The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from July 2002

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from July 2002

July-August, 2002: "the sex-priest scandal".(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This "emergency issue" is in response to the crisis that's currently rocking the U.S. Catholic Church, which started here in Boston and spread rapidly to other cities in the U.S. and abroad. Because the vast majority of cases involve sex...

The word "queer" impedes the March to equality. (Guest Opinion).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Let me congratulate the Editor of this journal for taking a stand against the use of the word "queer," and offer my own thoughts on this usage, which I have been campaigning against for some time. The following is based on a talk I gave at the...

Correspondence.
July 1, 2002... Author Replies to Critiques To the Editor: In the last issue of the G&LR, you published two letters that took strong exception to my argument in the January-February issue, to the effect that political immaturity in the Arab world was...

From the "where are they now?" File. (BTW).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Readers old enough to remember Anita Bryant may feel a twinge of nostalgia for the fabulous 70's on learning that Ms. Bryant is alive and well and living in Tennessee. Those who remember her virulent anti-gay campaign in Florida may take some...

Puppets, behave! (BTW).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Rumors about Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street have been circulating for years, so it was perhaps inevitable that someone would get the idea to spoof the pair's domestic life by taking it to its logical conclusion. Thus it came to pass that...

"Recovery" for fun and profit. (BTW).(Christian psychologist seduces gay men)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In the ongoing saga of the "ex-gay" or "Exodus" movement, the latest scandal differs from earlier ones only in it luridness--and in its aptness for this issue of the G&LR. Past cases have involved leaders of "ex-gay" groups who got caught...

Bait and switch ballot questions. (BTW).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Resourcefulness of a different kind was on display in a more liberal part of the country, where the Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage needed to collect some 57,000 signatures in order to put a question on next November's ballot that would...

Oh say can you see? (BTW).(student arrested for attempted gay flag burning)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The former student body president at the University of Idaho has been charged with trying to bum a flag stolen from a gay club on campus. The alleged culprit, Kasey Swisher (yes, that's right), was arrested along with two other students for the...

The art you (almost) didn't see: Tim Miller talks with the author of Outlaw Representation. (Interview).(Interview)
July 1, 2002... THERE'S no mistaking what's going on in this portrait of a naked man; the vintage physique photo has been censored by a slash across the model's pelvis. "The white band both arouses and frustrates our desire to see what lies beneath it, to see...

Scandal and the culture of silence. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... A dark riddle: What is the "Boston pedophilia scandal" if it's not in Boston, not typically about pedophiles, and more silence than scandal? WHEN The Boston Globe broke stories in January about Cardinal Law's repeated transfers of John...

"This belongs to Jesus": a cock tale. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... IT was as a graduate student at a very established Jesuit university that I first came into contact with priests--a lot of them. Jesuits, of course, are known as "the Pope's Marines"; they are the brightest, the most chic, the hippest of the...

Calling all gay priests. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... There is a difference between a heterosexual and homosexual candidate for the priesthood. A heterosexual candidate is taking on a good thing, becoming a priest, and giving up a good thing, the desire to have a family. A gay seminarian, even a...

Christian Gnosticism: the road not taken. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... THE current crisis in the Catholic priesthood can be traced to a number of defects in the recruitment of priests and in their education as men, but among its deeper causes is the Roman Church's early rejection of a universalizing and...

The lure of pure Spirit. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... I WAS raised a Presbyterian and schooled to be suspicious of all things Roman. And I remained deeply so until I arrived at Harvard Divinity School and endured my share of cognitive dissonance. The entire school would rush out to hear a lecture...

Late Epithalamion.(Poem)
July 1, 2002... Late Epithalamion RANDALL MANN Draped in a rainbow sash, diamond stud in his right ear, the minister lit two unity candles, his lover no help, leering at the two of us instead-- what was the smell? Vanilla? Pear? Early...

Papa was a Jehovah's Witness. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... TWO decades ago, I was among the first men to break the barrier of silence and come forward to speak openly about being sexually abused as a child. Since that time, more than a thousand victims have told me their individual stories. From them I...

Sexual liberation? Adults only, please. (Essay).
July 1, 2002... THE past 25 years have seen recurring panics over the sexual danger posed by men to children and adolescents, with a range of themes--allegations of "Satanic" abuse at daycare centers, horror stories about kiddie porn and child prostitution and...

Minors and sex: reality and denial; Steven Schwartzberg talks with the author of Harmful to Minors. (Interview).(Interview)
July 1, 2002... IN her controversial new book Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (University of Minnesota Press), Judith Levine discusses the current state of affairs pertaining to childhood and teen sexuality in America. Based on a...

Summer, 1976.(Poem)
July 1, 2002... Summer, 1976 JEFF WALT We run naked through the split-level ranch all summer with the air conditioner on High. Jamie is my favorite sitter, though he is not much older than me. His red patch of pubic hair a fire I want to...

Basting Robbins. (Books).(two books on Jerome Robbins)
July 1, 2002... Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Greg Lawrence Berkley, 622 pages, $17. (paper) Broadway: The Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors 1940 to the Present by Robert Emmet Long ...

Winning the struggle: what works. (Books).(Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights)
July 1, 2002... Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights by William Eskridge Routledge. 240 pages, $17.95 GAY rights advocates have traditionally argued their case in terms of privacy. They came from a culture of the closet,...

Dreams of dead lovers. (Books).(Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After)
July 1, 2002... Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After by Kevin Bentley Green Candy Press 270 pages, $12.95 (paper) The Redwood Diary: A Journal by Paul Reed Xlibris. 135 pages, $8. THERE are two kinds of diary: one...

What Bishop was doing in Brazil all those years. (Books).(Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares)
July 1, 2002... Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira Translated by Neil K. Besner Rutgers University Press 192 pages, $26. KNOWN as a "poet's poet' Elizabeth Bishop...

A Love by any other name. (Books).(Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality)
July 1, 2002... Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz University of Chicago Press 416 pages, $35. AS admirable a book as Jonathan Ned Katz's Love Stories is, I found it curiously grating in one respect, namely its...

Thalassic Father.(Poem)
July 1, 2002... Thalassic father ELENA GEORGIOU In water, he is everything he's not when he's on dry land-- adept, adroit--above all, a success. He is stunning when he is swimming. Diving into oceans, he find grit in aquatic life-- ...

Another Shock of the new. (Books).(Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925)
July 1, 2002... Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925 Edited & translated by Laurence Senelick Routledge. 199 pages, $25.95 WHEN I say that reading this collection of plays is like taking a graduate seminar in literature, I intend...

The nun's tale and the prisoner's tale. (Books).(Bread for the Baker's Child)
July 1, 2002... Bread for the Baker's Child by Joseph Caldwell Sarabande Books 351 pages, $13.95 (paper) WHAT does the writer of a masterpiece do for an encore? Joseph's Caldwell's The Uncle from Rome, published in 1992, was a profound tale...

Man of (many) letters. (Books).(Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James's Letters to Younger Men)
July 1, 2002... Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James's Letters to Younger Men Edited by Susan E. Gunter and Steven H. Jobe University of Michigan Press 352 pages, $29.95 HENRY James is one of those American authors, like T. S. Eliot, who seems more...

Boundaries I've straddled. (Books).(Black Gay Man: Essays)
July 1, 2002... Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr NYU Press. 195 pages, $16.95 THIS collection of essays is not so much an attempt to think about being a black gay man as it is an attempt to think about society and political change from the...

Jay Hatheway reveals in Guilty As Charged: The True Story of a Gay Beret. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... I don't know what today's Army is like. But judging from some of the reports we're getting from the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, I suspect it's not much different from when I had to endure it. The military culture Jay Hatheway reveals...

In Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (Crown), David Brock recounts his life as a closeted gay man in the right-wing trenches. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (Crown), David Brock recounts his life as a closeted gay man in the right-wing trenches, writing inflammatory essays for conservative publications such as the American Spectator in...

Carol Guess's Gaslight. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Every writing class veteran has been told to show rather than tell the story. Carol Guess's Gaslight (Odd Girls Press) shines brightly when she shows, and falters when she tells. Writing about race is a tricky business for white people,...

In Kissing Jessica Stein, a new film directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... We've come a long way from the days when marriages were arranged by parents and couples were expected to stay together for life. Nowadays relationships are more likely to be formed by individual entrepreneurs who have complicated agendas and...

An Iranian in Uruguay.(The City of Your Final Destination)
July 1, 2002... The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 312 pages, $24. LIKE Peter Cameron's previous novel, Andorra (1997), which was set in a fictionalized principality on the Mediterranean Sea, his new...

Ode to L.A.(Ode to Lata)
July 1, 2002... Ode to Lata By Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Really Good Books. 293 pages. $22.95 ALI searches for love in all the wrong places and ends up in bed with men of all races in this wrenching, rewarding debut novel. Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla's...

A biblical mismatch.(Bethlehem Road)
July 1, 2002... Bethlehem Road by Nancy Crowe Odd Girls Press. 234 pages, $12.95 (paper) ONE of my all-time favorite scenes in the movies is the one in Moonstruck, after the opera, in which Nicholas Cage is trying to get Cher to come into his...

China: anonymity still rules--at least for now. (International Spectrum).
July 1, 2002... I was thrilled when the dean of our law school selected me to teach a law class in what sounded like one of the most fascinating cities in the world--Shanghai. After all the required background and security checks were completed by the Chinese...

Conferences/events.
July 1, 2002... GLBT International Law Conference, to be held June 5-8, 2002, in Turin, Italy. For details, visit: www.glbtlawturin2002.org. GBLT Health Summit to be held August 21-25, 2002 in Boulder, CO. For more info, contact Erik Libey, AIDS-Rochester,...

Word play. (Theatre).(The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?)
July 1, 2002... The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee Golden Theater, New York IN The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee returns to a favorite theme: the midlife crises of heterosexual couples. It's present in A Delicate Balance, The...