The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from July 2001

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from July 2001

July August, 2001: "Body Culture".(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... If "body culture" sounds like a grab-bag category to enclose an eclectic group of articles, then to some extent it is. The intersection of the words "body" and "culture" would seem to carve out a rather wide-open space for interpretation. ...

Correspondence.
July 1, 2001... Dear Editor: In her article "Can a Woman Be a Man On-Screen" [March-April 2001] Denise Noe incorrectly stated that "Sallie Tilden" was the star of Derek Jarman's "Orlando." In fact, Tilda Swinton played Virginia Woolf's eponymous hero/ine,...

Gay Bait and Switch.(attitudes of Rep. Allen Trovillion)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... It was supposed to be one of those class trips that doubles as a civics lesson for the students and a photo-op for a politician reaching out to his diverse constituents. But when a group of gay and lesbian teens from a Florida high school...

The Tables Turned.(anti-gay protest transformed into fund raiser)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The adage about making lemonade when you have a lemon was never better fulfilled than by an Ann Arbor gay bar owner who faced the prospect of a visit from the ever-creepy Rev. Fred Phelps, who makes a life out of picketing gay venues with his...

Damn the Data, Full Speed Ahead!(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... In its zeal to promote "family values," all the rage under the new Administration, the Census Bureau issued a press release in April bearing the happy title, "The 'Nuclear Family' Rebounds," claiming that the "traditional" family--comprised of...

The Unborn vs. the Bottom Line.(abortion, religion, and population control in China)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Theologians of the far Right have taken a very dim view of "situational ethics" and the moral relativism it betokens. It therefore came as a surprise when Pat Robertson refused to criticize China's policy of forced abortion after a woman's...

Without Winks or Nods.(homosexuality in beer advertising)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Ambiguously gay duos have appeared in TV commercials before, but a recently aired ad for Miller Lite takes the "ambi" out of ambiguous. As described by GLAAD, the ad, entitled "Switcheroo" (it turns out ads have names), "features two women...

Lesbian Sports Connection.(women's basketball team hosts event at gay bar)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... In keeping with the theme of this issue, let it be noted that Los Angeles's professional women's basketball team, the LA Sparks (sister team to the Lakers), staged one of their major season kick-off events last May at the lesbian nightclub Girl...

Sports and Lesbian Culture.(Interview)
July 1, 2001... The three participants in this panel discussion are all women who have had a lot to say about the role of sports and outdoor activities in lesbian culture and in individual development. All three, as it happens, have contributed to this...

Body Double.
July 1, 2001... YEARS ago, when AIDS first surfaced, William F. Buckley Jr. proposed in a column that HIV-positive men have that fact tattooed on their buttocks. The buttocks were a nice touch. It implied that ordinary folk in public would not see it, only the...

The Gym Body and Heroic Myth.
July 1, 2001... As a young man I had a persistent fantasy about an all-boys summer camp where the athletic inmates had nothing to do except perform bonding rituals with me. Together, alone in the wilderness, we would perform heroic acts of friendship and...

Living with HIV, 1992-Present.(life of a gay man with HIV)
July 1, 2001... IN 1992 I learned that I was HIV-positive. This news started me on a deep inner search and launched the biggest learning experience of my life. I had gone through a depression earlier in my life, even before the HIV came along. I had spent...

Ecstasy: The Love Drug.
July 1, 2001... WILL it bring passion, or will it bring grief? This is a question that more and more people are asking themselves nowadays about the drug known as Ecstasy, as its use continues to reach epidemic proportions worldwide, most particularly among...

Desire as identity / identity as desire.(Poem)
July 1, 2001... i thought i was post-identity. i no longer cared -- if i ever did -- about etiology; about whether sex was in the genes or in the mothering. it was in my jeans and it nurtured me. and either way, i figured, those who were against...

Body Norms in Lesbian Culture.(body image and mental health)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... The following is adapted from an article that first appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 3, Number 4, 1999. IN a number of open forums I conducted on the topic of lesbian beauty, enthusiasm and ambivalence collided to create a...

Hustler-ized.
July 1, 2001... IT all started innocently enough. I got a call from a guy named Stephen Johnson. He was writing a story about sex and developmental disability, a topic that had interested me for some time. He had done a Web search and come across a couple of...

Steroids and the Pursuit of Bigness.
July 1, 2001... THE perfected gym body has become a universally recognized icon in contemporary gay male society, and the internalization of this body image has had a widespread impact upon how many gay men feel about themselves. As a psychotherapist with a...

Charles Atlas.(Poem)
July 1, 2001... He is young in the photograph and naked, staring off to his left in a pose. Brown edged and soft, his hair gleams back from his Roman face. One curl, as it dangled by his nautilus ear of perfect eros, makes him...

Sweet Plumes of Youth.(The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume 1 (1920-1945) )(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume 1 (1920-1945) Edited by Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler New Directions. 581 pages, $37. IN July of 1928, Thomas Lanier Williams, seventeen years old, embarked on a trip to...

Serendipity from A to Z.(Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II;)(Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day)(Review)
July 1, 2001... 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 Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day Edited...

Love Is a Map I Must Not Set on Fire.
July 1, 2001... When I take you in flurries the lights go out. Stars come out. You come out again. Love is under the bed, a children's monster. The dildo gleams. We hold knives in our hands. When I take you in words we reinvent categories. ...

The British Are Coming--Or Are They?(reviews of 4 books)(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Abomination Paul Golding Knopf. 516 pages, $26. The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin Scribner. 288 pages, $13. (paper) Embrace Mark Behr Little Brown (UK) 540 pages, $22.95 Canadian Rough Music...

Reflections in a Golden Boy's Eye.(Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer AEsthetic)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer AEsthetic By Steven Bruhm University of Minnesota Press 225 pages. $17.95 (paper) AMONG the many quips for which Oscar Wilde is famous, one of his best is surely a reply to Edward Carson, Q.C., at his...

Dazzler and Uncle Mame.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Striking similarities abound when comparing Moss Hart and Patrick Dennis, the subjects of two recent biographies. Dazzler (Knopf) by Steven Bach and Uncle Mame (St. Martin's Press) by Eric Myers cover the lives of two outrageously talented,...

Just One Time.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Just One Time is a movie about a New York City opposite-sex couple who are very much in love and scheduled to marry in ten days. Prior to exchanging vows before a priest, Anthony (played by Lane Janger, the director and co-writer of the film)...

Endangered Species.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Louis Bayard's second novel, Endangered Species, introduces us to thirty-something, angst-ridden Nick Broome in his sometimes funny, sometimes poignant quest to father a child. Nick, of course, is gay, and while he has two siblings, neither is...

Private Spaces Made Public.(Squares and Courtyards: Poems)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Squares and Courtyards: Poems by Marilyn Hacker IN Squares and Courtyards, Marilyn Hacker's ninth collection, fixed poetic forms are the foundation for her diverse material. It is meter and rhythm that allow Hacker to bring her...

Costa Rica: Political Progress, Cultural Lag.
July 1, 2001... Costa Rican lesbians and gay men have made significant gains in the last ten years. Although a gay traveler who was here in 1990 would hardly recognize gay life today, paradoxes still abound. Gay and lesbian life may now be legally protected...

A Modern Allegory, Part 2.(Creating Man)(Review)
July 1, 2001... by Michael G. Cornelius Vinyard Press. 213 pages, $18.95 Michael G. Cornelius's engaging first novel continues the story of the creation as told in Genesis. After God rests on the seventh day and sighs on the eighth, the archangel...

When Freshpeople Dream.
July 1, 2001... Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg Ferrar Straus & Giroux. 264 pages, $22. As a novelist of sexual awakening, Sylvia Brownrigg continues to break new ground. Her last novel, The Metaphysical Touch, made cyberspace sexy without any...

A Crisis of Two Continents.(The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities)(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities Edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms Alyson Publications. 460 pages, $16.95 The latest HIV statistics for the U.S. disclose an alarming disparity in the incidence of the disease...

Writers Talking Shop.(Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists )(Review)
July 1, 2001... Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists by Richard Canning Columbia University Press. 352 pages, $49.50 Even the most serious bibliophile can read only so many commentaries on the art of fiction, even brilliant ones, before...

Memorable Forgotten Poet.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck by John W. M. Hallock University of Wisconsin Press. 226 pages. $19.95 Why should we be interested in the now obscure poet Fitz-Greene Halleck? Born in 1790 in Guilford,...

Pastoral Poet of the City.(Mr. Bluebird: Poems)(Review)
July 1, 2001... Mr. Bluebird: Poems by Gerry Gomez Pearl berg Painted Leaf Press. 84 pages, $12.95 (paper) In this volume Gerry Gomez Pearlberg takes Mother Nature to task and stitches her up in grandiose gowns adorned in layer upon layer of...

Complaint.(Poem)
July 1, 2001... Brandon, you keep me awake, turning the whole house into a lover. You and your men, your sighs through the heating duct. Its wide moaning throat calls to my bedroom over yours. Years after you move away this house ...