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Jan '04
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Queer for Jews
By: Michael Bronski
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Thirty years ago the idea of gay and lesbian studies was flamingly bright imagine (we barely could) an actual, formal, study of how gay men and lesbians lived their lives, how their history was shaped, how they fit into the world. |
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Dec '03
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500 years of female love
By: Michael Bronski
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Terry Castle's books have been among the sheer delights of contemporary queer criticism. |
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Dec '03
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Cooing with Doves
By: Roger Moody
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He was the first openly gay Nobel prize winner and arguably France's greatest-ever diarist. Studies of his life and works have been churned out with monotonous regularity ever since his death in 1951. So, what more could we possibly learn about André Gide? |
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Nov '03
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Spectral Tomes
By: Michael Bronski
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Books get published all the time. I've a pile here of eight new gay-and-lesbian novels, a handful self-help books, some biographies, and a new rush of volumes on queer theology. A few are good, most are kind-of-OK, and
others are just outright-- well, why were they published? Looking at my new-book pile makes me wonder: where are the books I actually want to read? I mean the ones that haven't been published and probably not even written. |
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Oct '03
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Still Smoldering
By: Michael Bronski
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It would be easy to say that gay literature is often lost to history. Novels, poems, stories, and diaries with homoerotic content are often
viewed as indecent or threatening, and swept under the critical or archival carpet, if not simply destroyed. |
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Sep '03
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What Might've Been
By: Michael Bronski
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Reading through Time on Two Crosses is both wonderful and disheartening. Here we have writings-- political theory, journals, interviews, essays, op-ed
pieces-- crossing four decades of American political life from 1942 to 1987, and each year we can see the mind growing, the social consciousness developing
and maturing. |
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Aug '03
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Church of Tolerance
By: Michael Bronski
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In their new book Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious
Tolerance (New York University Press, 160 pages,
$22.95) Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini present a fresh way to look at the problem of
arguing for gay rights and also sexual freedom. Even more interesting, the template they've created can also work for a whole range of other social and civil liberties. |
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Jul '03
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Novelists in Love
By: Michael Bronski
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The 1960s get all the attention. But the decade before, which lay the groundwork for all that ferment, is once again coming into its own. |
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Jun '03
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Bunny to Prof
By: Michael Bronski
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We all know, or at least suspect, that behind every extremely respected, highly accomplished, and well thought-of person there is another story. Sometimes this is obvious--is there
any doubt that the social patinas of Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld hide a wealth of hideous corruption? Well, actually, the corruption, and the business connections, are barely hidden--but
often they are not. And sometimes the private story behind the public face is surprising, maybe shocking, and revealing. |
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May '03
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Lit Candy
By: Michael Bronski
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Pulling Taffy is an exhilarating
experience because once you get past the
"this is a scary trip through a fucked up
culture" plot, it's impossible
not to be moved by the narrator's emotional
forthrightness and honesty. |
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Apr '03
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Monkey Spanking
By: Michael Bronski
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Quick: name two things that will weaken your eyesight and make you go blind. Got it? Now, how are they connected? First a little background. |
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Mar '03
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Vain, Catty, Silly...
By: Michael Bronski
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A popular Paris nightclub. An orchestra launches into a popular foxtrot and the dance floor fills up. A handsome young man makes his way over to one couple.
Young Man: May I cut in?
Woman: Why certainly.
Without skipping a beat the man dances off with the woman's partner, an equally attractive young man. The club's owner (Al Jolson) observes the scene from the bandstand. |
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Feb '03
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Murder Foul
By: Michael Bronski
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It was an ugly cultural moment that unnerved Hollywood and pushed it, a few steps, into the future. On Halloween morning, 1968, the body of famed silent film actor Ramon Novarro
was found murdered in his Hollywood Hills home. He had been killed by two brothers hustlers who, either through drunken accident or homicidal intention, beat and pummeled the
69-year-old actor. |
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Jan '03
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Staying Afloat
By: Chris Farrell
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Jamie O'Neill has created a book that is too short at 572 pages. Although the arc of its narrative, a year in Ireland that climaxes with the Easter Rebellion of 1916, is satisfying,
At Swim, Two Boys will leave readers with
regret as they turn the last page. |
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Jan '03
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Closet Classics
By: Michael Bronski
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It's fashionable for readers to despair about the state of gay fiction. Sure there are always new gay mysteries, new erotic stories, new junky gay romances (mostly set in South Beach or Fire Island and featuring the names
of popular new alcoholic drinks). But literary novels, or even literate ones, are harder to find. |
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Dec '02
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Revolution
By: Michael Bronski
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The recent death of Harry Hay has prompted many people who think about gay politics and history to ponder the intellectual state of the movement. While Hay was an important
thinker and activist he pretty much invented the concept of an American gay movement in 1950 his passing points to a sad fact: there have not been many thinkers (or activists) of
lasting note throughout the relatively short history of gay lib. |
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Nov '02
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Quotidian Kevin
By: Michael Bronski
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Brian Malloy's debut novel The Year of
Ice, set in Minnesota's Twin Cities in 1978, is compelled forward with this strong voice, of its narrator, Kevin Doyle-- a high school senior
who's just coming out, dealing with the death of his mother, and pretty much an average sort of guy. |
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Oct '02
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No Shelter
By: Michael Bronski
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Our civilization is doomed to short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I am personally content to see everything in the process of decay. The bigger the bombs, the
quicker it will be done. Life is visually too hideous for one to make the attempt to preserve it. Let it go." |
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Sep '02
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Viral Thoughts
By: Michael Bronski
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Looking back, after almost two decades of the AIDS epidemic, it's amazing how little of real worth has been written about AIDS or its politics during that time. |
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Aug '02
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Twinkling Porn Stars
By: Michael Bronski
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Here's a bit of info that may surprise readers: when porn star/diva Geoffrey Karen Dior met 1980s porn legend Al Parker in a San Francisco leather bar, things just clicked. |
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Jul '02
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Play Your Hand
By: Michael Bronski
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'm laying on Neil's bed, the top of my head knocking against the headboard because his cock is inexplicably down my throat. All I can see is a triangle of dark hair coming at me.
This, and I have the unprecedented sensation of fullness in my throat. It's hard to breathe. The air comes into my nose in gasps that seem controlled by the thrusting of Neil's hips.
He thrusts; I get air. The air comes out my mouth, forced around the shaft of his cock. |
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Jun '02
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Water's Ripples
By: Michael Bronski
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A gay man walking over a bridge in a town in Maine is attacked, beaten, and thrown into the water by three teenaged boys. He drowns, the boys are arrested, and the story makes
the national papers. |
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May '02
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Poor Ain't Sexy
By: Michael Bronski
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Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors has certainly stirred the already turbulent waters of children and sexuality. Calm, thoughtful, insightful, and intellectually vigorous, Levine's book is a model of how to present a topic that
sends most people and the media over the edge. |
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May '02
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Love of the Gods
By: Bill Andriette
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For millennia, the legacy of ancient Greece served as counter to the Judeo-Christian West's hostility to homosexuality. But the story of Zeus and Ganymede aside, the Greek myths don't exactly roll off the tips of
contemporary queers' tongues. |
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Apr '02
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Undomesticated
By: Michael Bronski
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Queer biography and autobiography has a long history. Certainly Suetonius knew what he was doing in
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars when he documented Claudius's penchant for boys swimming in his pool and
nipping at his thighs. And John Addington Symonds's
Memoirs while published privately were eye-opening stuff for his crowd of Victorian friends. |
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Mar '02
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Sex's a Bore
By: Michael Bronski
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The newest entry into the boy hustler
genre is mostly heterosexual. At first
glance
Chicken: Self-portrait of a
Young Man for
Rent has a cheap, sort of
likable quality to it
that makes it closer to Mr.
Madam than to the pity-poor-me
tone of television movies. |
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Feb '02
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Fey Führer
By: Michael Bronski
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Queer life has always depended on-- not the kindness of strangers-- but the past to validate itself. In the 1870s, John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis came up with a list of famous homosexuals of the past to justify
the existence of homosexuals of the present. Who wouldn't want to claim the likes of Plato, Michelangelo, Byron, Shakespeare, and Winklemann as forefathers and compatriots? But this famous-guy school of gay history has
always been flawed and sort of silly. |
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Jan '02
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Old-Time Love
By: Michael Bronski
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Jonathan Katz's Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before
Homosexuality is a compulsively readable, provocative reconsideration of 19th- and early 20th-century male relationships. |
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Jan '02
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Hot Numbers
By: Bill Andriette
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At first blush, math and homosex have as much to do with each other as fish and bicycles. But on second thought, what about Alan Turing, the famous World War II code-breaker, driven to suicide after the exposure of a
queer relationship? And is there maybe a latent fascination with the Cartesian plane expressed in the title of the magazine
XY? |
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Dec '01
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Building Boys
By: Michael Bronski
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Forget helping little old ladies across the street, Scouting is a lot more complicated. And also forget the fantasies of Boy Scout camps being hot-beds of homo-sex and homo-fun. That is also a lot more complicated. |
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