The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from September 2001

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from September 2001

"In the Age of the Closet" (Sept.-Oct. 2001).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... "The age of the closet" could be most any age, but the period I have in mind starts in the 19th century and ends--or begins to end--in the latter half of the 20th. For it was in the earlier century that "the closet" as we know it was first...

Does God Punish Gays? A Statistical Approach.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, once warned Orlando, Florida, that it was courting natural disaster by allowing gay pride flags to be flown along its streets. "A condition like this will bring about... earthquakes,...

Correspondence.
September 1, 2001... Eminem and the Critics To the Editor: Tavia Turkish is right [May-June 2001 issue] that language is often poor when facing art, but she doesn't help matters by suggesting that Eminem is merely "acting out feelings on stage instead of...

BTW.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Playing the "child abuse" card. Catholic University of America abruptly canceled a major "ex-gay" conference slated to be held on its premises last May, charging that the three-day event had been booked under "false pretenses." Sponsored by...

Pictures Didn't Lie Back Then.(exhibition of daguerreotypes of male couples)
September 1, 2001... WHO among us is not charmed, or perhaps haunted, by the anonymous faces that stare out from 19th-century daguerreotypes or the sepia-toned postcard photos we come upon randomly at a flea market? Who were these people, we wonder; and how have...

The "Gay Gene" Is Born.
September 1, 2001... BIOMEDICAL research and speculation into the etiology of same-sex attraction burgeoned in the mid-nineteenth century and were the foundation of our contemporary notion of homosexuality. The matters of "sodomy" and "pederasty" have, of course,...

Emily Dickinson's Love Letters to Sue.(Sue Gilbert, future sister-in-law)
September 1, 2001... The following passage is excerpted from A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence, published by the University of Massachusetts Press (September, 2001). References to letters are designated by an "L" followed by the standard...

A young man's letter to his sister, 1848.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... THE following letter provides a window into the life and feelings of a college boy who lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina, prior to the Civil War. The small town of Hillsborough is located in the central Piedmont region of that state where...

Yale Diary, 1858.
September 1, 2001... THE Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection includes undergraduate letters and diaries from throughout the University's history. It was while doing other research that I came upon the diary of one Edward Chase Sheffield for the year 1858, the...

The Arrest of a Sodomite, 1723.
September 1, 2001... IF you want to know what early modem theologians, magistrates, and doctors thought about sexual relations between individuals of the same sex, you can go to the library and look up their views. If you want to know what ordinary men did...

Walt Whitman at Home.(Interview)
September 1, 2001... Gary Schmidgall is the editor of the recently published volume, Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 (University of Iowa Press), which condenses the nearly 5,000 pages of Traubel's...

What Xena Giveth, Xena Taketh Away.
September 1, 2001... I saw Xena for the first time a few months ago when my five-year-old son Noah and I were looking for something fun to watch on television. The fighting scene that we stumbled onto, in which Xena defied gravity and battled multiple assailants,...

The Howler.(review of 3 books by Allen Ginsberg)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Selected Poems, 1947-95 by Allen Ginsberg Harperperennial. 464 pages, $18. spontaneous mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996 by Allen Ginsberg Edited by David Carter Harperperennial. 603 pages, $40. Deliberate...

Poets of Iberia.(review of 4 books)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dark Domain by Eugenio de Andrade Translated by Alexis Levitin Guernica Editions. 67 pages, $10. Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid Translated by Peter Cole Princeton University Press 233 pages, $45. ($14.95 paper) Selected...

Strange Century, the Fourteenth.(Mirabilis)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Mirabilis by Susann Cokal BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) 380 pages, $24.95 LIFE in the provinces of 14th-century France was one of strife, pestilence and death. The world held little beauty, particularly for women, and even less...

Long Discounted, Labor Emerges as an Ally.(Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance Edited by Kitty Krupat and Patrick McCreery University of Minnesota Press 320 pages. $49.95 ($19.95 paper) IN the past several years, the apparently moribund American labor movement has...

It Happened in Northampton.(The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal)(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal Barry Werth Doubleday. 325 pages, $26. NEWTON Arvin's name is one that even the most assiduous reader of gay literature may not have encountered. A...

Stephen O. Murray's Homosexualities.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Discourse about homosexuality usually revolves around the question of whether it's a "socially constructed" phenomenon or whether it has biological origins of some kind. Proponents of the former view sometimes hold that homosexuality is a...

The term "depression" is bandied about loosely enough as it is, but for gay and lesbian people, many of whom have been homophobically especially difficult.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Michael Shernoff The term "depression" is bandied about loosely enough as it is, but for gay and lesbian people, many of whom have been homophobically rejected by their own families, diagnosing what is depression as distinct from normal...

Le Placard ("The Closet") is perhaps the most refreshing yet therapeutic gay comedy to be released in the 21st century.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Le Placard ("The Closet") is perhaps the most refreshing yet therapeutic gay comedy to be released in the 21st century. Directed by Francis Veber, who gave us La Cage aux Folles about a gay man trying to act straight, Le Placard is about a...

Reflections on Intimacy.(books by Mark Doty)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Still Life With Oysters and Lemon Mark Doty Beacon Press. 128 pages, $18. Murano Mark Doty Getty Trust Publications. 56 pages, $14.95 Mark Doty's most recent book, Still Lifee With Oysters and Lemon, is a meditation...

Coming Out Made Easy.(Metes and Bounds)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Metes arid Bounds by Jay Quinn Harrington Park Press 201 pages. $39.95 ($17.95 paper) Over time, the gay coming out story has become about as predictable as a rerun of The Golden Girls, having been anthologized, memoired,...

Encore, Paris.(The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris)(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Bloomsbury. 211 pages, $16.95 Edmund White opens his fifteenth book (the first in a new series by Bloomsbury Publishing, "The Writer and the City") by defining a...

At the Rehab.(Poem)
September 1, 2001... The M&M's scattered in your crusted bed sheets make me sick, likewise the clotted applesauce stuck to the table. Did you fall asleep eating? Patients are supposed to be quiet, stay in cranked-up beds, clean in the clean...

Sonnet.(Poem)
September 1, 2001... Hagiography or not, that stocking goes! I love to wear your clothes, but this poor frayed Polyester barely veils my toes. Though memories enshrine you, this is dead. Extremely dead. You wore it that last year At Gold's in...

Uganda: Coming to Terms (at last) with HIV/AIDS.
September 1, 2001... From the terrace of the Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel you can see the lake floating on the horizon like a blue diamond. The "Lake Vic" is a well-maintained colonial vestige with a garden of hibiscus, royal palms, ficus, philodendron,...

Circulate Widely.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Kevin's Room Directed by Sharon Zurek (USA, 2001, video, 59 minutes) FILMS, videos, and television programs that realistically portray the lives of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people of color are few. Fewer still...

A Stropshire Lad on the Great White Way.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Invention of Love A new play by Tom Stoppard Directed by Jack O'Brien At the Lyceum Theatre, New York JOHN Simon, the brilliant but bilious theater critic, recently complained on PBS's Charlie Rose of the increasing trend...

Housman England: Empire Had Its Privileges.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Born in 1859, A. E. Housman, the English poet and Latin scholar, was very much a creature of the late Victorian period, an era in which the sun never set on the British Empire and when English moral superiority, especially as practiced by smug...