The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from January 2006

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from January 2006

January-February 2006: "Internet nation".(technology)
January 1, 2006... No one doubts the power and promise of the Internet to impact people's lives for the better--and surely we ain't seen nothin' yet, to take a line from the first "talking picture." The question for us--as perhaps for any generation living at...

UN policy on domestic partners thaws a bit.(GUEST OPINION)(United Nations)
January 1, 2006... Within the GLBT community, misunderstanding as to what the UN can reasonably be expected to accomplish is at least as pervasive as it is in other communities. The UN is not a world government. It is an inter-governmental organization comprised...

Same-sex domestic violence: is anyone listening?(GUEST OPINION)
January 1, 2006... Domestic violence is understood to be the use of any instrumentality to control a household member, including physical harm or its threat, isolation from friends and family, economic deprivation, sexual assaults, destruction of property,...

Anachronistic Whitman.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... Dear Editor, Richard Tayson's "Manly Love" [Sept.-Oct. 2005 issue] presents a confused and confusing account of poet Walt Whitman's sexuality. After favorably citing Robert K. Martin's claim that "prior to Whitman there were homosexual...

Who's shunning labels?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... To the Editor: Ritch Savin-Williams, in his article in the November-December 2005 issue, questions the notion that gay youth can be understood as a "class." This precaution does not stop him, however, from making freewheeling...

The finer points of Asian dating.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... To the Editor: In his essay, "Gay Asian-American Male Seeks Home" in the September-October 2005 issue, Chong-suk Han erroneously defines a "rice queen" as an exploitive older white male. In reality rice queens are African-Americans,...

Care due when citing Clement's letter.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2006... To the Editor: Judging from Douglas Sadownick's review (Nov.-Dec. 05 issue), Will Roscoe's Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love, draws heavily on Morton Smith's writings to reconstruct a shamanistic tradition involving...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2006... Due to an editing error in Raymond-Jean Frontain's article on Tennessee Williams in the Nov.-Dec. 05 issue ("The Tiger Within," page 41), the first name of Alexandra del Largo in Sweet Bird of Youth was incorrectly identified as Alexis. We...

Mysterious ways.(Ellen Degeneres)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Reporting on Pat Robertson's geographic fatwas has become sport for the mainstream media, the latest being his curse upon a town in Pennsylvania after it voted off the board of education all eight members who'd promoted "intelligent design" in...

Fox's matchmaker.(BTW)
January 1, 2006... An odd moment occurred last fall on Fox News--it could only have happened on Fox--when interviewer James Rosen got Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to let her hair down just a little, and closed with what seemed to be--what else could it...

Don't tell (seriously).(gay military personnel)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... It must be indicative of something that while, under the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, disclosing that you're gay used to trigger an immediate separation process, now it's being preemptively ignored. What it indicates is that...

Follow-up on the news.(cases of oral sex)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Some time ago it was reported here that a barely eighteen boy in Kansas had been convicted for having consensual oral sex with another boy only slightly younger than himself, but technically a minor. Because the sex involved another male, the...

Deep in the heart.(Tim Smith fired from Baylor University Business School )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Back in Texas, things continued their retrograde ways as Baylor University Business School dismissed an advisor from its alumni board solely because he's gay. Nor did they pull any punches about their reasons for doing so. The guy they fired,...

Underlying the underlying agenda ...(gay rights)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... It's long been a truism that the far Right's talk of "family values" is a term of art for opposition to gay rights, so laws ostensibly designed to "protect the family" or "defend marriage" really have a purely negative goal aimed at one group....

Passages 2005.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... There were far too many deaths in our community of arts, letters, and politics in late 2004 and in 2005. Herewith is our annual tribute. Leroy F. Aarons, the founder and first president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists...

Laptops and loneliness.(computer has changed gay life)
January 1, 2006... IT'S HARD to pinpoint exactly the way in which the computer has changed gay life. The gay community as we knew it in the 1970's and 80's would have vanished anyway (though it's hard to admit): AIDS, assimilation, generational shifts would have...

Cosmedics.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... She met James on a blind date her first month in the city. And had him sized up after twenty minutes on her dingy East Village sofa. Her warm hand in his cool pants: Dude, what's the deal? When he cried, she patted his back, chomping...

Anti-gay politics on the Web.(internet use)
January 1, 2006... This article was excerpted and adapted from one that first appeared in Sexuality Research & Social Policy: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center, an on-line academic journal. Copyright [c] 2005 by the National Sexuality Research Center,...

Fly on the Web: when performance goes on-line.(ART MEMO)
January 1, 2006... THE POWER of performance art--its ability to connect with you viscerally--is in the fact that it's performed live. You the viewer may or may not commit to the performer on stage (or wherever), but when you do, there's no hiding the effect....

Pricked.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... He phones and his name jangles on caller-id accompanied by the stentorian tones of an accordion Traviata ill-picked to announce him... as if the Roman lettering screaming out his presence wasn't jolting enough; and then as casual...

The heart of a virtual hunter.(gay culture)
January 1, 2006... HUMANITY HAS WITNESSED over the past thirty years two world-changing developments of epochal importance: the spread of the AIDS pandemic and the coming of the Internet. At its most severe, AIDS has changed the social, political, spiritual, and...

Palestine and "World Pride 2005".(INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM)(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender )
January 1, 2006... AFTER the major media success and publicity in 2000 of Rome World Pride, the group behind the event, InterPride (International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Coordinators), elected the organization Jerusalem Open...

Who's hooking up on-line?(ESSAY)(Excerpt)(Reprint)
January 1, 2006... The following is excerpted and adapted from an article that first appeared in the Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 49, Number 1, 2005. SINCE THE MID-1700's, personal ads have served as a way for lonely individuals of all persuasions to find...

Harry Potter and the fan fiction phenom.(ESSAY)
January 1, 2006... FAN FICTION, in its simplest definition, is fiction written by the fans of any popular narrative, be it a novel, a TV series, or a film. While private fan fiction may be as old as fiction itself, its origins as a genre for public (albeit...

Flight.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... We were standing in Chloroxed white-walled rooms, blue blanket covering your body, standing beneath dream catcher hanging from ceiling fan, votive candles unlit, your body an ox, laboring to breathe. Ribs the rattle of a caged tiger,...

Back on the beach: Michael Ehrhardt talks with a newly revived playwright.(Edward Albee)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... PLAYWRIGHT EDWARD ALBEE and Charles Darwin are coming head-to-head (or, more appropriately, head-to-gills) this year in the Broadway revival of Albee's 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Seascape, about the unusual meeting at the seaside of two...

What was same-sex marriage?(gay and lesbian rights)
January 1, 2006... "AS HOMOSEXUALITY becomes more socially acceptable, we may even begin to find families based on homosexual 'marriages' with the partners adopting children." So said Alvin Toffler in Future Shock, the 1970 publishing sensation that introduced...

The well-tempered life story.(Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003 by Ned Rorem Shoemaker & Hoard. 332 pages, $28. LETTERS ARE both intimate and self-conscious. In them we describe our life as we would like at least one other person to know it. What...

The Crimson crucible.(Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright St. Martin's Press. 278 pages, $25.95 FEW PEOPLE alive today would be able to conceive of an American university purging its student ranks of...

The politics of penis size.(Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America by Scott Poulson-Bryant Doubleday. 224 pages (illustrated), $22.95 "HANGATURE" is a new word that you'll learn from Scott Poulson-Bryant's second book, Hung: A Meditation on...

Hunky business.(The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson)(Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson by Robert Hofler Caroll & Graf. 468 pages, $26. Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller ...

New Orleans: birthplace of lesbian romance?(ART MEMO)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... PEOPLE who love books know there is more to cherish about queer New Orleans than the raucous annual festivities of Mardi Gras or Southern decadence. In the Crescent City, Walt Whitman composed poetry under the live oaks, Tennessee Williams...

Contralateral damage.(My One-night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... My One-night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir by Tania Katan Alyson Books. 285 pages, $15.95 YOUNG WOMEN--those under forty--represent less than five percent of all women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, according to the American...

Voices of transformation.(Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs Edited by Jonathan Ames Vintage, 319 pages, $13.95 THE TRANSGENDERED, of all the groups that might be said to fall under the umbrella term "queer," are perhaps the most...

Dandy situations.(Misfortune: A Novel)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Misfortune: A Novel by Wesley Stace Little Brown and Company. 529 pages, $23.95 WITH HIS DEBUT NOVEL, Wesley Stace (known to music lovers as John Wesley Harding) creates a world of repressed sexuality, confused identity, and...

Mixing it up.(Down For Whatever)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Down For Whatever by Frederick Smith Kensington Books. 281 pages, $14. (paper) THE BIBLE for writing quality fiction advances the following three commandments: avoid cliches, develop a distinctive voice, and show rather than tell....

Kings in Their Castles: Photographs of Queer Men at Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Kings in Their Castles: Photographs of Queer Men at Home by Tom Atwood University of Wisconsin Press. 92 pages, $35. This collective portrait of gay urban artists, writers, musicians, and designers suggests that gay men are...

Casa Susanna.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Casa Susanna Edited by Michel Hurst and Robert Swope, powerHouseBooks. 156 pages, $29.95 Sometimes, when libraries catalogue books about everyday life, they use the notation "Homes and Haunts." I can't think of a better way to...

Tim Kirkman: storyteller of human complexity.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... WRITER-DIRECTOR Tim Kirkman has never shied away from controversy, especially when it comes to deconstructing notions about Southern hospitality. In his theatrical debut, Dear Jesse (1996), a thirty-year-old Kirkman returns to his home state of...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... Lavender Languages annual conference will be held at American University in Washington DC, Feb. 10-12, 2006. For more info, visit www.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages. "Sex Work Matters" conference will be held March 29-30, 2006,...

Mounting Mapplethorpe.(Robert Mapplethorpe )
January 1, 2006... Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, July 1-August 24, 2005 ALTHOUGH PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Mapplethorpe has been dead for sixteen years, New York City's...