The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from March 2003

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from March 2003

March-April 2003: Witch hunts in America.
March 1, 2003... Is humanity doomed to suffer periodic outbursts of fratricidal madness in which those in power suddenly decide to persecute a vulnerable minority? Witch hunts, inquisitions, pogroms against Jews and gypsies, racist lynchings, the Holocaust...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... Hidden Agenda Seen in HIV Piece To the Editor: The principal purpose of Ian Young's article, "HIV Marketing Folklore" [Jan.-Feb. 2003] seems to be not the presentation of the over-commercialization of AIDS, something not unexpected in...

Queer reading from Duke.(lesbian literature)(Duke University Press)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... Making Girls into Women American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity KATHRYN R. KENT Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian," proposing that modern lesbian identity in...

This time, it's official. (BTW).(gay cartoon )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... At the risk of devoting entirely too much space to the sexual orientation of cartoon characters--we speculated last time about SpongeBob Squarepants--we cannot ignore the recent announcement that a classic comic figure will soon be reintroduced...

Ancient rumor confirmed! (BTW).(gay temple discovered in Rome)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... There have always been rumors about a number of ancient Roman rulers, starting with Julius Caesar and including Hadrian and the great Marcus Aurelius. Now something like proof has emerged at an archaeological site near Rome, where a temple has...

File under "evil, banality of". (BTW).(safe sex reports missing from Centers for Disease Control website)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Recent events have exposed a regime that systematically blocks information about condom use despite a high HIV infection rate, prevents women from learning about birth control and even about breast cancer statistics, and suppresses scientific...

Smoke this. (BTW).(tobacco industry's classification of gay and homeless persons)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... What do GLBT people and the homeless have in common? Both were targeted for the marketing of tobacco products by a major tobacco company under a project called "Subculture Urban Marketing" or--you guessed it--"Project SCUM." Presumably this...

A trip to the fair. (BTW).(gay students in high demand)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The recent revelation that Harvard University embarked on a gay witch hunt in the early 1920's--discussed at length in this issue--underscores just how remarkable it was when a special college recruiting fair for gay and lesbian students was...

A Gay Purge at Harvard, 1920. (Essay).(gay students and teachers dismissed from Harvard University)
March 1, 2003... IN MAY AND JUNE 1920, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Acting Dean of the College Chester N. Greenough, skirting the usual channels for investigating allegations of student wrong-doing, convened a secret five-member board--referred to...

The Newport Sex Scandal, 1919-21. (Essay).(prosecution of gays in the military)
March 1, 2003... THE STORY of persecution is as old as civilization itself. In colonial times, Quakers, Catholics, and witches were attacked and executed for beliefs contrary to Protestantism. Native Americans were pushed westward as America rapidly expanded...

Gertrude Stein took the War like a man. (Essay).(lesbian author Gertrude Stein's struggle with gender identity during World War II)
March 1, 2003... HOW DID Gertrude Stein, a Jew who was also a homosexual in Paris during the Nazi occupation of 1940-1945, manage to survive--both physically and psychologically--during the Second World War? On the first question, that of physical survival,...

The Smith College Porn Panic of 1960. (Essay).(college teachers convicted for viewing pornographic photos)
March 1, 2003... WHILE I HAVE always been a very private person, in early September of 1960, I was caught in the center of a moral hurricane. While vacationing on the Cape, I read in The New York Times that my colleagues, Newton Arvin and Ned Spofford, had been...

The Boston/Boise Affair, 1977-78. (Essay).(homosexuality, statutory rape, and discrimination against gays)
March 1, 2003... ON DECEMBER 8, 1977 the district attorney Garrett Byrne from Suffolk County in Massachusetts, which includes all of Boston and three smaller surrounding communities, called a press conference to announce the indictment of 24 men on multiple...

Kandahar: Closely Watched Pashtuns. (Essay).(media coverage of homosexuality in Afghanistan)
March 1, 2003... SOON AFTER American troops entered Afghanistan following the events of 9/11/2001, reports began to appear in major press outlets documenting a phenomenon that had previously received scant attention: widespread homosexual activity among Afghan...

Colleges Cave to Pentagon Threat. (Essay).(military discharge, anti-gay discrimination laws and federal aid to higher education)
March 1, 2003... UNDER THE U.S. military's current "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, the Pentagon discharges well over a thousand people every year for being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. This policy is just the latest incarnation of an ongoing witch hunt that has...

Michael Cunningham after Hours. (Artist's Profile).(interview about 'The Hours')(Interview)
March 1, 2003... TONY PEREGRIN You can almost hear Michael Cunningham shifting in his seat on the other end of the phone as he struggles to explain why his novels constantly orbit around the themes of insecurity and isolation-most notably in The Hours, his...

The shock of the old: Christopher Bram chats with the author of Pulp Friction.(Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps)(Michael Bronski)(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Michael Bronski is one of the great unnatural resources of gay and lesbian letters. He's insanely well-read in a wide range of areas: fiction, politics, history, and theory. And he loves not only the printed word but film, music, and theater as...

Lord Byron Just Keeps Getting Gayer. (Books).(Byron: Life and Legend)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Byron: Life and Legend Fiona MacCarthy John Murray in the UK Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the U.S. 674 pages, $35. FIONA MacCarthy has written the most important Byron biography in half a century, published by John Murray,...

Poet in the Freudian Slip. (Books).(Talking Cures: New Poems)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Talking Cures: New Poems by Richard Howard Turtle Point Press. 115 pages, $16.95 NOW in his seventies, a time when most poets fall back on new and selected volumes due to dwindling productivity, Richard Howard has published...

Such a life, who would have predicted it? (Books).(Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir By Lillian Faderman Houghton Mifflin. 368 pages, $26. LILLIAN Faderman all but invented lesbian history as a field worthy of serious scholarly endeavor, and she's been an innovator in gay and...

A Musical Prodigy Who Landed in Jail. (Books).(Henry Cowell, Bohemian)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Henry Cowell, Bohemian by Michael Hicks University of Illinois Press 240 pages, $29.95 HENRY COWELL, an American composer born in 1897, was a maverick in both his personal life .and his musical compositions. In this first...

Blood of an Englishman. (Books).(Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: The Authorized Biography)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: The Authorized Biography By Doug E. Winter HarperCollins. 671 pages, $34.95 IN 1984, soon after Clive Barker's popular "Books of Blood" series had hit the 'U.S., Stephen King darkly foresaw the...

Does persecution make for better art? (Books).(Homosexuality, A Hidden Love: Art and)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality by Dominique Fernandez Translated by David Radzinowicz Prestel. 320 pages, $75. THE GROWING awareness in recent decades of the immense contribution made by gay men and lesbians to art and...

Canada's March to Equality. (Books).(Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada by Tom Warner University of Toronto Press 430 pages, $95. ($29.95 paper) THE FIRST gay organizations in Canada were founded in the early 1960's, well over a decade after the...

Flocking Together. (Books).(Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex Edited by Stephen Clift, Michael Luongo, and Carry Callister Continuum Books. 280 pages, $29.95 (paper) THE 1969 movie comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium depicted and promoted the...

Philosopher of the In-between. (Books).(Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory Edited by Stephen M. Barber and David L. Clark Routledge. 288 pages, $22.95 STEPHEN M. Barber and David L. Clark's Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical...

My Mother, My Other. (Books).(Lucky in the Corner)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw Houghton Mifflin. 256 pages, $23. IN Carol Anshaw's new novel, Lucky in the Corner, Nora has become ensconced in a life of cozy, predictable domesticity with her lover Jeanne, which stirs up a...

Beyond Identity Politics. (Books).(The World Turned Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The World Turned Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture John D'Emilio Duke University Press. 328 pages, $54.95 ($18.95 paper) JOHN D'Emilio has made a virtue out of necessity. During the 1980's, he found the doors of the...

A Dark Time Brought to Light. (Exhibitions).(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)(Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals)
March 1, 2003... Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 The US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington. Until March 16,2003 EVEN ON bright sunny days, the U.S. Holocaust Museum is not a cheery space. The curved limestone entrance is a brooding...

Learning One's Lynes. (Books).(George Platt Lynes)
March 1, 2003... Portrait Photographs of George Platt Lynes Harvard Theatre Collection. Jan. 8-Feb. 28, 2003 A representative selection of the portrait photographs of George Platt Lynes is currently on display at the Harvard Theatre Collection. Lynes...

Conferences/events.(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... International Conference on Gay & Lesbian Tourism will be held March 10-12, 2003 at the Eden Roc Renaissance Resort & Spa Miami Beach in Florida. To register, call 415-437-3800 or e-mail info@mark8ing.com. For more info, visit www.mark8ing.com...

Sunset Language.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... Sunset Language Don't come to me with your hair cut short shorn at your feet a tangle of nettles The moon's undone and I'm undone with her craw in the sky my words clawing my throat Don't come to me unless you'll stay...

Rowing in Eden for Sheryl.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... Rowing in Eden for Sheryl Paradise is no quiet place: Waves lap-lap the shore, Cattails rub against each other And hiss, birds' wings blur Their sudden bursts and the oars break Surface rhythmically-- Dip, pull,...

Night School.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... Night School He was the only child of a long-dead mother. Father out all night, sisters long gone. He had a delicate way of speaking, oddly cut hair and so, to us, he was a natural target. His books went missing...

Once Was Enough.(Poem)
March 1, 2003... Once Was Enough underlit, the red leaves remind me of perching on the window ledge with your cat, waiting for the wind to shake the plum tree leaves in the late afternoon light that you always complained about missing, but...