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Heroes and Martyrs
January - February 2012, Volume 19, Issue 1


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How the Militant Movement Began
by Frank Kameny
Franklin Kameny (1925–2011), who passed away last October, is widely regarded as the major architect of the militant phase of the gay rights movement in the mid-1960’s. What follows is an interview with Kameny by Amin Ghaziani that was conducted in 2003, published here for the first time. Read on

Saint Sebastian in South Carolina
by Ed Madden
A Saint Sebastian pincushion sits on my desk. The figure suggests something of the quirky iconography of the saint whose imagery blurs so easily into the iconoclastic or the camp. It was this combination that impelled a group of artists to stage an art show centered on the image of Saint Sebastian—patron saint of soldiers and athletes, plague saint, gay icon. ... Read on

Death Comes to a Ballet Impresario
Irene Javors reviews René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life, by Judith Chazin-Bennahum

The Start of the Affair
Jeremy C. Fox reviews Weekend, a film by Andrew Haigh

Correspondence
Readers respond to articles in recent issues

BTW
Twists and triumphs "by the wayside"
by Richard Schneider Jr.


Features

How the Militant Movement Began
by Frank Kameny
Amin Ghaziani recovers a 2003 interview with the late activist

Love Songs of Gandhi and Malcolm X
by Steven F. Dansky
Both martyred leaders had a passionate bromance in their youth

Children of a Lesser Holocaust
by Alistair Newton
The Nazi war on gays, while not as systematic, was no less cruel

Lincoln vs. Douglas: Who Was Gayer?
by Richard Lawrence Miller
The old West was outlaw territory in more ways than one

Saint Sebastian in South Carolina
by Ed Madden
A homoerotic icon since the Renaissance is penetrated anew

J’accuse: The Heath Erases Gay Writers
by Jeff Solomon
A key anthology of U.S. literature slights the GLBT contribution

Of Monsters and Mad Love
by Edmund White
Michael Ehrhardt talks with the author of two new books





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