January - February 2010, Volume 17, Issue 1
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The Second Life of Harriet Hosmer
By Patricia Cronin
HARRIET HOSMER (1830–1908) was a lesbian sculptor who emigrated from
the United States to Rome at an early age to become part of an
expatriate community of writers and artists, including a circle of
prominent “independent women.” She worked in marble, and the quality of
her surviving sculptures is extraordinary. The operative word is
surviving: much of Hosmer’s work has been lost or destroyed, preserved
in sketches and descriptions in dusty catalogs but otherwise forgotten.
Get to Know Bruno Vogel
By Raimund Wolfert
WITH HIS ANTI-WAR NOVEL ALF, from the year 1929, the Leipzig writer
Bruno Vogel (1898–1987) acquired a prominent place in gay literary
history. The novel, which Vogel himself subtitled “A sketch,” describes
the love between two high school students, which ends in tragedy. It is
the time of the First World War.
Features
In Defense of Queer Theory
by Jason Schneiderman
... against Larry Kramer’s claim that it “heists” our history
The Second Life of Harriet Hosmer
by Patricia Cronin
Cassandra Langer talks with the creator of “Lost and Found”
Edmund White’s New York
by Kat Long
Eyewitness to the birth of gay culture as we know it, 1962–1979
Do We Need Gay Literature?
by David Bergman
As a “minor literature,” it can reach beyond cultural boundaries
“Ardi” and Human Sexual Evolution
by Patricia Nell Warren
What a 4.4 million-year-old fossil reveals about pre-human sex
Get to Know Bruno Vogel
by Raimund Wolfert
A German soldier’s WWI novel was a herald of gayer tomorrows
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Reviews
Magdelena J. Zaborowska — James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade
by James Polchin
Eileen Myles — The Importance of Being Iceland
by Jason Roush
Andrew Koppelman — A Right to Discriminate?
by Vernon Rosario
Seba Al-Herz — The Others
by Heather Seggel
Sebastian Stuart — The Hour Between
by David Ritchey
Melissa Hart — Gringa; Nancy Agabian — Me As Her Again
by Terri Schlichenmeyer
J. J. Sagmiller — The Adventures of Nico and Gianni: London 1712
by C. Todd White
S. Bear Bergman — The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
by Martha E. Stone
Margot Canaday — The Straight State
by Mark John Isola
Emma Donoghue — The Sealed Letter
by Jean Roberta
Briefs 46
Three movies: I Love You Man; Funny People; The Hangover
by Colin Carma
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion — DADT Losing Support Inside the Military
by Brett S. Berry
Guest Opinion — How Obscenity Laws Snare the Innocent
by James P. Quinlan
Correspondence
BTW
Poem — “After Love”
by Alex Dimitrov
Poem — “From: More Banalities”
by Brane Mozetic
Poem — “For a Seductive Student”
by Jeff Mann
Author’s Profile — Martin Duberman: Life of an Activist Historian
by Paul D. Cain
Artist’s Profile — Jonathan Ned Katz: Turning from History to Art
by Lester Strong
Poem — “Sally Field”
by Maureen Seaton
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