The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from November 2003

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from November 2003

November-December 2003: ten years after.
November 1, 2003... This issue completes the tenth volume of this journal, a minor miracle in itself, no doubt, but also a milestone of sorts in the GLBT rights movement. For it was in the context of the events of a decade ago that this journal was first...

Lawrence was always about religious intolerance.(Guest Opinion)
November 1, 2003... In overturning Texas's "Homosexual Conduct" statute and similar statutes in twelve other states last June, the Supreme Court removed religious prohibitions of same-sex sexual conduct from state law. Few people talked about religion in the case....

Sound bites from the Lawrence decision.
November 1, 2003... "When homosexual conduct is made criminal by the law of the state, that declaration in and of itself is an invitation to subject homosexual persons to discrimination both in the public and in the private spheres." --Justice Anthony M....

Reply to critic on Shanghai Museum.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... To the editor: In his recent letter to the editor (Sept.-Oct. 2003) Andrew Calimach claims that in my piece on the Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture in Shanghai (May-June 2003), I am "parroting the duplicitous Chinese dogma on the...

In defense of a body of work.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... To the editor: My marketing director would kill me if I didn't see Edmund White's comments about my work [July-Aug. 2003 issue] as an opportunity to promote TomBianchi.com. When Chris Freeman asked Edmund about his concept of beauty,...

BTW.
November 1, 2003... Hypocrisy Watch 1 A leader of the anti-gay American Family Association (AFA), Tupelo-based Kerry Dwayne Stevens, was arrested by the FBI late last August and charged with possession of child pornography. Stevens, who faces a prison term of up...

Klaus Mann: the dancing dichterkind.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... IN 1925, when nineteen-year-old Klaus Mann had gained fame as the author of a scandalous play, a cartoon by Theodor Heine appeared in the Munich satirical magazine Simplicissimus. It showed an ephebic Klaus in short pants standing behind his...

To a Gay Virgin.(Poem)
November 1, 2003... To a Gay Virgin Forget what they told you about streets and strips Imagine, if you can, the unknown flesh, Heaving shoulders and mingling smells, The warp in your vein and the stitch on your heart. Feel the twitch, the...

The real Tadzio of Thomas Mann.(Essay)(Excerpt)
November 1, 2003... The following is excerpted from The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It (Carroll & Graf 2003). ON A DECEMBER afternoon in 1910 Thomas Mann treated his immediate family circle, his wife and elder brother,...

To the Man Who Would Have Loved Me.(Poem)
November 1, 2003... To the Man Who Would Have Loved Me I don't believe when you speak of trouble, blue steam of dead colt the legs circling ice off the shank, father caught in white briefs one winter evening the dusky skin ...

Lawrence v. Texas: a victory for liberty.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... ON MAY 1, 2003, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed the students at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. Following her prepared remarks, O'Connor was asked the following question: "[For] much of the 20th century, race...

Legal challenges after Lawrence.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... WHAT IS THE MEANING of Lawrence v. Texas for future gay rights litigation? Removing the stigma of criminality from gay relations will undoubtedly be helpful in an array of cases, although it is well to remember that statutes other than sodomy...

Lawrence brings it all back home.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... IN STRIKING DOWN the Texas law that made consensual sex in private between members of the same sex a criminal act, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the majority of the Supreme Court, wrote that the Texas law "demeans the lives of...

Case against marriage equality implodes.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING in Lawrence v. Texas overturned the Court's infamous Bowers v. Hardwick decision of 1986, which had ruled that gay people's private sexual intimacy did not warrant constitutional protection in the bedroom because...

Marriage just lets the state back in.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... WHAT DO YOU DO after you've won one of the most important Supreme Court cases in decades and shoved the state, kicking and screaming, out of your bedroom? Apparently, you beg the government to walk fight back in. "The Marriage Revolution" has...

David Daniels, singing in a new key.(Artist's Profile)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... DAVID DANIELS occupies a rarefied category of classical singer: the countertenor, a male range above tenor that corresponds to a mezzo-soprano range. Widely regarded as the leading countertenor of oar time, Daniels sings a repertoire that...

How the UN can advance gay rights.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... THE OUTRAGES against human dignity committed by the Nazis in World War II galvanized the global community in its search for justice and reconciliation, beginning with the trials of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945. The second half of the...

New gene theory rests on bad science.(Essay / Review)
November 1, 2003... J. MICHAEL BAILEY'S The Man Who Would Be Queen has sparked a firestorm of outrage. Bailey is chair of the Northwestern University Department of Psychology and has specialized in studying the inheritance patterns and behavioral traits of...

Writing, drinking, quarelling: it was the 50's.(Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s )(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker Cleis Press. 246 pages, $14.95 MARIJANE MEAKER, author of the charming and quirky novel Shockproof Sydney Skate (1972), has written a thoroughly compelling memoir recalling her brief but...

Pierre Loti's islands of adventure.(In Love with a Handsome Sailor)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... In Love with a Handsome Sailor by Richard M. Berrong Univ. of Toronto Press. 310 pages, $60. BROWSING the used booksellers' bins along the quais of the Seine can still be a good, if misleading, literary education. Nowadays only a few...

A tale of two Eastern European cities.(International Spectrum)
November 1, 2003... RECENT gay fights activism in much of Eastern Europe has been driven by the desire to become eligible for membership in the European Union (EU), which imposes a list of fairly stringent requirements on member countries in the sphere of human...

Burdens of the powerless.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Culture by Ann Cvetkovich Duke University Press 355 pages, $22.95 (paper) WHILE MOST SCHOLARS of Romantic poetry are not Romantic poets, most queer theory professors were at...

The prose behind O'Hara's poetry.(Digressions on Some Poems)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara: A Memoir by Joe LeSueur Farrar Straus & Giroux 336 pages, $25. IN 1949, at twenty-nine, Joe LeSueur moved to New York with little more than his Tab Hunter good looks. At a 1951 New Year's Eve party...

Slime Molds Have Eleven Sexes.(Poem)
November 1, 2003... Slime Molds Have Eleven Sexes Brilliant! Once disgusting snots that crawled invisibly across the sludgy bottom of our elegant taxonomies--now the hippest thing imaginable. Brilliant, you, beyond the binary, not...

How sex survived.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex by Richard Berkowitz Westview Press. 224 pages, $22. STAYIN' ALIVE is a compelling tell-all memoir by a gay an who co-wrote How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach, which was the first "safe...

Playing to the back wall.(Lives of the Circus Animals)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Lives of the Circus Animals by Christopher Bram William Morrow. 352 pages, $24.95 IN YEATS'S "foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart"--the last line of the poem from which the title of this novel is derived--Christopher Bram has found his...

Two quests in a nutshell.(The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament; Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament by Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. Pilgrim Press. 254 pages, $28. Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe by Toby Johnson Alyson...

Gal on the go.(That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by Robert A. Shanke Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 210 pages (illustrated), $45. MERCEDES de Acosta was a star fucker. She was lovers with Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Isadora Duncan,...

The opposite of longing.(The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life by Brian Bouldrey Terrace Books/Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 294 pages, $24.95 DENNIS Bacchus, the main character of Brian Bouldrey's new novel, The Boom Economy, wants to become a priest. When a...

How Sex Changed: a History of Trenssexuality in the United States.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Joanne Meyerowitz Harvard University Press. 384 pp., $29.95 Christine Jorgensen became an international sensation in 1952 when the press trumpeted her "sex change" surgery in Denmark. Her story was all the more dramatic because she had been...

Strapped for Cash: a History of American Hustler Culture.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... by Mack Friedman Alyson Publications. 287 pp., $19.95 Cashing in on readers' seemingly ceaseless fascination with hustling, tricking, and the history of gay prostitution in America, Mack Friedman has fashioned a serious but entertaining...

Kate Remembered.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... by A. Scott Berg G. P. Putnam's Sons. 370 pp., $25.95 Four-time Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn died at the age of 96 on June 29 at her house in Fenwick, Connecticut. Twelve days later, Kate Remembered a book almost no one knew about...

Eyes on the guys: gay men's turn on TV.(Television)
November 1, 2003... Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Bravo Network Boy Meets Boy Bravo Network IT WASN'T so long ago that the word "queer" was a political hot potato. Its history as a derogatory term led the early gay rights movement to disown it. Then...