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Nov '01
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More Mel Roberts
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Mel Roberts was a famous gay photographer active in California in the 1960s and '70s. A new retrospective of his more sexual work is out
now-- The Wild Ones |
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Nov '01
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Gay Acting
By: Michael Bronski
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Poor Mel Gibson. From his earliest films, like Tim, he was considered a hot number. By the time he made Mad Max, he had evolved into a parody of a leather queen hulking about like it was the last few hours of the Folsom Street Fair and he was determined not to go home alone. |
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Oct '01
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Speaking its Name
By: Michael Bronski
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Once upon a time homo was a dirty little secret. Not any more. Lord Alfred Douglas may have felt that queerness was the love that once dare not speak its name, but would never have imagined it would end up dancing
at Disneyland or used to market Absolut. |
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Sep '01
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Making Males
By: Michael Bronski
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"Me Tarzan, You Jane. Me White, Me Better." Well, that isn't exactly verbatim from Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914
Tarzan of the Apes, but it might as well have been. |
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Aug '01
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Courting Law
By: Michael Bronski
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Everyone loves the Supremes, at least the ones that featured Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Francs Ballard. The other Supremes-- the ones in Washington-- get more mixed reviews. Especially
from homosexuals. |
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Jul '01
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Gay Plus
By: Michael Bronski
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Here's a politics you can get behind: "If there's one thing that marks us as queer, it is undoubtedly our relationships to the body." And bodies are, indeed, where we begin to figure out who we are and what we want. |
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Jun '01
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Transliterated Tennessean
By: Michael Bronski
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These days it is pretty clear that
sometimes boys will be girls; but in
Alfred Brevard Crenshaw's case--
related in gossipy detail in this
memoir-- he didn't want to be a girl,
he wanted to be a woman-- and what
a woman! |
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Jun '01
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By anyone's aesthetic yardstick
By: Roger Moody
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By anyone's aesthetic yardstick, Will McBride (Könemann, cloth, 460 pages,
$39.95) is among the most engaging and satisfying presentations by an observant, observing, and observed photographer of the past 50 years. |
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May '01
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Sal of the Earth
By: Michael Bronski
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Small, sinuous, and sensuous Sal Mineo is now best remembered for his Academy Award-nominated role as Plato, the troubled teen in love with James Dean in the famed 1955 cult film
Rebel Without a Cause. |
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Apr '01
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Serious LA Wit
By: Michael Bronski
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Even if you don't know who Bruce Vilanch is, you've heard his jokes. He's the man who made Bette Midler funny, who made Billy Crystal beloved as Academy Award MC, and who cracks wise with the best on "Hollywood Squares," where he's rumored to write all of the jokes. |
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Apr '01
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Cronos
By: Bill Andriette
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Catalan photographer Pere Formiguera's stunning
Cronos isn't about sex. And it's a good thing, too, because otherwise this hefty photographic study might not have, as it has seemed to, flown under Western censors' radar screens. |
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Mar '01
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Sultry Songstress
By: Michael Bronski
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"Josephine Baker is a St. Louis washer-woman's daughter who stepped
out of a Negro burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in
Paris... [but] in sex appeal to jaded Europeans, a Negro wench always
has a
head start." |
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Feb '01
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Brits Make Love
By: Michael Bronski
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The big news in Gavin Lambert's memoir Mainly About Lindsay
Anderson is that its author had an affair with super-butch Hollywood director Nicholas Ray, whose
Rebel Without a Cause featured a dreamy Sal Mineo in love with a sexy James Dean. |
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Feb '01
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"I love him with my camera"
By: Michael Thompson
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Bruce Weber's recent Chop Suey follows his years of fascination with the youth he'd spotted at a wrestling match. |
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Jan '01
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Less > More?
By: Michael Bronski
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Gary Taylor's Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western
Manhood |
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Dec '00
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What's Hot...
By: Michael Bronski
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What do the following all have in common: James Dean, Chrissie Hinde, Bogart smoking, Marlene Dietrich's cheekbones, Gangsta Rap, Lauren Bacall's gaze, Berthold Brecht, heroin, Billie Holiday, Castigloini's 1516
Book of the Courtier, Eldridge Cleaver,
Lenny Bruce's irony, Grace Kelly, and Cary Grant? They are, for lack of a more precise word, cool. |
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Nov '00
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Saint Derek
By: Michael Bronski
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In 1986, at the height of his career, Derek Jarman was rigorously denounced by the queen of British
right-wing censors, Mary Whitehead, for promoting homosexuality and violence after his films
Jubliee and Sebastiane were shown on the Britain's Channel 4. |
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Oct '00
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Saved from the Memory Hole
By: Michael Bronski
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Samuel R. Delany is so prolific that you wonder if he's writing in some altered time zone that allows him to publish work from the future. |
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Sep '00
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Spider's Kiss
By: Michael Bronski
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Manuel Puig is best known as the author of The Kiss of the Spider
Woman, a quirky, highly literary meditation on the effect of movies on the everyday. |
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Aug '00
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Piano Man
By: Michael Bronski
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"How," you might wonder, "did Liberace ever get away with it in the 1950s?" You can't imagine a bigger sissy, or one more determined to not stay in the closet. |
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Jul '00
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Cultural Icons
By: Michael Bronski
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The words "Kinsey" and "contro- versy" seem to go together like ham and eggs, dildo and strap-on, love and marriage; well, maybe not love and marriage, but you get the gist. |
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Jun '00
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Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Eve
By: Michael Bronski
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Fasten your seat belts its going to be a bumpy night" snaps Bette Davis's Margo Channing in Joseph Mankiewicz's classic bitch-fest
All About Eve as she fumes about her lover's possible indiscretions with her
protege. |
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May '00
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The Science of Girls & Boys
By: Michael Bronski
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One of the great threats of long hair in the 1960s was the fear that you couldn't tell "if it was a boy or a girl." The fear has subsided in our
post-La Cage aux Folles, post-Madonna world, but persists still. |
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Apr '00
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Foreign Places
By: Michael Bronski
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, the drawings of Tom of Fin-land must be valued at millions of pants, grunts, and heaving yelps of sexual satisfaction. |
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Mar '00
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Queer South
By: Michael Bronski
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Men Like That: A Queer Southern
History is a remarkable, readable,
and resonant cultural history that
revises received ideas about
gay life. |
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Feb '00
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The First Hillary
By: Michael Bronski
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Easy ideas about sexual or queer politics are completely missing here. Cook is able
to illuminate intricate, often enigmatic, human relationships, and place them in a broader sphere of everyday private and public life. |
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Jan '00
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Sex in the Past
By: Michael Bronski
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A dazzlingly eloquent, provocative, and persuasive
cri de coeur against New York City's gentrification and redevelopment of Times Square, committed in the name of "family values" and safety. |
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Dec '99
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Life After Death
By: Michael Bronski
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Sharon Stone discovers lost papers; Sarah Schulman's ripped-off; and Alan Sinfield explores identity and culture. |
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Nov '99
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You'll Find It...
By: Michael Bronski
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John Donald Gustav-Wrathall explores how the YMCA is central to American mythology, while journalist Lewis Ellingham and novelist Kevin Killian remember beat poet Jack Spicer. |
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Oct '99
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Revisited
By: Michael Bronski
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Mark Senak's A Fragile Circle is an AIDS memoir with a political twist; the astutely researched Improper Bostonians examines the role that homoeroticism has played in constructing Boston society; Christopher Fall's The King's Men is a smart, sexy erotic novel set in 17th century England. |
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