The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from September 2002

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from September 2002

September-October 2002: "P'town agonistes".(Provincetown, MA)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The real theme of this issue is "Voices of the S(ages)," but in our quest to cover breaking current events, we plunge into a controversy that's been swirling all summer in Provincetown, Mass., precipitated by the publication of a book. Most of...

Correspondence.
September 1, 2002... New Evidence on Hitler's Sexuality To the Editor: Extraordinary new evidence of Adolf Hitler's same-sex disposition has come to light [since my article in the May-June 2000 issue]. In an article about the Bayreuther Festspiele that...

Homophobe versus homophobe. (BTW).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... You may have thought the so-called "ex-gay" movement was about as close to the central pit of homophobia hell as you could get, but apparently groups like Exodus and its ilk aren't homophobic enough for Rev. Fred Phelps, the Kansas minister of...

No Commentary Required. (BTW).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The following appeared verbatim in The Progressive Review (5/28/02): "Chris Stephan, Scotsman. British marines returning from an operation deep in the Afghan mountains spoke of an alarming new threat-being propositioned by swarms of gay local...

"Meltdown". (BTW).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... That's the word the media repeatedly used to describe Michael Ovitz, the Hollywood mogul and former number-two at Disney, when he blamed Hollywood's "gay mafia" for his recent troubles, notably the collapse of his latest business venture,...

What Are We Fightin' For? (BTW).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Washington Post reported (6/17/02) that the Bush Administration has been quietly aligning the U.S. with conservative Islamic governments to halt the expansion of sexual and political protections and rights for gays, women, and children at...

Love among the Romantics. (Essay).(male eroticism in the 19th century)(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... THE STORY begins in Geneva, late 1819 or early 1820, where Edward John Trelawny, an exsailor, meets Edward Ellerker Williams and Thomas Medwin, lieutenants on half-pay returned from India. Trelawny and Williams are in their late twenties,...

Nietzsche on the body of man.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
September 1, 2002... AUGUST 25,2000 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Nietzsche in Weimar. To commemorate the occasion I purchased the definitive Kritische Studienausgabe of his works edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. The first six volumes...

Sapphists in the Luxembourg Gardens.(Poem)
September 1, 2002... Sapphists in the Luxembourg Gardens ELIZABETH GRAINGER "Alice look here at the herbaceous border keeping thyme as guard of the older roses. Look at nature's brush in the bright red poppies-- flame in the garden." Fall will...

The anthropological perspective. (Interview).(Interview)
September 1, 2002... Ellen Lewin's work has mainly focused on lesbian and gay family life and kinship, particularly on how lesbian and gay kinship intersects with more general patterns in the wider culture. Her books include Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in...

Was Plato antigay? (Essay).
September 1, 2002... Athenian Stranger: O Stranger of Lacedaemon, all such indulgences are praiseworthy where there exists a strain of firm moral fiber, but where this is relaxed they are quite stupid. -- Plato's Laws 1.637b THE DIALOGUES of Plato have...

Sartre and sexual choice. (Essay).(Jean-Paul Sartre)
September 1, 2002... IN A PUBLICITY NOTICE for Jean Genet's Miracle de la Rose (1946), Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, "Proust presented homosexuality as a destiny, Genet vindicates it as a choice." Few words grate on contemporary gay nerves like the word "choice." The...

Who were Miss Furr and Miss Skeene? (Essay).
September 1, 2002... ETHEL MARS and Maud Hunt Squire were artists in their own right, but today our interest in them derives largely from the fact that they figured prominently in two of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," in which she referred to Mars and Squire as...

Sex and the teenage sleuth. (Essay).
September 1, 2002... MILDRED WIRT BENSON died on May 29th in her home town of Toledo, Ohio. She was 96. Upon her death, Benson received more press than she ever had during her very long life. She was, as all of her obituaries pointed out, the author of 23 of the...

High camp in a galaxy far away. (Essay).
September 1, 2002... ALTHOUGH MANY CRITICS attempted to destroy the recently released Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the film is in my view a pioneering cinematic achievement and a milestone in homosexual mythmaking. By synthesizing epic archetypal...

I Never Went to Rome.(Poem)
September 1, 2002... I Never Went to Rome DARREN GREER I never went to Rome But I stalked the bathhouses of Europe -- Improved diplomacy with my mouth and cock in Brussels Hoisted mast among sailors in the West End of London, Steamed myself into...

Women's rights from the enlightenment. (Books).(No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women)
September 1, 2002... No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman Ballantine Books. 400 pages. $26. CONTEMPORARY feminists tend to think of feminism as a distinctly modern movement, one that began in the...

Spinning Jenny. (Books).(Unraveling at the Name)
September 1, 2002... Unraveling at the Name by Jenny Factor Copper Canyon Press. 83 pages, $14. UNRAVELING at the Name is an impressive debut, and despite the title's suggestion of disintegration, Jenny Factor appears to know exactly who she is and...

In The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right (Verso), Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein denounces. (Brifes).
September 1, 2002... In The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right (Verso), Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein denounces The Log Cabin Republicans, The Republican Unity Coalition (gays for George Bush), and popular media figures like Andrew...

Any fan of John Waters' movies will enjoy Robrt (that's how it's spelled) Pela's breezy biography-filmography, Filthy: The Weird World of John Waters (Alyson Publications). (Briefs).
September 1, 2002... Any fan of John Waters' movies will enjoy Robrt (that's how it's spelled) Pela's breezy biography-filmography, Filthy: The Weird World of John Waters (Alyson Publications). It's fascinating to learn that Waters's second film, Roman Candles, was...

In William Storandt's charming fiction debut in The Summer They Came (Villard), the sleepy seaside Rhode Island town of Long Spit is transformed into the next gay party hotspot, to the chagrin of most of the locals. (Briefs).
September 1, 2002... In William Storandt's charming fiction debut in The Summer They Came (Villard), the sleepy seaside Rhode Island town of Long Spit is transformed into the next gay party hotspot, to the chagrin of most of the locals. Property developers from...

Is Provincetown doomed? (Books).(n: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape)
September 1, 2002... Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape by Peter Manso Scribner. 320 pages, $25. Lan'ds End: A walk through Provincetown by Michael Cunningham Crown. 176 pages, $16. TWO recently published books about...

Jay Critchley on "P'town Inc.".(Interview)
September 1, 2002... The last time Jay Critchley contributed to this journal, it was in a parody travel piece called "P'town inc.: Survivalist Camp Resort" (Summer 1999), part of Critchley's ongoing attempt to call attention to the transformation of the community...

Grandson of Frankenstein. (Books).(The Deadly Space Between)
September 1, 2002... The Deadly Space Between by Patricia Duncker Ecco. 247 pages, $23.95 THE intellectual nuances of Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between has more in common with her first novel, the inspired Hallucinating Foucault, than it...

A woman of rock.(Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro)
September 1, 2002... Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michele Kort Thomas Dunne Books. 352 pages, $25.95 LAURA Nyro's career polarizes critics on many fronts. Was she a talent of legendary dimensions who paved the path for women in...

A sane life, after all. (Books).(Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story)
September 1, 2002... Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story by Betty Berzon University of Wisconsin Press. 242 pages, $27.95 BETTY Berzon is an author and psychotherapist whose books about love and intimacy have been in print for decades. She was...

A gay everyman. (Books).(Body Blows: Six Performances)
September 1, 2002... Body Blows: Six Performances by Tim Miller University of Wisconsin Press 272 pages, $32.95 TIM Miller states in Body Blows that he views theatre as "primarily a big minor that can be held up to the community." Whether that's true...

Minor author, major life. (Books).(Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography)
September 1, 2002... Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography Jerry Rosco University of Wisconsin Press. 306 pages, $29.95 GLENWAY Wescott was once a household name. Writing from Paris in the 1920's, he was one of the first expatriate American authors...

Life in the Castro. (Books).(Out in the Castro)
September 1, 2002... Out in the Castro Edited by Winston Leyland Leyland Publications. 352 pages, $24.95. THE photo shows four men, viewed from behind as they walk arm-in-arm toward a street corner. The caption reads: "Friends on Castro Street, 1984."...

Life under Castro. (Books).(Last Night)
September 1, 2002... Last Night by Brendan Lemon Alyson. 288 pages, $24.95 "THEY'RE coming for me in the morning. Whether the news will be death or deliverance I do not know." From its opening lines, Brendan Lemon's debut novel about love won and love...

Conferences/Events.
September 1, 2002... Out on the Road to Freedom, the National Convention of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), will be held Sept 12-15 in Philadelphia. Contact Stuart Tart. Phone 202-588-9888 x12, or e-mail Actart@nlgja.org. Out &...

Bisexual chic at the Bijou. (Cinema).
September 1, 2002... Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) A Girl Thing (2001) American Pie 2 (2001) Just One Time (2000) Last Night (1999) Bedrooms And Hallways (1998) Maybe... Maybe Not (1995) "ELVIS looked good. I ain't no fag, but Elvis...