The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from July 2009

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from July 2009

Reading Cixous in translation.(Poem)
July 1, 2009... Promethea sits in my lap a book that is a woman covered head to foot in a sheer veil her beauty, her scent intoxicating but her skin the touch of her just beyond my reach. As much as I stretch my fingers towards her even when I...

The gay man who saved Ford's life.(Oliver Sipple)(Gerald Ford)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore tried to kill Gerald Ford. It was not Ford's life that changed that day; he would go on, only a few minutes off schedule, back to Washington. It was the man standing next to Moore, Oliver Sipple, an...

The Making of George Segal's Gay Liberation.(ART MEMO)
July 1, 2009... SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, on June 23, 1992, sculptor George Segal (1924-2000) witnessed the installation of his first outdoor public sculpture in Manhattan, the city center that had inspired much of his work and had made him internationally famous....

Gay Liberation in New York: year one.(PHOTO ESSAY)(Gay Liberation Front )
July 1, 2009... THE 1960'S IN AMERICA, when I was an adolescent, was a dark time for gay men. A man's life could be ruined if it were known that he harbored homoerotic desires, even if just in the head. In the political hysteria fostered by Senator Joseph...

The Ancient Chinese poets often parted on Mules.(Poem)
July 1, 2009... When you are far away like this, I replace my time with yours, the one you are occupying. You arise when I do not, take meals before I have an appetite, love, perhaps, someone who is not me. You have led an accelerated life, yet...

The 'L' word in Henry James' fiction.(The American)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... DENIED A VOICE of their own by social and legal prohibition through most of Western history, women have often had to allow men to speak for them. The scarcity of women writers, much less lesbian writers, means that the lives of women have...

Lives of the Saints.(Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch Little, Brown. 448 pages, $30. SHE HATED the work of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Carson McCullers (Clock Without Hands was "the worst book I've ever read"). The sort...

Larry Mitchell, novelist of the dispossessed.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)
July 1, 2009... NOW seventy years old. Larry Mitchell has invited me into the labyrinthine apartment he and his lover Richard have shared for 25 years in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In the faded gold living room, we sit down to talk over tea and the sounds of...

Fashioning Men.(Book review)
July 1, 2009... J.C. Leyendecker by Laurence and Judy Cutler Abrams 256 pages (illustrated), $50 AN EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL volume to grace the coffee table of any art lover, J. C. Leyen-decker is the second major study of perhaps the most...

The Making of Milk.(Milk: The Shooting Script)(Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Milk: The Shooting Script By Dustin Lance Black Newmarket Press, 130 pages, $ 19.95 Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk Introduction by Dustin Lance Black Newmarket Press, 144 pages, $ 19.95 THE PUBLICATION of...

Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor by Bonnie J. Morris Indiana University Press, 167 pages, $19.95 Building on a monologue that the author has been performing as a one-woman show for over a decade, Revenge of The Women's...

America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life.(Book review)
July 1, 2009... America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life by Benoit Denizet-Lewis Simon & Schuster. 342 pages, $26. Benoit Denizet-Lewis knows about addiction. The New York Times Magazine contributor is a self-described sex addict who...

Impressions of Lives Unseen.(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories by Michelle Cliff University of Minnesota Press 248 pages, $24.95 THIS VOLUME is actually a compilation of two previously published collections of short stories and a set of new ones by...

The Mythical Realm of Richmond Barthe.(Barthe: A Life in Sculpture)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Barthe: A Life in Sculpture by Margaret Rose Vendryes University Press of Mississippi 229 pages (illustrated), $40. RICHMOND BARTHE was a gay African-American sculptor and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930's. He...

Women of Influence.(My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them Edited by Michael Montlack Wisconsin. 320 pages, $24.95 THE ACTRESSES Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis, comedian Gracie Allen, Julia Childs, Queen...

Sisters in Struggle.(Vanessa and Virginia)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Vanessa & Virginia by Susan Sellers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 213 pages, $23. VANESSA & VIRGINIA is a short, imaginative novel of two sisters, Vanessa and Virginia Stephen, better known as the artist Vanessa Bell and the writer...

Jamaica Agonistes.(Book review)
July 1, 2009... The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin Scribner. 288 pages, $24. PERFORMER AND AUTHOR Staceyann Chin made her debut two months early, as she explains in this new memoir. Her mother, Hazel, who claimed that she didn't know...

The Critical Davis.(Bette Davis: The Performances That Made Her Great)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Bette Davis: The Performances That Made Her Great by Peter McNally McFarland & Co. 253 pages, $35. IN LIGHT OF the myriad books about Bette Davis that are out there, one might question the need for another look at the grande dame...

The times of Rob Epstein, filmmaker.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)
July 1, 2009... YOU MAY not know Rob Epstein by name but you certainly know his films. A pioneer in the world of GLBT filmmaking, Epstein has been acknowledging and addressing the lives of gay people in his films for the past three decades. In the late 1970's...

Up the Down Rock Star.(Years of Refusal)(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2009... Years of Refusal by Morrissey Attack/ Lost Highway Records BACK IN 2004, before it was fashionable to decry the disastrous foreign policies of the Bush administration, Brit rocker Morrissey called America a "big fat pig." Mind...

Those Dancing Sharks Are Back.(West Side Story)(Theater review)
July 1, 2009... West Side Story Directed by Arthur Laurents Palace Theatre, New York IN THE 1950's, four gay men of genius got together and created what is arguably the greatest Broadway show ever. The brainchild of choreographer Jerome Robbins,...