The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2005

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2005

Jan.-Feb. 2005: "The People Gay 2".
January 1, 2005... "The People Gay 2"--so-named because it reprises the theme of our Spring 2000 Issue--comes at a time of much soul-searching in the GLBT community. The outcome of the election was devastating enough for rank-and-file supporters of John Kerry,...

The election: theories and lamentations.(GUEST OPINIONS)
January 1, 2005... November 3, 2004 Oh dear God please not again. Oh dear God please don't let it be all convoluted and depressing and messy and stupid and please don't let it all embarrass us on an international level all over again even more than it...

Reply to critics.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: I enjoyed reading R. E. Tippet's intriguing letter and Calvin Skagg's snippy one in the November-December issue in response to my review of Colm Toibin's The Master in the previous issue. Thank you, R. E. Tippett--I do...

Author's corrections.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: I was pleased to read Janet Mason's review of my biography, Alice Walker: A Life, in the current issue [Nov.-Dec. 2004]. However, an otherwise informative review was marred by several factual errors that, to my mind, could...

A post-identity society?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: I like to take ideas as far as they will go. They only get there mentally, for in the real world there are those mischievous "intervening variables." So, let's take all those people written about in "The New Post-Straight"...

Picano slights women's early role.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: In regard to Felice Picano's review in the November-December issue of the G & LR, "Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality," I propose a follow-up article. How about "Beyond Misogyny and Sour...

The women of gay porn.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: After reading "Straight Pen for Gay Men" by Karen Thomas, I felt compelled to let people know that the phenomenon of heterosexual women writing graphic porn about male-male sex is not really all that unusual, at least in the...

Gay Republican taken to task.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... To the Editor: The election is over and your "Election Issue" [Sept.-Oct. 2004] a distant memory, but I nevertheless want to respond to the Log Cabin Republican, Chris Barron, whose article filled me with alarm, and still does. If this...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2005... A feature in the May-June 2004 issue, "New Pedagogy on Ancient Pederasty," by Beert Verstraete, assigned a quotation to Marilyn Skinner that actually belongs to Nancy Rabinowitz. They're the two co-authors of a book the author was citing in...

Passages 2004.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... We remember here some of the notable GLBT people--and one non-gay person--who contributed importantly to literature, the arts, and the sciences during their lives, and who died during the past year. Gloria Anzaldua was 61 when she died on...

Fun with family values.(BTW)(homophobia)
January 1, 2005... The scales of poetic justice were operating in an otherwise gloomy political season, as the progeny of a number of famously homophobic public figures came out of the closet in a very big way. 1. Sadie Fields Doubtless the most spectacular...

But the thrill is gone.(BTW)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... "Outing is back," declared an article in the San Francisco Chronicle--that controversial practice from the 1980's whereby famous gay people would be dragged out of the closet kicking and screaming by some pissed-off gay journalist or ACT-UP...

On the fecundity of aunts.(BTW)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... For those who believe that homosexuality is governed by a genetic component, there has always been one big mystery. How can we explain the perpetuation of this sexual orientation, given that those having it are clearly less likely to produce...

Name that dildo.(BTW)(cases)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The scandal involving Bill O'Reilly's phone-sex escapades with Fox News employee Andrea Mackris failed to produce the hoped-for tapes of the talk-show host's words and moans. But it did produce as part of the permanent record a legal complaint...

McGreevey's ghosts.(ESSAY)(James E. McGreevey)
January 1, 2005... THE ISSUE OF THE CLOSET comes and goes in gay life. After lying dormant for at least a decade, it had a brief revival this summer when two Washington activists threatened to out people on the staff of Congressmen who supported the Federal...

Did same-sex marriage doom Kerry?(ESSAY)(John Kerry)
January 1, 2005... IN THE 2004 presidential election, sixty percent of the voters said that they supported same-sex marriage or civil unions and 37 percent opposed any form of legal recognition for same-sex relationships. Under normal circumstances in American...

Survey says ...(ESSAY)
January 1, 2005... SOCIAL RESEARCH on GLBT people has begun to provide the kind of detailed knowledge base that's been available for other minorities for many decades, so at last we can start to answer some of the basic questions that define this group as...

Origami heart.(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
January 1, 2005... First, a ring from nothing but a dollar bill and dime, spare change set in folds of green. Then Easter lilies from cocktail napkins, swans from movie stubs. I should have known right there eventually he would bring...

The gay market goes mainstream.(ESSAY)
January 1, 2005... POLITICS AND POP CULTURE have always played off each other in advertising, and nowhere has that link been clearer than in gay-targeted ads. Over the past four decades, while gay men and lesbians emerged from invisible to marginal to actively...

The lives of lesbian elders.(ESSAY)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2005... The following excerpt is the Conclusion to a new book entitled The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Haworth Press), which describes the four authors' research on older lesbians in the U.S. They interviewed a total of 62...

Found: 85,000 black gay households.(ESSAY)
January 1, 2005... ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS frequently claim that equal rights for gay and lesbian people are a threat to the civil rights of groups they deem "legitimate minorities," including African-Americans. For example, one flier distributed by a coalition of...

The power of data, the price of exclusion.(ESSAY)
January 1, 2005... LAST JUNE, a special issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) focused on suicide with the stated goal "to provide insights that might lead to successful prevention programs." The issue included articles on trends in suicide by...

The sociology of barebacking.(ESSAY)
January 1, 2005... THE QUESTION of whether sex "is worth dying for" was posed by Michel Foucault in his History of Sexuality and speaks directly to why, in the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, gay men are still taking sexual risks. Beginning in the mid-1980's,...

Finding love in Chelsea.(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
January 1, 2005... To the right of the porn star & just above the drag queen, You go-go-boyed on roller skates, when I saw your picture in the back of HX magazine. As "Rollerboy" you made the backpage weekend "SEEN," Pointed out by a love-rich, ill-read...

Makers and shakers of gay literature: Jim Nawrocki talks with an essayist known for his novels.(INTERVIEW)(Interview)
January 1, 2005... EDMUND WHITE'S latest book, Arts and Letters, brings together 39 essays spanning nearly twenty years in the career of one of America's most accomplished men of letters. In addition to his autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story. The...

John Waters: the finger on the pulse.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(interview)(Interview)
January 1, 2005... In postwar Baltimore, where he was born in 1946 and went to Catholic school, John Waters was an unusual child. The Wizard of Oz may have been his favorite movie, but he rooted for the Wicked Witch. "I even tried dressing up like the Witch to...

Feast your eyes!(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Queer Movie Poster Book by Jenni Olson Chronicle Books. 132 pages, $19.95. WRITER and filmmaker Jenni Olson's Queer Movie Poster Book is a colorful and often witty look back at many of the images that have represented--or...

The music man.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer by Leta E. Miller & Fredric Lieberman University of Illinois Press 381 pages, $35 (paper) LOU HARRISON'S DEATH on February 2, 2003, left a gap in the classical music world. Ned...

I, too.(poem)(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
January 1, 2005... (Honoring Langston Hughes) In my land there are lots of songs that move to the cadence of "No" and "Not so soon" Some are woeful laments others winged hallelujahs But none have to do with waiting on Jesus. In my land...

And the Beats go on.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex Edited by Regina Marler Cleis Press 209 pages, $16.95 (paper) THE GROUP of postwar American writers known as the Beat Generation, of whom the best known are Jack Kerouac,...

Oscar Wilde's clubkid.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gutterboys by Alvin Orloff Manic D Press. 220 pages, $13.95 (paper) ALVIN ORLOFF'S latest novel is yet another of his wonderfully whimsical yet astutely political gay tales. Set in the early 1980's, Gutterboys is the coming-of-age...

White-iana.(BOOKS)(Arts and Letters)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Arts and Letters by Edmund White Cleis Press. 360 pages, $24.95 ARTS AND LETTERS is a collection of previously published articles, essays, and book reviews, some of which were rewritten, reworked, or updated for this compilation....

Fancy meeting you here.(Alexandria: City of Memory)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag Yale University Press. 367 pages, $35. IT IS with considerable authority that Michael Haag offers his latest book, Alexandria: City of Memory. Haag has written several guides to Egypt, is...

Macedonian shtick.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Alexander the Fabulous: The Man Who Brought the World to Its Knees by Michael Alvear Alyson Books. 200 pages, $14.95 (paper) FOR THE ONLY TIME in history the known world was ruled by one man: Alexander the Great. Considered one of...

A movie that started with a billboard.(FILM)(Movie Review)
January 1, 2005... Sexual Dependency (Dependencia Sexual) Written by Rodrigo Bellott and Lenell N. Moise Directed by Rodrigo Bellott DVD Distributed by Wellspring SEX IS RARELY DISCUSSED in Bolivia because of the country's extremely macho Roman...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference--the 12th annual--will be held at American University, Feb. 11-13, 2005. For more info, visit: www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages. Inter-sexuality symposium will be held in New York City on...

That lip-synching feeling.(FILM)(Movie Review)
January 1, 2005... Callas Forever Directed by Franco Zeffirelli Scenario by Martin Sherman FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, the director who brought TV audiences the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth and movie audiences Mel Gibson as the Sweet Prince in Hamlet and...