The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from November 2001

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from November 2001

September 11, 2001: Implications for Gay Rights.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Like everyone else at press time, I still cannot bring myself to talk or write about anything but the events of September 11. We mourn the loss of the thousands of dead and their families and friends; and praise the heroism of Mark Bingham, the...

Jerry Falwell's Cruel and Unusual God. (Guest Opinion).(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 and American morals and society)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... I assume everyone has seen by now seen the transcript of Pat Robertson's conversation with the Reverend Jerry Falwell on the 700 Club TV network on September 13. But to review his most notorious remarks: Falwell: The abortionists have got...

The Coors Whore Award. (BTW).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Coors Beer, Inc. was once widely maligned in the gay community for supporting homophobic causes and clients, but in recent years the company has seemingly cleaned up its act by doing things like offering its gay employees domestic partner...

For Better or Worse. (BTW).(newspaper comic strip)
November 1, 2001... Two dozen newspapers reportedly requested alternative comic strips when United Media's "For Better or Worse" was scheduled to feature a gay character for three days last September (9/6-8). Lynn Johnston's comic strip tells the ongoing saga of...

A station of our own--not yet. (BTW).(Gay Television Network)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... It seemed for a while that GLBT people were finally going to get a TV station of their own, as a California-based entity called the Gay Television Network (GTN) announced with some fanfare the imminent arrival of a satellite-based broadcast...

Words and deeds. (BTW).(anti-gay activities)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Officially sanctioned homophobes (Catholic cardinals, Protestant televangelists) have always denied that their homophobic words contribute to actual violence against gay people, but the connection between words and actions could scarcely have...

File under One stop shopping. (BTW).(sexually transmitted disease testing, same-sex marriage services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Two recent openings in southern California bear mentioning. First, the famous Hollywood Spa bathhouse has begun offering HIV and other STD testing and counseling right inside the club. The clinic will be run by the Centers for Disease Control,...

A first for an SSR. (BTW).(Ukraine opens gay and lesbian community center)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Ukraine's fledgling gay and lesbian movement has struggled for some years to establish a legitimate presence there, so it was with evident satisfaction that a group announced the opening of a gay and lesbian community center in Lugansk,...

Correspondence.
November 1, 2001... On the Error of Falwell's Ways To the Editors: After reading Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson's comments blaming the ACLU, abortionists, and gays for the horrific tragedy at the World Trade Center, I recalled Janis Walworth's op-ed...

Correction.
November 1, 2001... Dear Editor: I liked the review of Stoppard's wonderful Housman play [Sept.-Oct. issue]. One correction, though: "I shook his hand..." (from "He would not stay for me...") is not in A Shropshire Lad, but was published posthumously in...

How Criminal Was Castro? (Essay).(Fidel Castro, Cuba and gay rights)
November 1, 2001... Editor's note: Two letters in our last issue could not have clashed more sharply on the question of Castro's treatment of gay people in Cuba since the Communist Revolution of 1960. Both were responding to Michael Haas's favorable review of...

Ghazal.(Poem)
November 1, 2001... She took what wasn't hers to take: desire for all that's not her, for what might awake desire. With it, the day's a quest, a question, answered where- ever eye, mind lights. Desire seeks, but one can't seek desire. A frayed...

The Citizenship of Strangers. (Interview).(interview with Shane Phelan)(Interview)
November 1, 2001... SHANE PHELAN Shane Phelan is the author of the recently published Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbian, and Dilemmas of Citizenship, an analysis of the lesbian and gay community's current political condition. Until recently, Phelan was the...

How Gay Paperbacks Changed America. (Essay).
November 1, 2001... IN an era when gay books are widely published and available, it can easily be forgotten that not so many years ago--well within the span of a lifetime--gay subject matter was taboo in the publishing industry. The breakthrough came during and...

Fictions about Pulp. (Essay).(publishing industry)
November 1, 2001... PULP novels: everyone knows the covers. With their fabulously garish colors, their cartoonish, mockheroic studs and tempting titles, such as The Butt Boy, Dirt Road Cousins, Three on a Broomstick, and Up Your Pleasure, they're old-time gay male...

Lucian's Place. (Essay).(profile of Lucian Phelps, star at Finocchio's nightclub)
November 1, 2001... FINOCCHIO'S was for several decades, starting in 1936, a San Francisco institution, a club that featured first-class drag entertainers and attracted tourists from all over the world. The performers at Finocchio's never lip-synched their songs...

No Cure for French-Canadians.(Poem)
November 1, 2001... Whenever I see pictures of Montreal, I come without touching myself. Montreal is one huge maggotry of hairy French-Canadian men with hot and cold running Rabelais in their veins. Oh, I am God-lost bent, nuts, crazed for...

August, 1953: One magazine tackles the marriage issue.(Reprint)
November 1, 2001... The following article appeared in the August, 1953, issue of ONE magazine, the first journal by and for gays and lesbians in the U.S. In fact, this was ONE's first year of publication. I put forward this particular article because it deals with...

Come back to the batmobile, Robin honey. (Essay).
November 1, 2001... I KNOW, I know, it's a new era of liberation. A raft of Emmys for Will and Grace. Openly gay recurring characters on almost every network. A new joy-of-sex chapter unfolding each week on Showtime. Turn on a channel any time of the day or night,...

Lesbian Images in the Classic Film Era: Beth Mauldin talks with a lesbian film documentarian. (Interview).(Interview)
November 1, 2001... Barbara Hammer has produced some seventy documentaries in her thirty-plus years as a filmmaker. Among them are Nitrate Kisses and Tender Fictions, both of which were featured at the Sundance Film Festival, among other film festivals in the U.S....

Charles Henri Ford Was There. (Essay).(poet)
November 1, 2001... MANY attended Gertrude Stein's salon in Paris during the 1930's; there was a crowd who made the scene at Andy Warhol's New York Factory during the 1960's; there were others who helped find an audience for the European expatriate artists in the...

The Queen Goes Courting. (Books).(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France)
November 1, 2001... Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser Doubleday. 608 pp., $35. Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever Farrar Straus & Giroux. 352 pp., $30. WHAT'S all the fuss about Marie Antoinette,...

The Interpretation of Disease. (Books).(The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present)
November 1, 2001... The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present by Peter Lewis Allen University of Chicago Press 202 pages, illustrated. $25. THE introduction to Peter Mien's The Wages of Sin had me in tears--and that's saying a lot for a...

Poor Little Ugly Duckling. (Book).(Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller)
November 1, 2001... Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager Alfred A. Knopf.496 pages, $30. WHEN Hans Christian Andersen traveled to England in 1857 to see one of the few living writers whose international fame...

Love, Athenian Style. (Books).(The Banquet)
November 1, 2001... Plato's The Banquet Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by John Lauritsen Pagan Press. 96 pages, $8. (paper) Alcibiades the Schoolboy by Antonio Rocco Translated by J. C. Rawnsley Entimos Press (Amsterdam)...

Tales of the Unnoticed. (Books).(The Rose City)
November 1, 2001... The Rose City by David Ebershoff Viking. 220 pages, $23.95 Simply stated, David Ebershoff's The Rose City is one of the most beautifully written books of fiction in recent years. The collection's seven short stories and the...

Passing into Legend. (Books).(The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire & Catalina de Erauso)
November 1, 2001... The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire & Catalina de Erauso by Sherry Velasco University of Texas Press. 248 pages, $17.95 Born in 1592, Catalina de Erauso, known as the Monja Alferez ("Lieutenant Nun"), was a Basque...

Prose from a Poet of the Left. (Books).(Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations)
November 1, 2001... Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich W.W. Norton & Company. 256 pages, $23.95 Besides being one of the indisputably great poets of our times, Adrienne Rich is also a major thinker, activist, and essayist....

All the Satirized People. (Books).(Onyx)
November 1, 2001... Onyx by Felice Picano Alyson Books. 336 pages, $24.95 Jesse is in the late stages of AIDS and getting sicker, while his long-time lover Ray is exploring unexpected new avenues of opportunity both in his music career and in a...

What a Novelist Believes. (Books).(The Practical Heart)
November 1, 2001... The Practical Heart Allan Gurganus Knopf. 352 pages, $25. You can tell a lot about a person by the jokes he makes. Take Allan Gurganus, author of the best-selling 1989 book Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. While...

The Mother of the Woman. (Books).(Cool for You)
November 1, 2001... Cool for You by Eileen Myles Soft Skull Press. 196 pages, $14. Cool for You is a powerful, pungent memoir by poet Eileen Myles about growing up female in the "confused upwardly mobile working class" of Boston in the 1960's. Tastes...

Middle of the Reel. (Books).(Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies)
November 1, 2001... Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies Edited by Mathew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo Routledge, 397 pages, $25. Like a number of other recent anthologies, Keyframes adopts what has come to be known as a "cultural studies"...

Anna M. Curren is a nurse-educator whose avocation is "the Ladies of Llangollen," two women whose lives in Regency-era Wales have been recorded in both popular and scholarly literature. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Anna M. Curren is a nurse-educator whose avocation is "the Ladies of Llangollen," two women whose lives in Regency-era Wales have been recorded in both popular and scholarly literature. Curren has taken another approach in Love, Above the Reach...

Traditionalist academics may scoff at the idea that a student could earn a doctorate from a well-respected university by writing a book about Batman. (Briefs).
November 1, 2001... Traditionalist academics may scoff at the idea that a student could earn a doctorate from a well-respected university by writing a book about Batman. After reading Will Brooker's Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon (Continuum Books),...

Teenagers encountering their first gay experiences are destined to be frustrated, or so we learn from Come Undone. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Teenagers encountering their first gay experiences are destined to be frustrated, or so we learn from Come Undone ("Presque Rien"), directed by Sebastien Lifshitz, a film with many flash-forwards leading to a time when the lead character tries...

Conferences/Events.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The 14th Annual Creating Change Conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will be held Nov. 7-11, at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more info, visit Website at www.ngltf.org. The International Network of Lesbian...

Orgullo Mexicano 2001: Pride Week in Mexico City. (International Spectrum).
November 1, 2001... The week and weekend before our Independence Day in the USA, I went to visit my friends in Mexico City, unaware that I would participate in the most interesting Gay Pride Week of my life. For the last ten days in June, the world's most populous...

What is your quest?(The Adventures of Felix)
November 1, 2001... The Adventures of Felix Written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau Centre National de la Cinematographie If you knew that your days were numbered because you had AIDS--and until recently AIDS was seen as a death...

Aristophanes Rocks. (Films).(Hedwig and the Angry Inch )
November 1, 2001... Hedwig and the Angry Inch Written by John Cameron Mitchell New Line Cinema/Killer Films FOR a film that stands foursquare behind transgender liberation, acceptance of prostitution as a legitimate way of life, and the celebration of loving...