Nuremberg Trials for AIDS

A full accounting is due for those who failed to speak and act

Larry Kramer

Rats

The perplexity that was Proust is on display in three new books

Andrew Holleran

Josephine Baker’s Hungry Heart

Her life encompassed decades, continents, and lovers of all sexes

Lester Strong

Songs of the Sirens

Music in ancient Greece was ruled by queer gods and poets

Judith A. Peraino

Schubert After Dark

Did his life in Vienna’s demimonde influence his music?

Philip Gambone

The Lieder and Homoerotic Love

Adoration of a male “friend” is a leitmotif of Romantic art songs

John Lauritsen

“A composer invents his own rules.”

Michael Ehrhardt talks to the creator of Our Town, the opera

Ned Rorem

The Love Songs of Jacob Israël de Haan

A Dutch Zionist (d. 1924) who wrote of Arab youths in quatrains

Brian Doyle

Lyndall Gordon — Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Alan Helms

John Weir — (What I Did Wrong: A Novel)

Raymond-Jean Frontain

Andrew Holleran — Grief

Lewis Gannett

Leslie Feinberg — Drag King Dreams

Martha Miller

Martin Meeker — Contacts Desired

James T. Sears — Behind the Mask of the Mattachine

Christopher Capozzola

Joe Keenan — My Lucky Star

Michael Schwartz

Janis and Richard Londraville – The Most Beautiful Man in the World

Martha E. Stone

David Greven — Men Beyond Desire

Daniel A. Burr

Rev. Dr. Jack Rogers — Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality

David R. Gillespie

Marie-Josee Ferron, director — Rainbow Pride

Charles Michael Smith

Guest Opinion — Marriage Amendments Assault Religious Freedom

Bob Minor

Correspondence

BTW

Art Memo — Dreaming Opera: Adapting Before Night Falls

Jorge Martin

Poem — “Villanelle for a Panboy”

Trebor Healey

Poem — “Lesbian Lovers”

Janell Moon

Bulletin Board

Poem — “Poem starting with a line by Cyrus Cassells”

Reginald Harris

Artist’s Profile — Armistead Maupin: Leaping to the Big Screen

John Esther