The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from May 2006

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from May 2006

May-June 2006: "I am a camera".(David Hockney)(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... This is not the first issue we've done on the visual arts; and each time it is a plunge into an ocean of art and artists past and present that crowd our attention. Maybe the stereotype is true and gay people really are more artistic; maybe all...

"Sexual behavior" is back in U.S. security checks.(Column)
May 1, 2006... Newly revised guidelines issued by President Bush's National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley once again allow consideration of sexual orientation when issuing security clearances. This information was first reported today by the news site Raw...

Whitman's desired identity.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: Regarding John Champagne's letter, "Anachronistic Whitman," (Jan.-Feb. 2006 issue): Perhaps English departments everywhere are still atwitter over the difference between same-sex desire and homosexual identity. But we...

More on Palestine and a reply.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: I am responding to Farris Wahbeh's article, "Palestine and 'World Pride 2005'" in the Jan.-Feb. 2006 issue. I found the allegation of Israeli Government "acts of.... genocide" offensive and irresponsible. A very serious...

"The 70's" earned its mixed reputation.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: In his essay on "Gay Sex in the 70's" [March-April 2006], Jim Downs also makes an important point about how we interpret events as "morality plays," filtering our experiences as we render them into history. I was especially...

Once there were sexual outlaws.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: In your editorial of March-April 2006 ("Lingering Controversies"), what exactly were the "sordid details" you noted--worse, called "lurid" by Neil McKenna and "tawdry" by Michael Hattersley ("Did Oscar Wilde Set Back Gay...

If Jack and Ennis had met in Cambridge.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor, As someone who has lived with the same man for the past forty years, I was moved to tears by the truly beautiful, but tragic film, Brokeback Mountain--beautiful because of the characters, the scenery, and the acting, but...

This will be on the test.(Netherlands, immigration)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Recent dustups in France, Denmark, and elsewhere have exposed the cultural divide between Europe's secular democracies and their more theocratically inclined immigrant populations. This has threatened to produce an anti-immigrant backlash in...

Roots of a fatal decision.(homophobia)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... A small-town police chief has been named in a federal lawsuit for preventing a would-be rescuer from administering CPR to a heart attack victim who was known to be gay. Claude Green, 43, died after being stricken just yards from City Hall in...

From: associated press, 1/21/06*.(Ned Reidy, priest excommunicated)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... "In a rare heresy trial, the local diocese has convicted and excommunicated a priest who joined a denomination that doubts papal infallibility and doesn't follow church teachings on homosexuality, abortion, and ordination of women clergy. The...

Adopt this bill!(child adoption)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... An Ohio Democrat is proposing a law that would prevent Republicans from adopting children, a move aimed at embarrassing the GOP over recent efforts to block gay adoptions. State Senator Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown) admits his bill is...

Damned if you do.(Chad Allen)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... End of the Spear was being hailed by evangelical Christians as the next big movie to get their message out to the flocks. The drama about the 1956 murder of five American missionaries in Ecuador was poised for a zealous opening--until it was...

Queering the cowboy.(Gay Rodeo Association )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Of all the mindfucks that Brokeback Mountain inflicted on an unsuspecting public, perhaps the greatest was that Jack Twist, the unambiguously gay one, was a rodeo bronco rider, and a pretty good one at that. This led The New York Times to go...

Not quitting Brokeback.(Brokeback Mountain)
May 1, 2006... BY NOW the Big Movie has left the theaters and come out on DVD and begun its long afterlife from rental store to airline movie to free "on demand" selection and regular rerun on Logo TV. But Brokeback Mountain was one of those rare movies that...

No ordinary love story.(Brokeback Mountain)
May 1, 2006... The following is excerpted and adapted from a piece that appeared in the February 23, 2006, issue of The New York Review of Books. Brokeback Mountain is a film about two gay men. Two homosexual men: it is strange to have to say it just now...

Lost in adaptation.(Brokeback Mountain)
May 1, 2006... IN THE MONTHS since its first limited release, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain has snowballed into a Rocky Mountain avalanche, sweeping every other movie aside, scooping up dozens of awards (but not the best picture Oscar), fanning across the...

The hate crime.(Brokeback Mountain )
May 1, 2006... PERHAPS the most enigmatic scene in Brokeback Mountain is when Jack Twist's wife Lureen tells Ennis over the telephone that Jack is dead. She relates how Jack had stopped on the side of a road to fix a tire only to have it explode, killing him....

Beyond the mountain.
May 1, 2006... IT IS TEMPTING to suggest that we're at a watershed moment in American filmmaking, what with the current release of movies that have produced Academy Award nominations for four performances by actors playing gay, bisexual, or trans-gendered...

The afterlife of George Platt Lynes.(homoerotic photography)
May 1, 2006... A FEW YEARS AGO I came across one of the last photographs taken by George Platt Lynes. It was of a French soldier on a street in Paris from October, 1955. I went searching for this photograph recently among the published monographs of his work,...

Love poem.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... The madness of cereal boxes, Coffee with Elvis, Forsythia, The morning's white moon. The jade tree dresses itself in silence, Balancing the day in its arms. I wait for words. The torsion of bodies Twisted into a poem....

How to change vandalism into art.
May 1, 2006... AT THE BEGINNING of 2001, the staff of the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library began finding books carved with a sharp instrument hidden under shelving units. Over 600 books relating to issues of gay,...

"Love is the only serious subject.": Lester Strong talks with a modern portrait master David Hockney.(Interview)
May 1, 2006... OVER THE SPAN of his fifty-year artistic career, David Hockney has drawn or painted portraits of a great many people, most of them family members, friends, or lovers, and he's portrayed many of them on multiple occasions in a variety of media....

Van Vechten's secret.(Carl Van Vechten, male nude photography)
May 1, 2006... I OVERHEARD a piece of gossip more than ten years ago while at a New York City dinner party concerning the recent opening of previously sealed archives containing some extraordinary photographs of male nudes taken by Carl Van Vechten...

From Cole St.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... At your front door all that week new flowers, notes, a photo of you alone, each morning I passed there I'd see the tribunes spread to you across the stone. You are gone. It was quick. That is all. And now these remnants at your...

Linda Stein: sculptor of the 'warrior woman'.(Interview)
May 1, 2006... Born and raised in the Bronx, Linda Stein developed an early fascination with penmanship that would turn into a career in calligraphy starting in the 1970's. With clients like Tiffany's and Cartier, she established her own calligraphy company...

Warhol's women (one in particular).(Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas, Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2006... The following is an edited excerpt from the recently published Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (University of Minnesota Press). THE JUNE, 1968, afternoon on which Valerie Solanas shot up Andy Warhol's studio has been taken as...

Night sky.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... Entering you is like walking into a lake on a summer evening when the air is the same temperature as the water and it's already too dark to see where the surface begins. I lie on my back and you hold me up. I watch stars emerge.

Larry Jens Anderson's gay merit badges.
May 1, 2006... BACK IN 1987, a group of Atlanta-based artists gathered to discuss the state of the visual arts in their city. Their conclusion? Many felt that their work was regarded as taboo for Atlanta audiences. So, they mounted an exhibit titled "Taboo"...

Keys to the kingdom of Edmund.(My Lives: An Autobiography)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... My Lives: An Autobiography by Edmund White Ecco (HarperCollins). 356 pages, $25. THE CELEBRATED "FATHER" of modern gay literature had Christian Science roots so entrenched that when he was a grown man he had developed an uncanny...

Celeste.(Poem)
May 1, 2006... I simply cannot deal With dead moles On our doorstep At 2:31 in the morning. And I love Our cat, who presents them, grinning (with a smile like a child Who paints a pretty picture) But this kitty holocaust Is just not love. And...

My father, my self.(Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin 232 pages, $19.95 DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR is the much beloved comic strip that Alison Bechdel has been writing for over twenty years. The strip, and the eleven...

Eighty years of gross indecency.(Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957)(Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook University of Chicago Press 320 pages, $29. Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times by Morris Kaplan Cornell...

Can science explain gender nonconformity?(The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights by Deborah Rudacille Pantheon Books. 355 pages, $26. TRANSGENDERISM continues to be a perplexing, if not a disturbing, phenomenon to many people, including otherwise...

Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art, the Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami St. Martin's Press. 224 pages, $29.95 Diana Souhami is a well-known author who's knowledgeable in all things Sapphic...

Speeding: The Old Reliable Photos of David Hurles.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Speeding: The Old Reliable Photos of David Hurles Edited by Rex Green Candy Press. 156 pages, $26.95 This book tells us a lot of things. First thought: it makes you contemplate how vast the Old Reliable catalogue must actually be....

Michel Foucault.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Michel Foucault by David Macey Reaktion Books. 160 pages, $16.95 The latest entry in Reaktion's "Critical Lives" series, which also features books on Jean Genet and Pablo Picasso, Michel Foucault provides a biographical sketch and...

Bohemian rhapsodies.(The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era by Edward Field University of Wisconsin Press. 284 pages, $29.95 LUCKILY FOR US, there appears no end in sight to stories about the leading...

De-sexing the Middle Ages.(Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto Others)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto Others by Ruth Mazo Karras Routledge Press. 200 pages, 27.95 SCHOLARS CONTINUE to be conflicted over medieval homosexuality. They all agree that same-sex acts occurred, but they disagree...

Brokeback moments.(Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendship by William E. Benemann Harrington Park Press. 361 pages, $29.95 IT MAY BE coincidental that William E. Benemann's broad survey of early American male-male intimacy has...

The 'fabulous' factor.(How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization by Cathy Crimmins Tarcher/Penguin Group. 216 pages, $14.95 CATHY CRIMMINS loves gay men and, if nothing else, How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization is an exuberant tribute to them and to...

Experiments in modernism.(The Last Time I Saw You)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Last Time I Saw You by Rebecca Brown City Lights Books. 136 pages, $12.95 (paper) WE LIVE in a world of electronic everything. If a writer of fiction wants to connect with a reader about "the Truth," he or she must put it in a...

My own private Wyoming.(Wounded)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Wounded by Percival Everett Graywolf Press. 242 pages, $23. WOUNDED IS ostensibly about a gay bashing in contemporary Wyoming. The action of the novel begins with a gay bashing that occurs at the same time of year as that of...

Dubai port deal follows anti-gay crackdown.(INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM)
May 1, 2006... Even before the deal was announced that would have given the United Arab Emirates (UAE) control of five U.S. ports, reports were circulating about serious human rights abuses in the UAE involving gay men. So alarming were these reports that a...

Conferences/events.(Bulletin Board)
May 1, 2006... International GLBT Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections Conf. will be held in Minneapolis, May 18-21. For more info, e-mail: glbtalms@umn.edu. Or call: 612-624-4938. Family Pride's Academic Symposium on current research...

GLBT films keep comin' at Sundance '06.(Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon)(Kinky Boots)(Old Joy)(Small Town Gay Bar)(This Film Is Not Yet Rated)(The World According to Sesame Street)(Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner)(Movie review)
May 1, 2006... PARK CITY, UTAH -- Widely considered the most GLBT-friendly non-gay film festival in the country, the 2006 Sundance Film Festival's program once again included several GLBT films from the United States and around the world. "This festival is...