March-April 2006
Features
Israel: Island of Tolerance in the Mideast
Jerusalem Open House is shining a global spotlight on this fact
Barney Frank
Lincoln, Sex, and the Scholars
What’s at stake if our greatest president was homosexual?
Lewis Gannett and William A. Percy III
Did Oscar Wilde Set Back Gay Rights?
The sordidness of the trials, not fine speeches, is what stuck
Michael Hattersley
L.A., 1/1/67: The Black Cat Riots
Did the revolution actually begin in California?
Belinda Baldwin
Tom of Finland: Sexual Liberator?
Yes, but the black boots and Nazi imagery can’t be ignored
John Rechy
What Made Stonewall Different?
Early activists were aware of branding it as an iconic event
Toby Marotta
Was Lesbian Separatism Inevitable?
The author of Lesbian Nation reflects on an era: An interview
Jill Johnston
How “The 70’s” Became a Morality Play
Must we present the decade as just a prelude to AIDS?
Jim Downs
Reviews
Susan Ackerman — When Heroes Love
Raymond-Jean Frontain
Lee Lynch — Sweet Creek
Joy Parks
Khaled El-Rouayheb – Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World
Donald L. Boisvert
Lev Raphael — Writing a Jewish Life and Secret Anniversaries...
Martha E. Stone
Kevin Bentley — Let’s Shut Out the World
Jim Nawrocki
T Cooper — Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes: A Novel
Diane Ellen Hamer
Bennett Miller, director — Capote
Christopher Capozzola
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion — How Abramoff Funded the Anti-Gay Agenda
Doug Ireland
Correspondence
Poem — “Months, Weeks ...”
Diane Furtney
Poem — “Sex Talk with Girls”
Maureen Seaton
Poem — “XXXXIII”
Hugh / Connie Fox
Art Memo — Reflections on Song of the Loon at Forty
Ian Mozdzen
Artist’s Profile — Margaret Cho Is a One-Woman Tornado
John Esther
Poem — “Dark Side of the Moon”
Kevin Stemmler
Bulletin Board