The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from November 2002

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from November 2002

Nov.-Dec. 2002: "queries philosophical".
November 1, 2002... This issue and the last one offer a group of essays that came in response to a somewhat vague call for papers for a forthcoming "philosophy issue," whatever that might mean. Some that I received--those in the last issue--focused on important...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2002... BETTY BERZON RESPONDS TO REVIEWER To the Editor: Because this publication is one of integrity and class, I wish to respond to your review of my autobiography, Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story in the Sept.-Oct. 2002 issue. ...

Meet you in Lynchberg. (BTW).(gay Christian group Soulforce sets up headquarters in Lynchberg, Virginia, across from Jerry Falwell's church)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... "Go where the sinners are," has long been a motto of evangelical Christians. it was perhaps in this spirit that Rev. Mel White's gay Christian group "Soulforce" recently set up shop right across the street from Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road...

Reality slips away. (BTW).(reality show about 5 gay men living on Fire Island stops production)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... After just two weekends of filming, HBO pulled the plug on a reality-based show about five gay men sharing a summer house in the Pines on Fire Island. According to some subjects of the film, HBO executive VP of original programming Sheila...

It finally happened. (BTW).(New York Times reports same-sex commitment ceremonies on wedding announcement page)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The New York Times began announcing same-sex commitment ceremonies along with straight weddings in its "Sunday Styles" section, that ultimate arbiter of who's really who in American "society." Gay activists who've been fighting for the right...

Conspicuous nonchalance. (BTW).(New York Times report on Enron executive Michael J. Kopper casually mentions his domestic partner)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Meanwhile, if wedding announcements m the Times point to the banality of equality, so does its coverage of one of the principle players in the Enron scandal, the one who sung first, as it were, by agreeing to rat on his colleagues in order to...

25 AB (After Bryant). (BTW).(Anita Bryant; supporters of anti-gay rights measure in Dade County Florida arrested for fraudulent signatures)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... The defeat of a referendum to repeal Dade County's gay rights law is now ancient history (as of last September), but it featured some of the more egregious examples of what's becoming a nationwide pattern: the use of trickery and fraud by...

California credibility gap. (BTW).(gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's conflicting statements on gay marriage)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... August 27, 2002: "I do not believe that sexual orientation should be a factor in the recognition by the state of such relationships." -- Bill Simon, Republican candidate for governor of California after a meeting with the state's Log Cabin...

Theatre of the queer. (Essay).
November 1, 2002... HOWARD CRABTREE, the musical-comedy performer and giddily imaginative costume designer who died of AIDS in June 1996, created his final opus When Pigs Fly as a tribute to all the "Dream Curlys" of the world. They're the ones who got cast as the...

Homoerotic behavior in human evolution. (Essay).
November 1, 2002... This piece is excerpted and adapted from an article that first appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 40(1), 2000. THE MOST widely recognized evolutionary theory of homosexuality is that of E. O. Wilson (1975). The theory holds that...

Diane Derrick: the making of a sculptor. (Artist's Profile).(Biography)
November 1, 2002... When I look at Diane Derrick and her brother Neil, who is my partner, it seems to me that they're two space children who somehow were dropped into an American ranch family out in the Central Valley of California, amid ordinary parents who could...

'Gay' and the disappearing [+female]. (Essay).
November 1, 2002... ENGLISH BORROWED the word "gay" from Old French "gai." Its ancestral meaning is "happy, carefree, hedonistic," qualities long associated with male homosexuals. In time, the term came to denote the "effeminate, pretentious male character roles"...

Why Baby Gauvin is not a victim. (Essay).(deaf lesbian mothers accused of child abuse for genetically planning deaf infant)
November 1, 2002... IT'S THE STUFF that Lifetime Television movies are made of. Sharon Duchesneau and Candace McCullough are deaf lesbian parents. On Thanksgiving Day 2001, Sharon gave birth to a baby boy, Gauvin. Preliminary tests indicate that Gauvin is...

Gay rights and European citizenship. (Essay).
November 1, 2002... THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) has been cautiously approaching the notion of the "European citizen"* as a person endowed with certain rights, privileges, and responsibilities traditionally held as the exclusive jurisdiction of nation states. Including...

That we are human, we have rights. (Essay).(gay rights)
November 1, 2002... ONE OF THE PERENNIAL disagreements in moral and political philosophy is whether it is possible to reach ethical and political judgments that have universal applicability--judgments that apply across all cultures and historical periods. On...

Lost in the filmfest circuit. (Essay).(how films with gay content are distributed)
November 1, 2002... LAST YEAR, while doing research for an article on lesbian films and studying the film festival schedule in Seattle, I became interested in a film called Julie Johnson, which concerned a New Jersey housewife's coming-of-age as a lesbian,...

$200 per.(Poem)
November 1, 2002... $200 per What the money gets you: a full hour. A well- tuned body, dark skin rippling to do with what you please (Extreme scenes are extra, the most extreme absolutely out). Freedom: a lack of inhibition. A willing slate upon...

Home of "the glorious bird". (Books).(Tennessee Williams and the South)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Tennessee Williams and the South by Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt University Press of Mississippi 111 pages, $30. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and the South is what I call a yum-yum book--a collection of superb photo...

The science of sexual liberation.(Departing From Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Departing From Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America by Henry L. Minton University of Chicago Press 344 pages, $65. ($20. paper) IN 1949, Alfred Kinsey wrote to Thomas Painter, his...

Life in a land of 'smoke, lilies, and jade'.(Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent Edited by Thomas H. Wirth Duke University Press. 294 pages, $24.95 (paper) A LAIN LOCKE, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Wallace Thurman,...

Two paths to liberalism.(Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative; The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock Crown. 336 pages, $25.95 The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right by Richard Goldstein Verso. 108 pages, $22. WE HAVE HERE two...

The magnum opus of Magnus Hirschfeld.(The Homosexuality of Men and Women)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfeld Translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash Prometheus Books. 1209 pages, $200. THE GAY MOVEMENT has never known anyone quite like Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a small,...

Handle with care.(Hazmat)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Hazmat By J.D. McClatchy Knopf. 83 pages, $23. J.D. MCCLATCHY'S first two books were extremely decorous affairs. They did not try to please everyone, of course, but they seemed designed to win the approval and appreciation of...

Essays of a memorialized life.(A Ned Rorem Reader)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... A Ned Rorem Reader Yale University Press 287 pages, $29.95 NED ROREM is a composer of serious music who also happens to be a good and a prolific writer, and it remains to be seen whether he will ultimately be known better for his...

Memories of underdevelopment.(Letters to Montgomery Clift)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit MacAdam / Cage Publishing. 240 pages, $25. THE United States is a country built upon the immigrant experience. Each story has its singular elements, yet common themes abound: mastering a...

Why the U.S. lags Europe.(The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Stephen M. Engel Cambridge University Press. 231 pages, $60. ($22. paper) STEPHEN M. Engel presents us with a puzzle. Social movements in...

Dangerous grounds.(Avoidance)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal Graywolf Press, 272 pages.. MICHAEL Lowenthal set the bar high for himself with his first novel, 1999's The Same Embrace. His new novel Avoidance avoids the second-novel slump and delivers a finely...

Summer Bees.(Poem)
November 1, 2002... Summer Bees She used to make love like quite a different woman and the night air was always cool and fragrant the moment we started teasing one another She knew the names of all those heady flowers, and she called our Qutb names...

The artist who removed the Loincloth.(Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male by John Esten Universe Publishing 80 pages, illustrated, $29.95 THE AMERICAN PAINTER Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and American bard Walt Whitman (1819-1892) were good friends. The two were drawn...

Hose.(Poem)
November 1, 2002... Hose My uncle Jimmy and Gino, two bulky, masculine men (who, even after we all came out to one another, stole a kiss discreetly down a darkened entrance hall) hung their rinsed-out hose along the shower rack: calf-length,...