The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from March 2007

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from March 2007

March-April 2007: "stage hands".
March 1, 2007... In this issue on GLBT theatre, Carolyn Gage raises a problem she faced when first setting out to write plays: the lack of a tradition of lesbian-feminist theatre from which to draw inspiration. It was a double dilemma because of the dearth of...

How 'santorum' helped defeat Rick Santorum.(GUEST OPINION)
March 1, 2007... The following is excerpted from a piece that became something of an instant Internet classic following its publication after the off-year election on November 7, which saw the defeat of two-term Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. The...

Congressman clarifies events of the 80's.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... Dear Editor, Don Gorton's critique and analysis of the effort to advance GLBT rights within the Republican Party [Jan.-Feb. 07 issue] is superb. Mr. Gorton's own courageous effort to work with Massachusetts Republicans to advance GLBT...

Revisiting an era in English history.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... Dear Editor, Patricia Nell Warren is a wonderful novelist but her attempt at history leaves much to be desired. Her "Of Freemasons, Kings, and Constitutions" [Nov.-Dec. 2006] is so full of historical inaccuracies, especially with regard to...

Another word for "gerontophil".(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... To the Editor: How nice to read nice things about gerontophobia. Many years ago I was a decrepit old man, a troll. Life after thirty was a dull gray area for gay men. But in the 1990's I learned that I was good-looking and sexy. Again. Now...

Advice to a writer.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... To the Editor: Tom Pickurel's essay "Fifty" in the January-February issue is a lingering delight. Library shelves are glutted with writing that is nowhere near as clever, creative, or insightful as this. The difference is that they have a...

An even gayer Tea and Sympathy?(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2007... To The Editor, I wonder if Christopher Capozzola, author of the Essay, "Fifty Years of Tea and Sympathy" (January-February, 2007), is aware that in author Robert Sherwood's original version of Tea and Sympathy the ambivalent young man was...

Correction.(Correction notice)
March 1, 2007... The last issue's table-of-contents page correctly identified it as the January-February 2007 issue but incorrectly designated the issue number as 13.7. We're still bimonthly (six issues per year); the correct number was 14.1.

Haggard scandal redux.(BTW)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The twin scandals of ex-Congressman Mark Foley and (ex-?) Reverend Ted Haggard escaped notice in the last BTW (too obvious?); but here are two footnotes on the more entertaining of the two, Haggard, who didn't merely fall from grace but plunged...

Yet another way to be gay in church.(BTW)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... You may know--or won't be surprised to learn--that Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner produced a son who's gay. What you may not have known is that Jay Bakker has followed in his parents' footsteps and gone into preaching, and he's lost...

It takes a drag queen.(BTW)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Ali Saleem is a man who regularly appears, dressed as a woman, on a nationally televised talk show in Pakistan, where the subject often turns to sex--or so we learned from a front-page article in The New York Times (1/3/07). It's hard to decide...

Tell and serve anyway.(BTW)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Previously it was reported here that a number of students in Minneapolis had carried out a bit of agitprop against the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy by going to a recruitment office and signing up for the Army, only to reveal that...

It's even in the food.(BTW)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Devil's hoofprints are everywhere in this world if you're an evangelical preacher on the lookout for evil influences of all kinds. And if you're a self-described "health-food guy," your bailiwick is the stuff we eat. Thus has Megashift...

The year in travesties.(BTW)
March 1, 2007... The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a watchdog nonprofit that blows the whistle on anti-GLBT slurs in the media, published its list of the worst offenders in 2006. The list offers a rogues' gallery of bigotry and imbecility,...

'Kinsey and I thought very much alike.' John Esther talks with the author of Point to Point Navigation.(Gore Vidal)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... WHEN REVIEWING a recent book for The New York Review of Books, writer Larry McMurtry opened by indulging in the old thought experiment of deciding what one author's works he would take with him to the proverbial desert island. His choice was...

Big daddy.(ESSAY)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Tennessee Williams: Memoirs New Directions Books 368 pages, $15.95 (paper) TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DIED just when AIDS was starting to explode (1983)--eight years after his Memoirs were published (1975), to more than one hostile review...

In search of a lesbian stage tradition.(ESSAY)(Essay)
March 1, 2007... The following paper was first delivered at the New England Women's Studies Conference in March 2005. THERE ARE many challenges in writing lesbian-feminist plays, and today I want to talk about two of them. The first is working without...

Driving the Train.(Poem)
March 1, 2007... Nail polish off, PATH jacket on, he's ready to leave behind the clothes that fit his secret self, the people who know him weekends. He's heading home to his wife and kids, and life underground where he sits, hunched over, and smokes. The...

EU countries divided on same-sex marriage.
March 1, 2007... PUBLIC OPINION on same-sex mar-rage and adoption show enormous variation from one European country to the next, according to a large-scale survey that covered all 25 current members of the European Union (EU), two countries in the process of...

McNally after the 'gay Jesus' play.(Terrence McNally)
March 1, 2007... WHAT BRINGS AUDIENCES to the theater is "the expectation that the miracle of communication will take place," explains a protester to the board of a city arts complex in "Hidden Agendas," a one-act play that Terrence McNally wrote in 1994 in...

Sterling Houston, walkin' his blues.(Biography)
March 1, 2007... STERLING HOUSTON, an experimental playwright who died last year, embodied the archetype of the American artist who moves with those dreams out into the world and comes back home with his dreams intact to carry out his major work. His life also...

A French response to the Wilde affair.(ESSAY)(Essay)
March 1, 2007... WHILE THE TWO YEARS he served in prison for having engaged in homosexual acts were very hard on Oscar Wilde, the greatest sorrow he experienced as a result of England's stepped-up persecution of gay men in the 1890's was the loss of his two...

Physical Education.(Poem)
March 1, 2007... What's left of me goes where you pay five dollars it's great because Pedro says I've got the "perfect cock" the next two I don't get their names they are: throats-thighs-lids-lashes-soles-young hair Arturo has tight arms fine tattoos...

Am I permitted to talk about me?(Essay)
March 1, 2007... THE IMAGE you see below was the first page of my biography at my website, TomBianchi.com. for the last seven years. This short version of my life from birth to graduation from law school told what I saw as most relevant about who I am....

The life and legacy of the DOB: Sarah Schulman meets with the author of Different Daughters.(Daughters of Bilitis)(Marcia Gallo)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS as an activist for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco, Marcia Gallo started graduate school at the City University of New York, working with Martin Duberman and other luminaries at the center for lesbian...

Publishing Proust.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Proust's Deadline by Christine M. Cano University of Illinois Press 160 pages, $35. CHRISTINE M. CANO begins her fascinating book on just how Proust's novel was published with a remark by Anatole France that seems doubly...

Anglo-American, gay-inflected movies.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... British Queer Cinema Edited by Robin Griffiths Routledge. 248 pages, $31.95 BRITISH QUEER CINEMA? What's that? This substantial collection of academic essays appears under a title that is less self-evident than it may appear, in...

Savannah.(Poem)
March 1, 2007... On Chippewa Square, at last we have found the rainbow flag, planted like Admiral Byrd's atop the side doorway. A welcoming place to drink, far from the magazine boys who stroll like whiffs of vapor, turning air to lust on...

The keeper of Eakins' flame.(Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins William S. McFeely W.W. Norton. 237 pages, $26.95 A PAINTER and photographer who's acclaimed by some critics as the best portrait artist in American history, Thomas Eakins is today a very hot...

A 50's affair supposed.(The Age of Cities)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Age of Cities by Brett Josef Grubisic Arsenal Pulp Press. 240 pages, $14.95 JUST AT A MOMENT when the study of gay history and literature is flourishing, social critics have declared the death of the GLBT subculture due to the...

Heroes in the culture wars.(Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture by Arlene Stein New York University Press. 224 pages, $21. (paper) SEXUALITY HAS BECOME perhaps the single most volatile issue in the highly emotional and long-running set of...

Whose room is it, anyway?(Rooms of Our Own)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Rooms of Our Own by Susan Gubar University of Illinois Press. 223 pages, $19.95 (paper) SUSAN GUBAR is a professor of English at Indiana University, the recipient of several awards for writing and scholarship, and the co-author...

Person, poetry, politics.(The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980-2005)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980-2005 by Cheryl Clarke Carroll & Graff. 419 pages, $16.95 (paper) FEW QUEER WRITERS plant their flag as firmly at the intersection of poetry and politics as does...

Cheer up.(Gay and Single ... Forever? Ten Things Every Gay Guy Looking for Love (and Not Finding It) Needs to Know)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Gay and Single... Forever? Ten Things Every Gay Guy Looking for Love (and Not Finding It) Needs to Know by Steven Bereznai Marlowe & Co. 247 pages, $15.95 DESPITE ITS TITLE, which might suggest another dreary self-help book...

Sex as disaster: an expose.(America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty by Marty Klein, Ph.D. Praeger Publishers. 232 pages, $29.95 ADDING to his already impressive roster of works on human sexuality, renowned author, sex educator, and therapist...

Beach blanket buddies.(Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television Jeffery P. Dennis Harrington Park Press. 221 pages, $34.95 (paper, $16.95) IF THIS BOOK is any evidence, Jeffery Dennis one of those people who...

Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater Edited by Robin Bernstein Univ. of Michigan Press. 248 pages, 22.95 This collection of personal essays, interviews, and polemics, ably introduced and edited by Robin Bernstein, explores "queer...

Fighting Tommy Reilly.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Fighting Tommy Reilly Written by J. P. Davis Directed by Eddie O'Flaherty Featuring a compelling story and powerful performances by its co-stars, Fighting Tommy Reilly opened to critical acclaim in 2005. However, the film fell...

The New Gay Teenager.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The New Gay Teenager. Ritch C. Savin-Williams Harvard Univ. Press. 272 pages, 16.95 (paper) Reports on the obstacles faced by non-heterosexual teenagers abound. Bullying, rampant drug abuse, depression, and even suicide top the...

The history teacher.(The History Boys)(Movie review)
March 1, 2007... The History Boys Written by Alan Bennett, from his play Directed by Nicholas Hytner WHEN AMERICAN FILMmakers include gay characters in their films, they tend to focus on them as problematic--the problems of coming out; the heady,...

Kenneth Anger, director: Fireworks at sixty.(Interview)
March 1, 2007... While not a household name, experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger has had a massive influence on American cinema. Indeed, names no less illustrious than Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have repeatedly cited Anger as a major influence on...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)
March 1, 2007... Joint Conference on Aging to take place March 7-10 in Chicago, will include an array of sessions on LGBT concerns. For more info, visit: www.agingconference.org. Or call: 800-537-9728, x9675. FORGE Forward 2007 Conf. for transgendered...

The Devil stopped me from doing it.(The Little Dog Laughed)(Theater review)
March 1, 2007... The Little Dog Laughed A play by Douglas Carter Beane Cort Theatre, New York EVER SINCE the early days of Hollywood, actors and writers who abandoned "the Theatre" for the movies were thought to have sold their artistic souls to...