March - April 2008

Features

The Marlowe in Edward II
by Allen Ellenzweig

• The playwright’s mad existence is realized in the tragic King

The Horseman in King James I
by Patricia Nell Warren

• How George Villiers won favor and acquired the King’s mount

The Lure of the “Sotadic Zone”
by Gordon Waitt and Kevin Markwell

• Myths of the exotic drew European gentlemen to hotter climes

Islamic War Zones I Have Visited
by Michael Luongo

• The search for signs of gay life in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq

“Invertidos” in Afro-Cuban Religion
by Moshe Morad

• A shunned minority occupies a place of honor in the Santaría

The Fight and Flight of Reinaldo Arenas
by Rafael Ocasio

• His smuggled novels exposed the war on gays in Castro’s Cuba

Desire Is Back in China
by Lisa Rofel

• An interview with the author of Desiring China

Spain’s Prolonged Road to Freedom
by Richard Canning

• Where even Don Juan wasn’t virile enough, rights came slowly

Reviews

Barry Day, editor — The Letters of Noël Coward
by Alfred Corn

Ian Young — Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps
by Daniel Burr

Willy — The Third Sex
by Richard M. Berrong

Pat MacEnulty — From May to December
by Martha Miller

Bob Smith — Selfish & Perverse
by Jason Roush

Kenny Fries — The History of My Shoes...
by Jim Nawrocki

Amy Hoffman — An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the GCN
by Martha E. Stone

Kevin G. Barnhurst, ed. – Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents
by Shawn Syms

Lee Thomas — The Dust of Wonderland
by Terri Schlichenmeyer

Evan Fallenberg — Light Fell
Gary M. Kramer

Briefs

David L. Chapman and Thomas Waugh, eds. — Comin’ At Ya!
by Richard Schneider Jr.