The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2003

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2003

January-February 2003: visual modalities.
January 1, 2003... It is a commonplace that the invention of photography transformed painting, but it's also true that its invention transformed society and people's understanding of it. While photography's literalism rendered the whole European realist tradition...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... RECLAIMING THE WORD "GAY" To the Editors: It is clear that Tamarah Cohen does not want to be referred to as "gay" ("'Gay' and the Disappearing [+Female], Nov.-Dec. 2002). Most homosexual women I know like to be known as both "gay" and...

2002: a year of historic passages. (In Memoriam).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... A number of prominent gay and lesbian writers, artists, and activists passed away in 2002, among them the following. Kevyn Aucoin, makeup artist to the stars and author or co-author of several coffee table books, was forty when he succumbed...

Secrets of Bikini Bottom. (BTW).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Not since Jerry Falwell "outed" Tinky Winky the Teletubby a few years ago has a cartoon character generated this much controversy, but recent rumors about SpongeBob SquarePants of Nickelodeon TV have, if nothing else, confirmed the human...

Enron family values. (BTW).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Previously in this space we noted that one of the key players in the Enron scandal was a gay man, Michael Kopper, and we wondered if there wasn't more to the story than met the eye. Why would a Houston company with close ties to the Bush...

Two in ten. (BTW).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A recent Gallop Poll has found that Americans believe on average that fully one in five people is gay or lesbian (with men at 21 percent, women at 22). Of course, the actual number of GLBT people is still hotly contested fifty years after...

The law laid bare. (BTW).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A group of seven men who were arrested for marching in the buff in a Gay Pride Day parade in Toronto last summer have now been tried for their crime. And the verdict? Not guilty. The Toronto law under which they were charged condemns "being...

Not likely to succeed. (BTW).(UK Royal Navy's crackdown on gays in the late 1960s)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The recent release of classified admiralty files in the UK reveal that the Royal Navy ordered a secret crackdown on gay sailors and officers in the late 1960's after an internal inquiry concluded that homosexuality was "rife" throughout the...

Word power. (BTW).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A man was arrested in San Francisco for defacing 607 books, which he variously slashed, cut cats' eyes into, crammed with Christian pamphlets, or, stranger still, stuffed with covers torn from romance novels. Most of the books he trashed were...

Lend me your ears. (In Memoriam).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... HARRY HAY pulled his Greek fisherman's cap over his broad forehead. He'd just read an article on gay history containing so many assumptions he disagreed with that he barely knew where to begin arguing. He fiddled with his long strand of...

Robert Giard: portrait of a photographer. (Essay-In Memoriam).(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... TWO WEEKS AFTER the death of the photographer Robert Giard this past summer, I was asked to call several friends of his, unknown to me, who might not yet have heard the bad news. It was also an occasion to inform them of the memorial service...

The women of Weimar. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... Adapted from essays that appear in the forthcoming volume, The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin, published by Feral House of Los Angeles, CA. IF PARIS WAS historically the city of love, 1920's Berlin was the metropolis of "Girlkultur."...

I was a Sexual Switzerland.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... I Was a Sexual Switzerland CAROL ROSENFELD a neutral observer of the War Between the Sexes I had no more care for human copulation than cows lowing in alpine meadows dotted with edelweiss my life passed precisely...

Buy this diagnosis! HIV marketing folklore. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... "Keep everyone afraid and they'll consume." Marilyn Manson UNTIL LATE in the 20th century, gay men were almost as invisible in the media as lesbians. We began to be discovered by corporate America some time in the mid-1970's, and by...

When Haring met Andy. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... ANDY WARHOL and Keith Haring met in person in 1983, near the end of the senior artist's career but still in the flowering of Haring's all-too-brief life (he died in 1990). What seems to have excited Warhol most about the younger artist was his...

Harold Norse's poetic imagination. (Artist's Profile).
January 1, 2003... Harold Norse is one of those writers whose life is itself a work of art. While a student in New York in the late 1930's, Norse was an intimate of Chester Kallman and W. H. Auden. He also befriended the yet-undiscovered James Baldwin and...

At the intersection of museum and sex. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... CAN THE TERMS "museum" and "sex" legitimately be put together in one descriptive title? The New York State Board of Regents, which controls access to the official Empire State moniker of "Museum" (and, not insignificantly, to the nonprofit...

Duane Michals: photographer, storyteller. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... IN DUANE MICHALS' 1973 nine-image photographic sequence entitled "Things Are Queer," the depicted objects and model (and a viewer's perception of them) change scale increasingly with Magrittian surreality as the sequence is followed, but there...

A Maori writer in two worlds. (Essay).
January 1, 2003... WITI IHIMAERA was born in 1944, in Gisborne, New Zealand, into the Te Aitanga A Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, and Ngati Porou tribes. The New Zealand writer and poet Bill Manhire once noted that if Moby Dick were translated into the Maori language,...

The Novelist as Critic. (Books).(Love in a Dark Time and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Love in a Dark Time and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature By Colm Toibin Scribner. 261 pages, $24. BEING IRISH--and, to a lesser extent, being gay and an artist--is the subject of award-winning novelist Colm Toibin's...

The French have a Word for it--At Last! (Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Homosexuality in French History and Culture Edited by Jeffrey Merrick and Michael Sibalis Harrington Park Press. 203 pages, $24.95 IT IS EASY these days to envy French homosexuals. In addition to having all the basic...

Ecstasy.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... Ecstasy J. E. ROBINSON The heat makes us go. Stifling, like a starched shirt, It bids us to disrobe and stand naked in the window, dripping. A cube of ice passes over our lips and cools them. It feels electric, like the...

Back to a Place She had Fled. (Books).(The Chelsea Whistle)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea Seal Press. 296 pages, $14.95 IN MICHELLE TEA'S memoir The Chelsea Whistle, the author takes us back to her childhood as we find her growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a small, multicultural,...

Free the Sinner. .(Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Tolerance)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Tolerance by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini NYU Press. 152 pages, 21.95 "THE TOLERANCE of 'love the sinner, hate the sin' is antidemocratic," declare Janet Jakobsen and Ann...

The Third Genital. (Books).(Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman Applause Books. 496 pages, $29.95 DAVID KAUFMAN'S Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam is a big book that reads very easily....

Mean Streets, Tender Hearts. (Books).(This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... This Thing Called Courage: South Boston Stories by J. G. Hayes Southern Tier Editions (Haworth). 246 pages, $17.95. I SHOULD imagine readers of gay-themed short stories--and God help us, their writers too--must be sick to the teeth...

Of Baths and Battlefields. (Books).(Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present; Bathing in Public in the Ancient World)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present Edited by B. R. Burg NYU Press. 436 pages, $65. ($19.95 paper) Bathing in Public in the Ancient World by Garrett G. Fagan University of Michigan...

Dreaming Constructively. (Books).(Famous Builder)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Famous Builder by Paul Lisicky Graywolf Press. 200 pages, $15. FAMOUS Builder, a volume of memoirs by Paul Lisicky, collects a series of interwoven essays that address the construction and reconstruction of self against the...

Practicing What They Preach. (Books).(Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America Dan Savage Dutton. 302 pages, $23.95 THIS October, gay writer Dan Savage's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, hosted by conservative...

Who's In, Who's Out. (Books).(Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II; Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II Edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon Routledge. 502 pages, $29.95 Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day ...

Pleasure.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... Pleasure REGINALD SHEPHERD The crocus I callously plucked from its rosette of crackled frost in someone's yard, because it was officially the first of spring and I had yet to flower, teaches a little lesson, wilting in the...

Two Ways to Lose a Lover. (Books).(All We Have Is Now)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... All We Have Is Now by Robert Taylor St. Martins Press. 295 pages, $24.95 ONE of the lingering effects of the plague years on gay fiction is that the theme of loss and survival has persisted--even when the plague itself is nowhere...

Aging Gracefully. (Books).(Perfect Mondays)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Perfect Mondays by Stanley E. Ely Painted Leaf Press. 271 pages, $15.95 Fear of aging in our society is such that you can't pick up a newspaper, watch a TV sitcom, buy a birthday card, or look in the mirror without confronting the...

Love's Learning Place: Truth as Aphrodisiac in Women's Long-Term Relationships. (Briefs).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Truth and childhood needs, power and control in relationships, fetishes and secret erogenous zones--these are some of the themes explored by Renate Stendhal in Love's Learning Place: Truth as Aphrodisiac in Women's Long-Term Relationships...

Masculine Interests: Homoerotics In Hollywood Film. (Briefs).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Robert Lang, in his new book, Masculine Interests: Homoerotics In Hollywood Film (Columbia University Press) articulates the big screen's dedication to eroticism between men, especially in movies that now belong to the film canon. He considers...

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. (Briefs).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Dan Healey's Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (University of Chicago Press) is a milestone, not only for Russian GLBT history but also for gay and lesbian studies in general. Despite the...

Conferences/events.(Calendar)
January 1, 2003... Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference X Will be held at American University in Washington, Feb. 14-16, 2003. For more info, e-mail wlm@american.edu; or visit www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages. Equality Forum conference will be held...

Announcements.
January 1, 2003... Summer Artist-In-Residence Program, a collaboration between Cape Cod National Seashore and the Provincetown Community Compact is offering a $500 fellowship for artists and writers. Includes one and three week residencies beginning April 1,...

English artists in the midday sun. (Arts).
January 1, 2003... Exposed: The Victorian Nude Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (until Jan. 5,2003) Book catalogue by Alison Smith Tate Publishing. 288 pages, $45. THE VICTORIANS were great with words but uninspired with paint. Yet because they were...