The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from May 2005

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from May 2005

May-June 2005: the new Europe (and the old).
May 1, 2005... The concept of a "new Europe" is itself a very old one that was given new life by the Bush administration when it relegated countries like France and Germany that opposed the Iraq war to the "old" Europe, while elevating those of eastern and...

'Fine By Me' campaign hits red state campuses.(GUEST OPINION)
May 1, 2005... The "Fine By Me" project is a nonprofit organization that works with students across the U.S. to develop campaigns against homophobia on their campuses and in the surrounding communities. The concept was developed in 2003 by a group of ten Duke...

Sexuality-baiting taken up at a UN caucus.(GUEST OPINION)(Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission)
May 1, 2005... By 6:30 p.m. on March 9, a small room in the Church Center for the United Nations was packed beyond capacity with people standing in the doorway, pouring down the hall, and sitting on the floor. The air was buzzing with excitement as if...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... To the Editor: After reading all the election lamentations in the January-February issue, I am still baffled by two unanswered questions. The first question is why we don't attack the churches in the forefront of the political battle...

When all else fails ...(BTW)(Social Security privatization)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so it was that proponents of Social Security privatization resorted to attacking skeptics of the scheme by linking them to--are you ready?--same-sex marriage. You could play Find-the-Fit from...

Language patrol.(BTW)(conference sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... It was a routine conference sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services. The subject was suicide prevention, and one panel was to focus on GLBT youths, who...

Ex-gay and ex-ACA.(BTW)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... An article in this issue documents the antics of one Richard Cohen when in Poland last year, all part of his campaign to bring tidings of the "ex-gay" movement to people around the world. Cohen, a psychotherapist, was even invited to speak to...

Ain't I a (married) woman?(BTW)(Judi and Michael Howden )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Judi and Michael Howden were wed four years ago and are still happily married--even though Michael changed his name to Mikayla in 2003 and underwent a full sex change last September. This legally recognized change of sex would seem to render...

Chain of command.(BTW)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The story of James Guckert a.k.a. "Jeff Gannon" seems a natural for this column, but is there anything to add? Readers will remember that Guckert was the Bush administration shill who managed to parlay his job at a phony, dot-com news service,...

'Traditional' marriage: a secular affair.(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... AS THE WORLD reaches flash-point over same-sex marriage, the United States is galloping madly in one direction--to deny civil marriage to gays. Yet many countries in Europe are galloping in the opposite direction--towards giving civil status to...

Man about Europe.(ESSAY)(Harry Count Kessler)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... THERE'S an arresting portrait of Harry Count Kessler, painted by Edvard Munch in 1906, that hangs in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. A handsome, mustached, fine-featured man looks at us from beneath a rakishly tilted white summer hat. Wearing a...

Can one be 'gay' and French?(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... IN THE EPILOGUE to his 1995 book, The Pink and the Black, which was arguably the first real history of the gay-rights movement in France, Frederic Martel questions the notion of "gay pride." He writes that he "feel[s] obliged to express...

Bennie's 2:00 John insists on a condom.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Honey, I have teased the milk from men all my life sometimes just for the love of a cock molding to my tongue, the thrum of sperm warm in my mouth so yes, I will take your little piece of plastic but that won't stop me from handing...

Alors, are we 'queer' yet?(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... IN JUNE 1997, the Centre Pompidou hosted the first conference on queer theory in France. When the presentations were done and the discussion was opened to the floor, I was surprised by the hostile tone of many of the questions and reactions...

God and gay rights in Poland.(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... ON MAY 7, 2004, in Krakow, skinheads from a far right parliamentary party, the League of Polish Families, attacked a peaceful demonstration of gays, lesbians, and their supporters with slurs and stones and caustic acid. On November 20, in...

What became of Dunstan Thompson?(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... Gay scholar and poet David Bergman called him the gayest poet of World War II, and National Endowment for the Arts chief Dana Gioia called him the best Catholic poet of the latter half of the 20th Century. This is Dunstan Thompson, who has...

Michel Tremblay, Canada's greatest playwright.(ARTIST'S PROFILE)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... Long regarded as Canada's greatest playwright, Michel Tremblay has been openly gay since the early 1970's. His stage successes began in 1968 when his early work Les Belles-Soeurs was produced on a Montreal stage. This one-act play set off a...

Diary of an unassimilated traveler (2).(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... A New York Minute, October 30, 2004 I've been on tour for over a month, traveling from West Coast to East Coast by train, and I'm exhausted. I have fibromyalgia, which basically means chronic pain all over my body and an inability to get...

Women, men, and early 'gay lib'.(ESSAY)
May 1, 2005... LAURA J. MERRELL'S response to my review of Beyond Shame, by Patrick Moore, in the January-February 2005 issue of this journal was in several ways so strangely unmeasured a rejoinder--half the length of my entire review--that I felt that it...

Reflections in the deep blue sea.(BOOKS)(Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea by Steven Dillon University of Texas Press 271 pages, $22.95 THE FILMS of Derek Jarman are difficult to categorize. Ethereal, sensual, and for the most part without a clear...

Every go-go boy deserves favor.(BOOKS)(The Go-Go Boy Sonnets)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Go-Go Boy Sonnets by Edmund Miller Inkwater Press. 312 pages, $24.95 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY supposedly said, "Only a fool has never written a sonnet, and only a fool has written more than one sonnet." But Sidney wrote scores of...

Harvard in the gay nineties (the 1890's).(BOOKS)(In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau by Larry Haeg University of Iowa Press 273 pages, $29.95 THIS IS the first published biography of Charles Flandrau, a novelist, critic, and short story writer for the...

A philosopher's case for equality.(BOOKS)(The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights by Richard Mohr Columbia University Press 160 pages, $22.95 AT AN EASILY DIGESTIBLE 136 pages, The Long Arc of Justice is a powerful little book of...

The way we go on.(Poem)
May 1, 2005... Your hot bath and talcum powder mark the calendar Saturday night as you write me a check for eight hours labor and ask me in for dinner. I smell food at the door: oatmeal and salmon teased into patties round as pennies on the...

'The Lincoln book': reviewing the reviews.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C. A. Tripp Free Press. 384 pages, $27. SOME DUST has begun to settle on C. A. Tripp's controversial new book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. For several weeks after the book's...

Race on the set (and off).(BOOKS)(Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Ballantine Books / One World. 411 pages, $26. THE FIRST TIME I read an acknowledgment of gay black Hollywood was in Paula L. Woods's Stormy Weather, the...

A searching story.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Phallos by Samuel R. Delany Bamberger Books. 95 pages, $14. WITH PHALLOS, Samuel R. Delany returns to themes familiar to readers of his work: sexuality, identity, language, and social power. Phallos contains a story within a...

Sex, truth, and videotape.(BOOKS)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 by Gregg Bordowitz, edited by James Meyer MIT Press. 307 pages, $35. COVERING a seventeen-year period, these essays chronicle the life and work of Gregg Bordowitz, an AIDS...

Aura.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Aura by Gary Glickman Haworth, Southern Tier Editions 345 pages, $19.95 (paper) Gary Glickman's Aura follows the artistic and sexual exploits of a group of friends in New York, all in their early twenties, and a few of the...

Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present Edited by E. Lynn Harris Carroll & Graf. 461 pages, $15.95 Freedom in this Village collects writings from 47 black gay authors. Although it...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... Equality Forum 2005, highlighting 40 years of GLBT rights activism, will take place April 25-May 1 in Philadelphia. For more info, visit www.equalityforum.com. Or e-mail: Michael@equalityforum.com. Lobby Days 2005 will be held May 18-20,...

A burst of GLBT offerings at Sundance 2005.(FILM BRIEFS)(The Aristocrats)(Ellie Parker)(Heights)(Movie Review)
May 1, 2005... PARK CITY, Utah -- Of all the major film festivals in the U.S., if not in the world, Sundance is undoubtedly the most gay-friendly. Established in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance has become a critical venue for independent movie makers to see...