The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from March 2002

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from March 2002

March-April, 2002: "On the Fringe".(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... At around the time that this journal was taking shape--in 1993 and '94--there raged among gay and lesbian intellectuals a debate over the whether GLBT people should stop seeing themselves as sexual outsiders--and acting the part--and start...

Correspondence.
March 1, 2002... Another Take on Castro's Revolution To the Editor: In his article entitled "How Criminal Was Castro?" (Nov.-Dec. issue), Larry Oberg joins the multitude of apologists for the Castro regime. I'm not quite certain why this phenomenon of...

Gay students 1, Salt Lake City 0. (BTW).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Five years and a quarter of million dollars later, the school board of Salt Lake City has ended its efforts to prevent students from organizing Gay/Straight Alliances in district schools. While such clubs have become a fixture in urban high...

Dutch marriage: an update. (BTW).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Six months after the Netherlands became the first country to offer full marriage for same-sex couples, nearly 2,000 such couples had come forward to get hitched. The Central Bureau of Statistics has reported that between April 1 and September...

Putting the camp in campaign. (BTW).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Toronto's best-known drag queen announced last December that she planned to join the race to head Canada's conservative opposition party, the Canadian Alliance. "I am a supermodel for a super party," declared Enza Anderson, who launched her...

The Church's still dirty, not-so-little secret. (BTW).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... If the trend has been toward greater openness when dealing with pedophilia in the Catholic Church, the Pope bucked that trend late last year when he issued new rules calling for accused priests to stand trial in secret ecclesiastical courts....

Sex in the City. (BTW).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A recent report by the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department promises to put the AIDS nonprofit world under much closer scrutiny, especially in San Francisco. The report was the result of an investigation of San Francisco's Stop AIDS...

The homeless community of the piers. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... THEIR lives have been depicted in books such as John Rechy's City of Night (1963) and Iceberg Slim's Black Widow Mama (1996) and in movies like Johns (1996) and Paris Is Burning (1990), but how accurate is this depiction of the homeless queer...

The world of gay strippers. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... GO-GO dancers have been fixtures in gay bars and clubs for many years, but male stripping only began to develop in the 1970's. It was then that the Sexual Revolution was washing over society, and the male body was being used to sell products in...

Confessions of an S/M Leatherdyke. (Interview).
March 1, 2002... Carol LeMasters is a free lance writer and political activist living in Columbus, Ohio. A long-time gay rights advocate, she came out as S/M in 1985 and has co-founded two women's S/M organizations: Briar Rose in Columbus and Sweet Misery in...

Replacing a Part.(Poem)
March 1, 2002... Why be startled if the grease-monkeys working on my hatchback are Asian, considering this mishap befell on the fringes of Chinatown? Not me, but others were treated to a scream of sparks as the exhaust-pipe dragged along...

Folding my wings. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... I'VE had some wonderful experiences with the Radical Faeries, the gender-bending pioneers of spirituality and drag: meeting Harry Hay at a Unitarian church in Boston; skinny-dipping in rural ponds; visiting a magical house in the New Hampshire...

Communities of equals. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... The following passage is excerpted from the forthcoming book, The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Private Hearts and Public Habits of Gay Men (St. Martin's Press). In this passage the author describes several instances of "intentional communities"...

Binational couples: Alliance of fear. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... ACCORDING to Love Sees No Borders, there are an estimated half million members of same-sex binational couples in the U.S. These couples cross social, economic, and ethnic lines, and are composed of Americans of all races and political...

Toward a semiotics of butch. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... THAT the lesbian world is composed of a variety of styles, identities, traditions, and life experiences has never been in question. We come from many generations, locations, and traditions. We express ourselves in terms of body styling, dress,...

'Rice queens' and the men who love them. (Essay).
March 1, 2002... IN contemporary gay vernacular, a "rice queen" is a gay man, usually Caucasian, who prefers to date Asian men rather than men of any other race. Among those who freely use the expression--which is far from politically correct and is offensive...

My Mother the agitprop. (Books).
March 1, 2002... Mother Millett by Kate Millett Verso. 308 pages, $25. THERE must be dozens of feminist meditations on the traditional elderly woman's burden of caring for frail elderly relatives. Mother Millett is an unusual entry in this...

Bless.(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... Gold Bless Denira hand over heart heart over and over overheard through wires of sorrow CIA Lifts Ban on Assassination flowers fill a fountain We are 1914 a pedestrian bridge a spangled girl in a...

Vigilance and oblivion. (Books).
March 1, 2002... Bat Ode by Jeredith Merrin Phoenix Poets Series, University of Chicago Press, 2001.68 pages, $15. IN "From a Summer Porch," one of the best poems in Jeredith Merrin's fine new collection, Bat Ode, she comments on approaching...

Leaving the life; writing this memoir. (Books).
March 1, 2002... Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling Rick Whitaker Four Walls Eight Windows 160 pages, $18. ($12.95 paper) IN Assuming the Position, Whitaker describes his dismal and debilitating year as a gay male prostitute. That was in...

The Big A. (Books).
March 1, 2002... Andy Warhol by Wayne Koestenbaum Penguin "Brief Lives Series" (Viking) 224 pages, $21.95 FIFTEEN years after his death, Andy Warhol remains a presence in our daily lives. The 2001 calendar that I just replaced featured twelve...

Jamie O'Neill's at swim, two boys. (Briefs).
March 1, 2002... The title of Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys (Scribner) is a play on Flann O'Brien's title At Swim-Two-Birds, but the influence on this recent book is less O'Brien than it is James Joyce. From the opening pages, in which the middle-aged...

"Inside-Out". (Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Among the surprises in a major new survey conducted by the Kaiser Foundation is that lesbians are more likely to feel rejected by a family member than are gay men (with fully half of those surveyed, versus a third of the men, so reporting)....

L.I.E. (Briefs).
March 1, 2002... When it was released last year, L.I.E., directed by Michael Cuesta, received a lot of hype for a small film, trumpeted in the mainstream media as a serious movie about pederasty. Paul Franklin Dano plays the disaffected sixteen-year-old Howie...

Can this age be queered? (Books).
March 1, 2002... Queering the Middle Ages Edited by Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger University of Minnesota Press. 256 pages, $49. To queer an epoch, as Judith Butler has noted, is to contest its terms of sexual legitimacy. Homosexuality is only...

Summer of '62. (Books).
March 1, 2002... The Lantern Bearers by Ronald Frame Counterpoint. 224 pages, $24. Neil Pritchard's parents are having a spot of difficulty in their marriage. The fourteen-year-old is sent away from his Glasgow home to the little town of...

Son of Sarah.
March 1, 2002... The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things J. T. Leroy Bloomsbury Publishing. 224 pages, $23.95 Cruelty, when it occurs in families, has its own logic, and it's one that the most vulnerable need to understand for survival. Victims of...

Of Things Past.
March 1, 2002... The Big Book of Misunderstanding by Jim Gladstone Harrington Park Press. 300 pages, $27.95 (paper $17.95) Our earliest memories come in fragments, flashes of images mixed with a splash of emotion. One of my oldest memories is...

The undescending man.(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... The man in my mouth who sings falsetto has nothing to do with the woman who flashes a blur of peter & kootch behind a tolled curtain. I took a swim with a boy diver & surfaced hermaphrodite. I don't know how to love myself out of such...

Gay life in Southern Italy. (International Spectrum).
March 1, 2002... SELINUNTE, a scenic coastal town in western Sicily, is as steeped in history as any locale on the ancient island. Over the centuries waves of foreigners, from Greeks to Arabs to Carthaginians to Romans, invaded and settled the area. Today,...

Boys being boys. (Arts).
March 1, 2002... Gymnasium Photographs by Luke Smalley Wessel + O'Connor Gallery, NYC October 12-November 25, 2001 Gymnasium by Luke Smalley Twin Palms Publishers, 96 pages, $60. WE'VE been awash in waves of photographic...

Best romantic screen kisses of all time.
March 1, 2002... "Come on Charlie, who took the kickback? Please tell me it's Kramer. If it is I'll give you a big kiss on the lips. Tongue, no tongue, your choice." James Garner to Jack Lemmon in My Fellow Americans (1996) LEONARDO DiCaprio, Will...