The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide articles from September 2004

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide archives from September 2004

Sept.-Oct. 2004: hearts and minds.
September 1, 2004... This summer marked the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, framing a period since 1969 in which nine presidential campaigns have taken place in the U.S. This year's is the first one in which gay and lesbian rights has been a major...

Renault vs. Yourcenar on Greek love.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... To the Editor: I enjoyed Alan Brady Conrath's essay on Mary Renault in the May-June issue. He justly praises Renault for her "realistic prose" and her contribution to our general understanding of the role of male love in classical Greece....

Philo not a Christian.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... Dear Editor: In your July-August 2004 issue, Andrew Holleran refers in his review of Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton, to "Christian figures like Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Philo of Alexandria." ...

Can cultural diversity go too far?(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... To the Editor: A few issues ago [Jan.-Feb. 2004] you ran an article by Samuel R. Delany that criticized a recent GLBT literary conference for its lack of ethnic and cultural diversity, followed by a lively debate in the next couple of...

Queer Eye for straight social values.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... To the Editor: The TV reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has been discussed in these pages a number of times, most recently by Melinda Kanner [March-April '04], who objected to the use of gay people to promote a consumerist...

The logic of humiliation.(BTW)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The images of torture and humiliation at Abu Ghraib Prison horrified an American public already weary of a prolonged war in Iraq, and the GLBT community reacted with special horror because many of the photos showed the prisoners engaged in real...

Choose your tradition.(BTW)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Opponents of same-sex marriage are fond of saying that they're defending a "traditional institution" that hasn't changed for x thousand years. Proponents have countered that the definition of marriage has changed since ancient times--or even...

Latest latter-day saint.(BTW)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... If the Catholic Church continues to struggle with how to accommodate its gay and lesbian members, the Protestant way is to spin a new church off from the one that's rejecting you--and the more homophobic the mother church, the more necessary...

Bush a "Sodomite"?(BTW)
September 1, 2004... That's the question that was raised by the journal Tikkun in a piece that considered how a literal interpretation of the biblical story of Sodom might apply to modern times. An accurate reading of Genesis reveals that the sin of Sodom was...

No place for lovers.(BTW)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... The so-called "red states" seem to be embarked upon a race to the bottom when it comes to passing laws and amending their constitutions to make absolutely sure that same-sex partners will never, ever be able to be married or domestically...

The end of insult.(BTW)
September 1, 2004... Who's hurt by extending the right to marry to same sex-couples? At least one person appears to be: Madonna's former bodyguard and boyfriend, James Albright, who sued for defamation when a book (Madonna, 2001) and two periodicals published a...

Calling our bluff.(BTW)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Springfield was the first community in Massachusetts to initiate a policy that would require same-sex couples to marry in order to qualify for domestic partner benefits. Other cities and companies in the Commonwealth can be expected to follow...

In praise of partisanship.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... FOR THE FIRST TIME in the more than thirty years that I've been engaged in the political fight against homophobia, I am beginning to think that my political career might outlast the legal embodiment of this vicious prejudice. If this turns out...

Goodridge takes effect: now what? Jo Ann Citron talks with the lawyer who won the case.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... SINCE 1990, Mary Bonauto has been the Civil Rights Project Director at GLAD--Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which serves the New England states--where she has crafted sophisticated impact litigation for the GLBT community and people...

Why we sued for the right to marry.
September 1, 2004... EVERY long-term gay or lesbian couple has stories about being denied access to benefits or excluded from protections that are available to heterosexuals. Some are minor inconveniences, such as the inability to rent a car the way a married...

Getting us where we live.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... WHILE THE WORDS "we are everywhere" can be heard frequently at gay and lesbian political events, the 2000 United States Census provided the first empirical confirmation of this rallying cry. The finding that same-sex unmarried partners were...

Peace activism and GLBT rights.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... AS GAY MEN AND WOMEN have come out of the closet and achieved basic civil rights, many in the movement have focused most of their attention on gaining full equality, including the right to serve in the armed forces. But GLBT people have also...

Out and running in 2004.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... THE GAY & LESBIAN VICTORY FUND was established in 1991 to increase the number of openly gay and lesbian officeholders in the United States. At the time of its founding, there were fewer than fifty such individuals serving in public office. That...

A big question for gay Republicans.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... TO MOST gay and lesbian Americans, it's an easy choice deciding who to vote for in the 2004 presidential election. John Kerry is the most pro-gay candidate ever to run for President, while George W. Bush is pushing for an anti-family...

Equal dignity under the law.(Essay)
September 1, 2004... A DISTRAUGHT STUDENT slips into the office of her high school guidance counselor. The student thinks she might be a lesbian. It is dawning on her that she seems to like girls rather than boys. And someone has just called her a derogatory name....

Road trip: Buffalo, March 2001.(Poem)
September 1, 2004... we start out past midnight the tank half empty the rain stopped, and it's so warm now, we have the windows down. We're silent like this My eyes on the road, and yours, well I don't know, I can't seem to relax, or even enjoy the...

Mark Weigle, singing out the gay experience.(Artist's Profile)
September 1, 2004... FOR A SINGER who describes his career as governed by "trial and error," Mark Weigle has produced a steady output of CDs since his debut in 1998, and has attracted a loyal following across the U.S. That first CD was called The Truth Is, a title...

Being Henry James.(Books)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Master by Colm Toibin Scribners. 352 pages, $25. HENRY JAMES'S grandfather was a millionaire, as rich as John Jacob Astor. James's father was a playboy alcoholic who found religion and reformed. Henry grew up in the tony...

De-verse.(Books)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II Edited by Jim Elledge Indiana University Press 464 pages, $65. EVEN the erudite student of gay writing will find previously unknown poets anthologized in Masquerade. I...

Hearing a deaf boy's orgasmcries.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 1, 2004... Giving a blowjob to a deaf boy and hearing his comecries he can never hear, How different they are from comecries of boys who can hear and have heard them, But a boy-deaf-since-birth's orgasmcries from a...

Shakespeare in love (the sequel).(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Looking for Sex in Shakespeare by Stanley Wells Cambridge University Press 111 pages, $16. (paper) DESPITE its slender size and breezily elegant prose, Looking for Sex in Shakespeare is a richly informative and learned book that...

Complaint in the Garden.(Briefs)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Complaint in the Garden by Randall Mann Zoo Press. 55 pages, $14.95 Randall Mann's debut collection of poems, which won the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry, distinguishes him as a poet of considerable and varied gifts. What's...

The End of Gay and the Death of Heterosexuality.(Briefs)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The End of Gay and the Death of Heterosexuality by Bert Archer Thunder's Mouth Press. 288 pages, $14.95 First published in Canada two years ago but only now out in the U.S., The End of Gay raises questions that many of his readers...

Do Everything in the Dark.(Briefs)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana St. Martin's Press / Griffin. 256 pages $12.95 Gary Indiana is the critical coroner of America's walking dead, a vast throng. His book on Andrew Cunanan, Three Month Fever, is pure genius. It...

Circle work.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture by David Bergman Columbia University Press 288 pages, $62.50 ($24.50 paper) READERS of late 20th-century gay fiction are well aware of the existence of the group of...

Indulgences.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal by David France Broadway Books. 656 pages $26.95 WHEN I STUDIED to be an altar boy outside Philadelphia in the early 1960's my teacher was a seminarian who...

Boys are back.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Male by Kenneth Kidd University of Minnesota Press. 253 pages, $25.95 IT SEEMS appropriate that a gay scholar named Kidd would write a book about "boyology." The term originates in the...

What, no commies?(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson University of Chicago Press. 277 pages, $30. ON THE SOLSTICE earlier this summer here in Washington, D.C., I walked...

Whatever happens to the lesbian happens to me.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 1, 2004... Whatever Happens to the Lesbian Happens to Me (after Muriel Rukeyser) Whatever happens to the lesbian walking down 7th Avenue at two a.m., not thinking of danger, touching the turquoise earring her mother gave her, new stubble...

W & G revisited: a failure of Will.(Television)
September 1, 2004... Will & Grace NBC. Thursdays at 8:30 PM Created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick LOOKING for civil rights advances in a sitcom may seem an odd venture, but a recent series that screened at New York's Museum of Television & Radio,...