July - August 2006
Features
The slayer of Goliath was a gay icon for Renaissance artists
Raymond-Jean Frontain
Sexual Ambiguity in the Life of Disraeli
The dandy Prime Minister’s novels abound with “Greek love”
William Kuhn
How “brokeback” were the lives of cowboys in the old West?
Patricia Nell Warren
How They Do It in West Texas
Just another place where the forgotten men come and go
Laurence Tate
A Man’s Own Story
Michael Ehrhardt interviews the author of My Lives
Edmund White
Merrily We Roll Along
A funny, furious poet, Eleanor Lerman is back after 25 years
David Bergman
Mapping (Bi)Sexual Desire
You’re on your own when negotiating this unmapped terrain
Sharon Staum
Reviews
Paul Webb — Ivor Novello: Portrait of a Star
Allen Ellenzweig
Jim Nawrocki
Tirza True Latimer — Women Together / Women Apart
Martha Miller
Tom Boellstorff — The Gay Archipelago
Matthew Kennedy
Thomas Glave — Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent
Charles Michael Smith
Earl Ganz — The Taos Truth Game
Martha E. Stone
Wade Rouse — America’s Boy
Thomas March
Gavin Butt — Between You and Me
Lewis Whittington
Daniel Gawthrop – Rice Queen Diaries;
Rafaelito V. Sy – Potato Queen
Tom Baker
Larry Dean Hamilton — A Gathering of Angels
Don Gorton
Michelle Tea — Rose of No Man’s Land
Jason Roush
Richard Schneider, Jr.
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion — Equality Riders Challenge Campus Homophobia
Stephanie Fairyington
International Spectrum – Poland: Gay Pride Parade Is Attacked in Kraków
Kitlinski and Leszkowicz
Poem — “Mädchen in Uniform”
Heather McNaugher
“Stemming the Rose”: A Brokeback Mystery
Blanche Poubelle
Art Memo — What Ode to Billy Joe (the Movie) Disclosed in ’76
Ben Edward Akerley
Poem — “Glass Orgasm”
Jee Leong Koh
Poem — “Days of 1912”
Gregory Woods
Poem — “The Qualifying Round”
Toni Mirosevich
John R. Killacky