real Life...

Boze Hadleigh has been publishing gossipy books about gay celebrity and cinema for nearly two decades.
January 1, 2001... Boze Hadleigh has been publishing gossipy books about gay celebrity and cinema for nearly two decades. Two of his best-known books, Hollywood Gays and Hollywood Lesbians are collections of his interviews with gay and bisexual stars in which...

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
January 1, 2001... "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it," was the late Tallulah Bankhead's pithy self assessment. If she could witness Kathleen Turner attempting to portray her in Tallulah (directed by Michael Lessac), Bankhead...

In Many Roads Traveled: The Autobiography of John C. Graves (self-published).
January 1, 2001... In Many Roads Traveled: The Autobiography of John C. Graves (self-published), the author has penned a piquant picture of a privileged person who stoically endured one disappointment after another. Raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side by a...

Liberace, Mon Amour.(biography of Liberace)(Review)
January 1, 2001... Liberace: An American Boy by Darden Asbury Pyron University of Chicago Press 482 pages, $27.50 I intended to take Liberace seriously, but I had no burning affection for the subject," Darden Asbury Pyron writes in his preface...

Male on Male Action for Girls.
January 1, 2001... I had heard that straight Japanese women liked male homoerotic romances, were more evident as consumers of gay fiction than gay men were, but I had no idea what an understatement it was. Comic books (or mango) are a major slice--perhaps forty...

Runs in the Family.
January 1, 2001... Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece by Joan Schenkar Basic Books. 400 pages, $30. When Dolly (nee Dorothy) Wilde died at age 46, she was the same age as her father and her Uncle Oscar had been...

Cultures Not Colliding.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Bridge Across the Ocean By Randy Boyd West Beach Books. 305 pages, $12.95 Randy Boyd ventures into new territory with his second novel, Bridge Across the Ocean. His first novel, Uprising (1998), was a suspense thriller a la Robert...

The Young & the Reckless.
January 1, 2001... Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris Doubleday. 271 pages, $19.95 Surely nothing holds more gut-wrenching drama than a bride who gets jilted moments before her wedding--or so author E. Lynn Harris wants us to believe: the sheer...

High Femme Story.
January 1, 2001... My Dangerous Desires: A queer girl dreaming her way home by Amber Hollibaugh Duke University Press. 272 pages, $17.95 I first became conscious of my lesbian feelings while watching a porn movie with my husband and two friends,...

Deathbed Convergence.
January 1, 2001... The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin Scribner. 273 pages, $24. The Blackwater Lightship is Colm Toibin's fourth novel and follows his widely acclaimed The Story of the Night (1996), an absorbing political work set in Argentina...

High Seas of Cyberspace.
January 1, 2001... The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson Knopf. 244 pages, $24. Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, The PowerBook, is an exciting continuation of themes the author has addressed in her earlier works. The PowerBook is both electronic and...

This is the end, my friend.
January 1, 2001... Michael by Henry Flesh Akashic Books. 150 pages, $12.95 In Henry Flesh's new novel, Michael, we view the apocalypse through the eyes of Stephen, an isolated, sick, overweight, unemployed 49-year-old man who lives in New York's...

Lots of Plots.
January 1, 2001... A Year of Full Moons by Madelyn Arnold St. Martin's Press. 304 pages, $25.95 Madelyn Arnold sets her new novel, A Year of Full Moons, in the small town of Summit, Kentucky, in 1963. The story focuses on a single year in the life...

Fun for Fans.
January 1, 2001... Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Little, Brown. 272 pages, $22.95 Full disclosure: I confess to being the only person who didn't like David Sedaris's last book, Naked, and had heard before reading Me Talk Pretty One Day...

Before Center City.(book about gays in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)(Review)
January 1, 2001... City of Sister and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 by Marc Stein University of Chicago Press. 457 pages, $35. Marc Stein's fascinating study traces the history of lesbians and gay men in Philadelphia from...

Mont Proust.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Marcel Proust: A Life Jean-Yves Tadie Viking. 986 pages, $40. IMAGINE a science classroom, one of those steeply banked auditoriums at the bottom of which a tall, gaunt professor in a white coat stands at a slate tabletop covered...