July - August 2007

This web site archives the Table of Contents for recent printed copies of the Gay & Lesbian Review Magazine and has samplings of interesting articles from past and recent issues. You can subscribe online to receive the G&LR magazine bimonthly in the mail and view premium articles online. Each issue includes about a dozen essays and a larger number of book and other reviews, plus a smattering of poetry.

Volume 14, Issue 4

La Vie en James

By Andrew Holleran

The Kirstein Century

By Steven Watson

Dietrich the War Hero

By Cassandra Langer

The Left Coast

By Christopher Capozzola

BTW

By Richard Schneider Jr.

Features

La Vie en James
Andrew Holleran

How Henry James juggled his Balzac and Flaubert in Paris

The Kirstein Century
Steven Watson

On the centenary of the man who brought ballet to America

The Vote that “Cured” Millions
Barbara Gittings

In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association made us all normal

The Politics of the Ex-Gay Movement
Wayne Besen

How the religious Right uses it to advance its anti-gay agenda

Anatomy of a Pseudo-Science
Jason Cianciotto

Ex-gay therapies aren’t just ineffective, they’re destructive and Sean Cahill

Surviving a Therapeutic Cult
Peter Gajdics

When the aversion and primal therapy failed, out came the drugs

Why Ex-Gay Therapy Doesn’t Work
Stephen Parelli

Postmortem on a Baptist pastor’s sincere attempt to change

AIDS Writing in Crisis Times and Today
Natalie Hope McDonald

The epidemic was the stuff of tragedy; what now for gay fiction?

Reviews

Farley Granger — Include Me Out
Michael Ehrhardt

Robert McAlmon — The Nightinghouls of Paris
Michael Schwartz

J. David Riva and Guy Stern, eds. — A Woman at War
Cassandra Langer

Daniel Hurewitz — Bohemian Los Angeles
Christopher Capozzola

Victoria A. Brownworth — Day of the Dead and Other Stories
Jean Roberta

Helen Boyd — She’s Not the Man I Married
Terri Schlichenmeyer

Dame Edna, performer — Back With a Vengeance Tour
Randy Gener

Christopher Shinn, playwright — Dying City
Allen Ellenzweig

Brian W. Cook, director — Colour Me Kubrick
John Curlovich

Departments

Guest Opinion — Big Gains in GLBT Rights from Coast to Coast
Matt Foreman

Guest Opinion — Can This Reader Be Saved?
David Bergman

BTW

Correspondence

Poem — “Mortar”
by Esther Ross

Interview — On Kirstein and Cures
Martin Duberman

Poem — “Chincoteague Island, 1989"
by Danielle Aquiline

Poem — “Dancer”
by John Barton

Author’s Profile — Dan Mathews: Connecting Animal and Gay Rights

Poem — “In Exurbia”
by David Masello

Author’s Profile — Alan Cumming: Triple Threat from across the Pond
John Esther

Art Memo — Rebecca: How a Lesbian-Inflected Movie Got Made
Duke Greenhill

Bulletin Board