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JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2004

Volume XI, Number 1

 

FEATURES

The Day After
On presiding over “the gay table” 25 years after leaving Harvard
Andrew Holleran 12

Please Pass the Pepper
The fears in my “open letter to Bruce Bawer” were well-founded
David Bergman 17

What Became of “Freedom Summer”?
The hopes of a decade ago and the decline of AIDS activism
Sarah Schulman 20

The Unmaking of a Movement
Respectability has replaced social justice as the overriding goal
Martin Duberman 22

Taking the Fun out of Fundamentalism
The religious Right is no longer a joking matter
Jaffe Cohen 24

Dissent in Ashcroft’s America
Gay groups have joined the drive to silence their opponents
Patricia Nell Warren 28

Alphabet Soup in Provincetown
Of G’s, L’s, B’s, and T’s at the 2003 Lambda Literary Festival
Samuel R. Delany 31

Will Success Spoil Gay Culture?
A world of perfect equality may come with a cost
Michael Hattersley 33


BOOK REVIEWS

Lois W. Banner — Intertwined Lives
Janet Mason 35

The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries, 1970-1980
Thom Nickels 36

J. Bristow, ed. – Wilde Writings; J. Nunokawa – Tame Passions of Wilde
Richard M. Berrong 39

Stephen Harold Riggins — The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, A Life
Thomas March 40

Thomas Dworzak, photographer — Taliban
41 Jeff McMahon 41

John Ibson — Picturing Men
Matthew Kennedy 43

Catherine Smith and Cynthia Grieg — Women in Pants
Diane Ellen Hamer 44

Chris Bull — While the World Sleeps
Chris Bell 45

Mary Gabriel — The Art of Acquiring
Martha E. Stone 46

Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise, eds. — Time on Two Crosses
Jim Nawrocki 46

Émile Gaudreault, director — Mambo Italiano

Steve Warren 50

POEMS & DEPARTMENTS

Correspondence   4

Editorial — The G&LR and I
Martha E. Stone 5

BTW   8

In Memoriam — A Year of Passages for GLBT Artists and Writers
Martha E. Stone 10

Poem — “Chihuly Rose”
Carol Guess 16

Poem — “The Combination”
Joan Larkin 32

Artist’s Profile — Ned Rorem, Composer, Diarist, at Eighty
Lewis Whittington 38

Poem — “The Parts of You”
David Budinger 41

Briefs 47

Bulletin Board 48