The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2002

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2002

January-February, 2002: "After the Fall". (Cutting Edge).
January 1, 2002... The events of last September continue to swallow our consciousness more-or-less whole, commanding us to watch entirely too much CNN, to re-evaluate our daily routines, and perhaps even to contemplate questions about the future of civilization...

Correspondence.
January 1, 2002... Dear Editor: I salute you for the idea and content of the issue [Sept.-Oct. 2001] on writers and artists in the "closet" period of the 20th century. Yet simultaneously I deplore the omission of an author who seems to be crying out for...

Btw.
January 1, 2002... The difference a few days makes. A case that's been working its way through the courts in Kansas reveals what can happen when you combine an overzealous age-of-consent law with a lack of equal protection for same-sex sexual relations--and throw...

The Face of Atta. (Essay).(an appreciation of American civil rights)
January 1, 2002... MAN lives, Erik Erikson wrote, by the Carnival-Atonement cycle--and it's hard to argue against the impression that before September 11, 2001, the United States of America was on a toot. In fact it seems now, two months later, as if what we were...

"Telling the truth will give it a shape.": Christopher Hennessy converses with Cavafy's translator. (Interview).(Interview)
January 1, 2002... Constantine P. Cavafy is widely regarded as the greatest of the modern Greek poets. Moreover; he has served as a constant source of inspiration for other poets of the 20th century, and arguably a special font of influence for gay male poets....

Blowback. (Essay).(Afghanistan under the Taliban)
January 1, 2002... WHO would have thought that the Pashtun people of south-central Afghanistan, from which the Taliban draw the bulk of their forces, have long exhibited a decided taste for homosexuality? Or that Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold ruled by the...

Who Pays the Price of War? (Essay).(Afghanistan Conflict)
January 1, 2002... I WAS born in Pakistan to a Muslim family. I'm a lesbian. And I'm the executive director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). In the last two months I've been asked to speak and write about Islam, about Pakistan,...

Gay Rights in the Clash of Civilizations. (Essay).(after September 11)
January 1, 2002... RETREATING British troops played "The World Turned Upside Down" after the Battle of Yorktown, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War in 1781. There was no doubt, at the time or since, that the success of the American Revolution had...

Gay Lebanon. (Essay).
January 1, 2002... DURING the summer of 1998, I returned to Beirut to visit my family and to get to know how the situation of gay people has changed since the civil war ended, and what social, religious, and political developments they can possibly look forward...

Prospects for Progress in Arab Lands. (Essay).
January 1, 2002... THROUGH much of their history, the Muslim nations have been relatively tolerant of personal behavior, but with two strict exceptions: don't oppose the government, and don't try to liberate women. Even as the West was in its Dark Ages, the...

Be very afraid--of loss of liberty at home. (Essay).
January 1, 2002... JUDGING by what I see in the media, it's hard to know that America is at war. Other than bombing raids and anthrax scares at the top of the news, and flags fluttering on cars (already a bit tattered), and ongoing fundraising for U.S. victims of...

Sexual Freedom in an Age of Fear. (Essay).(after Spetember 11)
January 1, 2002... ON one level, it seemed reasonable enough--what Bush and Ashcroft asked for, what Congress granted them. Given the extraordinary nature of the attacks of September 11, given the extraordinary need of the nation to protect itself from the...

To Her Female Husband.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... "Nature robbed you, son" your barber said today, He lathered and shaved you anyway-- you tip him for his tongue and his technique. He's not the first to comment on your boyish straight razor stilled by your beardless check. ...

War Fever and Gay Resistance. (Manifesto).(Column)
January 1, 2002... The day after the World Trade Center collapsed, I noticed many gay people at the gym and on the streets of West Hollywood wearing American flag T-shirts and attaching flags to their cars. I talked to some of these newborn patriots and found...

Fear & Trembling at an Ex-Gay Confab. (Essay).(reporter attends Focus on the Family conference)
January 1, 2002... PARANOIA. That's the first feeling that struck me when I got my registration letter from Focus on the Family for "Love Won Out," described as the group's "dynamic one-day conference... promoting the truth that homosexuality is preventable and...

Looking at Langston's Works. (Books).(The Collected Works of Langston Hughes)
January 1, 2002... The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volumes 1 to 3 (of 12) Edited by Arnold Rampersad University of Missouri Press LANGSTON Hughes wrote in his words that are a godsend to anyone who considers writing as a profession: "Hang...

How the High Court Finally Came Around. (Books).(Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court)
January 1, 2002... Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price THE year is 2001 and chances are good that you're reading this review in the subway, at a cafe, or in some equally public place. You might have...

Who Was Doing Whom, Way Back When. (Books).(The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood)
January 1, 2002... The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan LA Weekly Book for St. Martin's press 440 pages, $26.95 GOSSIP lovers will find this book to be a treasure trove. Even though the gossip is about women (and men) who raced...

The Old and the Antiquarian. (Books).(How Many Die)
January 1, 2002... How Many Die by R. D. Skillings Hardscrabble Books (University Press of New England) 318 pages, $24.95 WHAT do you do with a grand old touring car, a Bentley, say, lovingly restored, but with an engine so balky it sputters along...

Camera Obscura. (Books).(Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969)
January 1, 2002... Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 by William J. Mann Viking. 422 pages, $29.95 IN the introduction to his groundbreaking book The Celluloid Closet, Vito Russo said that his exploration of gay...

More Tales of the Likeable and the Loopy. (Books).(True Enough)
January 1, 2002... True Enough by Stephen McCauley Simon & Schuster. 314 pages, $24. STEPHEN McCauley has built a solid fan base over the years with his seriocomic tales of gay life in the big city. He is perhaps best known for The Object of My...

Homophobia without the Gay People. (Books).(The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights)
January 1, 2002... The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights by Arlene Stein Beacon Press. 267 pages, $27.50 AMONG the varieties of American innocence that were lost on September 11, perhaps...

The Nova Scotian. (Provincetown 1998).(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Black clouds, this late afternoon, continue to block the sky. You point to the patch of blue. "It'll all blow over." Alone on the dune's crest, we stand our ground exposed--brief sprinkles the daylong downpour's only...

In Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality (St. Martin's Press), art historian Micha Ramakers chronicles the evolution of the body in Tom's work. (Briefs).
January 1, 2002... Born Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), Tom of Finland's visions of happy, masculine, loving men projected forth from the collective unconscious of gay men's liberation and increasingly, through the second half of the 20th century, defined much of...

Filmmaker Jay Corcoran, whose earlier documentary, Life and Death on the A List, met with critical acclaim, has made a new film called Undetectable. (Briefs).
January 1, 2002... Filmmaker Jay Corcoran, whose earlier documentary, Life and Death on the A List, met with critical acclaim, has made a new film called Undetectable, a remarkably intimate study of six people coping with AIDS as a manageable disease. The film...

Journalist Ricardo J. Brown's slim memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940's (University of Minnesota Press) is the story of one man's life as a patron of Kirmser's bar in St. Paul. (Briefs).
January 1, 2002... Journalist Ricardo J. Brown's slim memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940's (University of Minnesota Press) is the story of one man's life as a patron of Kirmser's bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1945 to 1946. Brown...

Back in Arenas's Castro's Cuba..(Mona and Other Tales)
January 1, 2002... Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas Translated by Dolores M. Koch Vintage. 190 pages, $12 (paper) WHICH is worse: to be permanently unable to leave your beloved, oppressive homeland, or to be unable ever to return to it? This...

Stories People Promulgate.(The Marble Quilt)
January 1, 2002... The Marble Quilt by David Leavitt Houghton Muffin. 241 pages, $25. The nine artfully crafted stories of The Marble Quilt are marked by David Leavitt's characteristic intelligence and grace. Whether navigating the Jamesian terrain...

Native Men in Love.(Drowning in Fire)
January 1, 2002... Drowning in Fire by Craig S. Womack University of Arizona Press. 280 pages. $35. ($17.95 paper) The lives of Native Americans have long been on the outer margins of GLBT studies, except perhaps as romantic fetishes for earthy New...

She Was a Visitor.(Light, Coming Back)
January 1, 2002... Light, Coming Back by Ann Wadsworth Alyson Books. 332 pages, $24.95 Set in Boston in the early 1990's, this is the story of a triangle. Mercedes Medina is a 59-year-old part-time academician married to an almost-famous cellist....

The Invented Hitler.(The Hidden Hitler)
January 1, 2002... The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan (translated by John Brownjohn) Basic Books (Perseus). 321 pages, $26. Christian fundamentalists are going to have a field day with The Hidden Hitler, Lothar Machtan's investigation into the...

The Irreconcilables.(Trembling Before G-d)
January 1, 2002... Trembling Before G-d Directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski Simcha Leib Productions and Turbulent Arts Joe Lieberman, recent candidate for Vice President, looked like an affable American, a condition that was never undercut by the momentous...

Steven at 50. (For S.B.).(Poem)
January 1, 2002... The chili pepper lights glowed like our small festive years, the campy blandishments of a spicy past as Julio danced in hula drag some Malaysian princess high on rum so by one a.m. we took to the roof to marvel at the...

Women and Art: A Boston Marriage. (Arts).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "I predict a moment when the term 'Women in Art' will be as strange sounding a topic as the title 'Men in Art' would be now," wrote painter Cecilia...