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A bimonthly Gay & Lesbian LGBT journal of history, culture, and politics with contributors like Edward Albee, Christopher Bram, Susie Bright, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Martin Duberman, John D'Emilio, Melissa Etheridge, Lillian Faderman, Barney Frank, Jewelle Gomez, Hillary Goodridge, Marilyn Hacker, Andrew Holleran, Gore Vidal, Evan Wolfson, Armistead Maupin, Ruthann Robson, and many more.

May - June 2009, Volume 16, Issue 3


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The Gay Media Jump the Page
By Tracy Baim
THE STORIED HISTORY of print publishing by and for the GLBT community goes back to the 1950’s and 60’s—some would say earlier still—and its dominance as the medium of choice for that community remained unchecked until quite recently. ...

The Hunt Is On (and not just for sex)
By Jack Mauro
IF YOU’RE OF A MIND to write a book about and for gay men and the Internet—or, say, fly fishing and the Internet, or careers in advertising and the Internet—know that your work will be hopelessly outdated about two hours before your publisher agrees to put forth the thing in ink.

Sontag Inventing Herself

Beauvoir of the Divided Heart

BTW

Correspondence


Features

The Gay Media Jump the Page
by Tracy Baim
On-line sites now reign, but can they survive without hard copy?

 

"Ex-Gay” Survivors Go On-line
by Peterson Toscano
How a support network helped expose a faith-based fraud

 

The Hunt Is On (and not just for sex)
by Jack Mauro
From M4M to Manhunt, the art of hooking up is being refined

 

Ghosts of GLBT History and Web 2.0
by C. Todd White
On-line archives offer the best hope for preserving our past

 

Why I Blog
by Four Bloggers
Schalchlin, Grace, Browning, and Ocamb justify the daily slog

 

Sexual Privacy and Literary Biography
by Raymond-Jean Frontain
Once taboo, the private lives of gays are now minutely examined

 

Whither Gay Literature?
by Don Weise
Natalie Hope McDonald talks to the new editor of Alyson Books

 

Homosexuality, Tunisian Style
by John Champagne
How homophobia and anti-Western sentiment get all mixed up

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Reviews

Patricia J. Fanning — Through an Uncommon Lens
by Philip Clark

Sheila Rowbotham — Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
by John Lauritsen

Susan Sontag — Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
by Irene Javors

Cheryl Crane — Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies
by Cassandra Langer

Judith Mackrell — Bloomsbury Ballerina
by Martha E. Stone

Simone de Beauvoir — Wartime Diary
by Heather Seggel

Alfred Corn — Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007
by Jason Roush

Terry Galloway — Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
by John R. Killacky

Larry Duplechan — Got til it’s Gone
by Terri Schlichenmeyer

Marc Epprecht — Heterosexual Africa?
by Thom Nickels

Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III, eds. — Resilience
by Joseph M. Ortiz

Briefs

Julian Jarrold, director — Brideshead Revisited
by Colin Carman

Poems & Departments

Guest Opinion — The Legacy of Bush’s Homophobic Prudery
by Don Monkerud

Correspondence

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In Memoriam — James Purdy, 1914-2009: A Personal Remembrance
by Michael Ehrhardt

Poem — “Mister Celebrates Father’s Day”
by Jim Elledge

Poem — “Ginsberg’s Cock”
by Robert Walker

Art Memo — A Tale of a Wig: My Brush with Andy Warhol
by James-Ron Brown

Art Memo — A Note on “Notes on Camp”
by David Bergman

Poem — “Bushed”
by John Barton

International Spectrum — Out in Kenya: Encountering Friends Like Us
by Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Bulletin Board

Artist’s Profile — John Cooper Takes the Helm at Sundance
by John Esther