The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2004

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2004

January-February 2004: tenth anniversary issue.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... So begins our eleventh year of publication, a symbolic crossing that relatively few journals of this kind ever make. Our success is due above all to our readers--to the fact that there is a readership out there for a journal that's full of...

D.H. Lawrence's ashes were not eaten!(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the Editor: I would like to comment on the article by Alfred Corn, "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" [Nov.-Dec. '03], specifically on his story about Witter Bynner eating D. H. Lawrence's ashes. I believe I can say that the story is not...

The G&LR and I.
January 1, 2004... In 1993, two life-changing events tilted the see-saw of my life from the clouds (a spectacular love affair) to the Slough of Despond (surgery for a non-cancerous brain tumor, followed by the end of said romance). Late in the latter period I was...

Klaus Mann's suicide; Thomas's tendencies.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the Editor, I'd like to add some gossip to Laurence Senelick's fascinating, informative essay on Klaus Mann (Nov.-Dec. 2003), which largely limits itself to Klaus's early years. Someone in the same intelligence unit during World War...

Timing of Henry VIII's sodomy law matters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the Editor: Congratulations on a superb issue [Nov.-Dec. '03] commenting on the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas! Alas, the guest opinion piece repeats an error of English law made in Justice Anthony...

No closet for Delaney and Baldwin.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the Editor: Gay poet Harold Norse writes in his autobiography about the black gay painter Beauford Delaney: In 1943, "Another painter I met at the fountain I had read about in [Henry] Miller's monograph "The Amazing and Invaluable...

What would Jesus fund?(BTW)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... A previous BTW reported on how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have come under increasing scrutiny by right-wing members of Congress, who've been challenging grant proposals for AIDS research and other areas related to sexual behavior....

Proposition.(BTW)
January 1, 2004... The extremism of a preacher's diatribes against immorality is directly proportional to the perversity of his own sexual longings. The evidence: that such fantasies are so frequently acted upon, even against all sanity given the consequences of...

Don't ask, don't tell, talk dirty to Me.(BTW)
January 1, 2004... Chalk another one up to the law of unintended consequences. Reports from the U.S. military suggest that one result of "Don't ask, don't tell" is that heterosexual soldiers are going to extremes to avoid saying anything that could possibly be...

Dolls in the fast lane.(BTW)
January 1, 2004... Persistent rumors about Ken of Barbie-and-Ken fame notwithstanding, no one has ever tried to mass-market a doll that was actually out as gay. But that's all changed now that an Australian company has come out with just such a doll--two dolls,...

Down in Dixie.(BTW)
January 1, 2004... About those rumors concerning the sexual orientation of Ken, one college administrator took matters into its own hands when an art professor posted his series of ten largeish photos of Ken and his pal G.I. Joe embracing and holding hands. The...

That was the marriage protection week that was.(BTW)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Occasionally science can be helpful in proving what we already know, or at least strongly suspect. Last fall a number of conservative religious groups got Congress to sponsor, and President Bush to endorse, something called "marriage protection...

A year of passages for GLBT artists and writers.(In Memoriam)
January 1, 2004... The past year saw an especially large number of deaths of notable lesbians and gay men, including many prominent artists and writers. The following list, while clearly not exhaustive, mentions some of the people who passed away and highlights...

The day after.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... THE DAY AFTER I gave this talk to the Harvard gay and lesbian alumni/ae group, I was taken to lunch in Dunster House by some undergraduates. After filling our trays on the serving line, we all sat down together at what was evidently a "gay...

My Harvard.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... FROM Winter, 1994 Freshman year I was dating a woman I'd gone to high school with who was at Wellesley. Each Saturday night we would return from the French film we'd double-dated at, and stand before her dorm, while the other couples...

Chihuly Rose.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Chihuly Rose What is broken in your will be whole again in the half-light where you turn away from the gun and the vermilion fantasy of the gun Where you imagine a woman's mouth creating within you a room of high...

Please pass the pepper.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... TEN YEARS AGO, during the Christmas break from teaching, I read Bruce Bawer's A Place at the Table, which had just come out, and it so angered me that I sat down and wrote an open letter to him. I had no idea who might publish it or whether it...

A place for the rest of us: an open letter to Bruce Bawer.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... FROM Spring, 1994 DEAR BRUCE, I've read your book, A Place at The Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, and some of the reviews of it. A few of the reviews I've read have been positive, but none of them, I think, has been...

What became of 'freedom summer'?(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... WHEN I WROTE THIS, I was an active founder of the Lesbian Avengers, an international organization that trained thousands of lesbians in direct action techniques. It was at the 1993 March on Washington that the Avengers and ACT-UP Women's...

Freedom summer.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... FROM Summer, 1994 GAYS AND LESBIANS are more visible today than we may have predicted even fifteen years ago. But that visibility has not brought the kind of acceptance and integration that we imagined. Many formerly underground aspects of...

The unmaking of a movement.(Essay)
January 1, 2004... READING THESE EXCERPTS from an interview done with me a decade ago, I was surprised at how much anger I felt over the state of our purported Gay Nation in 2004. Anger at the current political focus of our national organizations on the issues of...

The making of a myth: an interview with Martin Duberman.(Essay)(Interview)
January 1, 2004... FROM Summer, 1994 HGLR: The decade leading up to Stonewall, the 1960's, takes up almost two-thirds of your book [Stonewall, E.P. Dutton, 1993] and provides the backdrop against which the Stonewall Riots occurred. Perhaps you could describe...

Taking the fun out of fundamentalism.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... REREADING "My Life as a Christian," which would later become a play that I last performed in the previous millennium under the title, The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched, I was haunted by the arguments that I didn't make....

My life as a Christian.(Essay/Excerpt)
January 1, 2004... IN 1973 I saw Jesus. I know what you're thinking. You live in Manhattan. Sooner or later you bump into everyone. And that's true. The other day I did see Cardinal O'Connor buying a knish in front of the Plaza Hotel, but that didn't change my...

Dissent in Ashcroft's America.(Essay)
January 1, 2004... RECENTLY an Advocate.com commentary returned to an explosive issue of the last decade--the resurgence of unsafe sex among gay men. Theater, producer and AIDS activist Jordan Roth urged: "We must Act Up again! We... need to scream bloody...

Alphabet soup in Provincetown.(Essay)
January 1, 2004... HOW LONG is ten years in the life of a black gay male? It's the difference between 51 (when, because people were always telling me, You don t look fifty. I would have thought you were 39, or--maybe--42," and, on good days, I believed them, I'd...

The Combination.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The Combination Silent, Dot heaves herself onto the bed, eyes, hips, and pale, heavy breasts let by the stuttering bodega candle-- Rembrandt's Saskia, except for her set mouth. neither of us has done this sober much....

Will success spoil gay culture?(Essay)
January 1, 2004... TEN YEARS AGO, the AIDS crisis dominated the discourse and the psyches of the gay male community in America. Friends and lovers had died or were dying. Ten years ago, sodomy was illegal in a large majority of the states. Although these laws...

Going native.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle by Lois W. Banner Knopf. 540 pages, $30. MARGARET MEAD (1901-1978) is a fixture in the American imagination: a superhero of anthropology; intrepid explorer; a woman leaps and...

A connoisseur of other people's business.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 Introduction by Hugo Vickers Alfred A. Knopf. 489 pages, $35. CECIL BEATON was many things: photographer, writer, artist, designer. His stage sets and costumes...

Ned Rorem, composer, diarist, at eighty.(Artist's Profile)
January 1, 2004... "So we know at the very beginning how it's going to end." Ned Rorem said of his first opera, Miss Julie, which he composed in 1965 from the play by August Strindberg and which was revived in November by students at the Curtis Institute of Music...

Was Wilde just the product of his times?(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions Edited by Joseph Bristow Univ. of Toronto Press. 334 pages, $60. Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire by Jeff Nunokawa Princeton Univ. Press 164 pages, $17.95 (paper) TWO NEW...

They shared everything except this book.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, A Life by Stephen Harold Riggins Insomniac Press 310 pages, $16.95 (paper) STEPHEN HAROLD RIGGINS and Paul Bouissac have shared an interesting life, having traveled the world and crossed paths with such...

Painted warriors of Kandahar.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Taliban Photographs by Thomas Dworzak Essays by Dworzak, John Lee Anderson, Thomas Rees Trolley Books (UK) 128 pages (illustrations), $24.95 ARRIVING IN KANDAHAR in July 2001, photographer Thomas Dworzak intended to ask Afghans to sift...

The Parts of You.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The Parts of You Came the diving gull, splashing like horses Running across a shallow stream. You're back, you've dissolved again disappeared like the hanged man's dream: All your features, curved, as if etched In...

You decide.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography by John Ibson Smithsonian Institution Press 237 pages, $32.95 SOMETIMES a hobby brings unexpected rewards, as in the case of John Ibson, an American studies...

The Butch mystique.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls, and Other Renegades by Catherine Smith and Cynthia Grieg Henry N. Abrams. 184 pages, $35. THIS beautiful volume of terrific black and white photographs, printed on thick, glossy paper, brings to life...

Silence ='ed death.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... While the World Sleeps: Writing from the First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague. Edited by Chris Bull Thunder's Mouth Press. 421 pages, $16.95 WHILE the World Sleeps is a collection of previously published essays about AIDS from...

What else did they acquire?(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone by Mary Gabriel Bancroft Press. 256 pages, $35. OF THE MANY women who figured in the lives of Gertrude Stein and her circle in the early 20th century, the Cone sisters--fabulously...

What might have been.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin Edited by Devon W.Carbado and Donald Weise Cleis Press, 355 pages, $16.95, paper THIS AUGUST marked the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at...

Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... by Anthony Slide Haworth Press, 204 pp., $49.95 ($24.95 paper) Slide offers plot summaries and contemporary reviews of fifty novels that appeared in the U.S. during the first half of the last century and are largely forgotten today. Most of...

That's Why They're in Cages, People.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... by Joel Perry Alyson Publications. 309 pp., $14.95 (paper) From the strobe-lit mind of writer and producer Joel Perry, author of Funny That Way and Going Down: The Instinct Guide to Oral Sex, this collection of essays--which mull over such...

Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2004... by Steven Watson Pantheon. 512 pp., $27.50 Steven Watson is a cultural historian whose numerous books focus on the modernist impulse and its manifestations in 20th-century America. His first book, Strange Bedfellows, explored the...

Mix two stereotypes and voila!(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... Mambo Italiano Directed by Emile Gaudreault Cinemaginaire Inc. (Canada) Equinox Films (Canada) STEREOTYPES never really go out of style, although the PC police may take the heat off one group or another for a time. Amos 'n' Andy is taken...