November-December 2005
Features
Listening to the Civil Rights Movement
What we can learn from the black activism of the 50’s and 60’s
Mary Jo Festle
The New Gay Teen: Shunning Labels
Today’s youths are challenging fixed ideas about sexual identity
Ritch C. Savin-Williams
A Literature of Hope for GLBT Youth
Mark Roeder’s novels turn coming out into a romantic adventure
Don Gorton
What Becomes of At-Risk Gay Youths?
The lucky ones end up in programs like Waltham House
Colby Berger
The “Ex-Gay” Agenda
A journey into the trenches of a fundamentalist crusade
Mark Benjamin
The “Down Low” in Life and Legend
An interview with the author who challenged the media hype
Keith Boykin
Reviews
Peabody and Ebersole, eds. — Conversations with Gore Vidal
Thom Nickels
Will Roscoe — Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love
Douglas Sadownick
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II: 1945–1957
Raymond-Jean Frontain
Michael Paller — Gentlemen Callers
Chris Packard — Queer Cowboys...
James Polchin
Martin Moran — The Tricky Part
Stephen Kuehler
Mark D. Jordan — Blessing Same-Sex Unions
Daniel A. Burr
Richard McCann — Mother of Sorrows
Jason Roush
Briefs
M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Walt Whitman and the Earth
George Klawitter
Poems & Departments
Correspondence
Poem — “Teheran III”
Ron Hudson
Poem — “The Truest Notions”
Christopher Thomas
Poem — “Cooking”
Jeredith Merrin
Artist’s Profile — Craig Lucas: Playwright with a Movie in Him
John Esther
Bulletin Board
Art Memo — The Life and Work of Paul Monette on Show
Dan Luckenbill