The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from May 2009

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from May 2009

James Purdy, 1914-2009: a personal remembrance.(In memoriam)
May 1, 2009... WHEN the incomparable James Purdy passed away in March on Friday the 13, 2009, at the prodigious age of 94, he had been pretty much out of the publishing mainstream for nearly two decades. One of his last short stories, "Reaching Rose,"...

The gay media jump the page.(Essay)
May 1, 2009... THE STORIED HISTORY of print publishing by and for the GLBT community goes back to the 1950's and 60's--some would say earlier still--and its dominance as the medium of choice for that community remained unchecked until quite recently. Such is...

Sexual privacy and literary biography.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... FOR A CENTURY or more, it seemed impossible for literary biography to acknowledge a subject's homosexuality, and this was due in part to the reticence of some writers to allow an accurate record of their private life to circulate. Before his...

Mister celebrates father's day.(Poem)
May 1, 2009... Lots of daddies crowd the beach today, though not a single one of them's a father. With their Speedo-prone, sunny boys in tow, they've arrived lugging Styrofoam coolers full of Pinot Grigio and shrimp cocktails. Mister notes some strip...

Sontag Inventing Herself.(Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag Edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 318 pages, $25. ONCE upon a time, before feminism and Stonewall, I was an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl from Brooklyn...

Sounds Out of Bounds.(Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway Beacon Press. 248 pages, $23.95 DEAFENED by mycin antibiotics administered in utero, Terry Galloway hallucinated and had out-of-body experiences as a child before her disability...