The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

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.

January-February 2006

Features

Laptops and Loneliness

“We’re not even bowling alone anymore”

Andrew Holleran

Anti-Gay Politics on the Web

Behold the religious Right’s latest anti-gay ploy: sound scientific

Janice M. Irvine

The Heart of a Virtual Hunter

Why the guy you met on-line isn’t the man of your dreams

Michael Shernoff

Who’s Hooking Up On-line?

Gender, geography, and self-representation in personal ads

David Gudelunas

Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenom

“Slash” stories imagine Harry romancing the men of Hogwarts

Marianne MacDonald

Back on the Beach

Michael Ehrhardt talks with a newly revived playwright

Edward Albee

What Was Same-Sex Marriage?

The genealogy of a liberationist idea, 1950’s to present

Timothy Stewart-Winter

Reviews

Ned Rorem — Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003

Daniel A. Burr

Scott Poulson-Bryant — Hung

Charles Michael Smith

Robert Hofler — The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

Tab Hunter — Tab Hunter Confidential

Chris Freeman

Tania Katan — My One-night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir

Martha E. Stone

Jonathan Ames, ed. — Sexual Metamorphosis

Jim Nawrocki

Wesley Stace — Misfortune: A Novel

Michael DiSchiavi

Briefs

Frederick Smith — Down for Whatever

J. D. Guilford

“Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition,” at the Guggenheim

David B. Boyce

Poems & Departments

Guest Opinion — UN Policy on Domestic Partners Thaws a Bit

Guest Opinion — Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Is anyone listening?

Tod Burke & Stephen Owen

Correspondence

BTW

Poem — “Cosmedics”

Michael Montlack

Art Memo — Fly on the Web: When performance goes on-line

Joey Orr

Poem — “Pricked”

Joe Eldridge

International Spectrum — Palestine and “World Pride 2005”

Farris Wahbeh

Poem — “Flight”

Claire Drucker

Art Memo — New Orleans: Birthplace of Lesbian Romance?

Christopher Capozzola

Artist’s Profile — Tim Kirkman: Storyteller of Human Complexity

John Esther

Bulletin Board