January - February 2007
Features
“Beauty Will Save the World”
The present of things past on a sojourn in Vermont
Jill Johnston
Fifty
Half a century of getting used to not getting used to it
Tom Pickurel
Perspectives on Intergenerational Love
Ain’t Over Yet
John Weston
Needed: A New Word for “Gerontophil”
Patrick O’Connor
Five Couples
John Lockhart
“Openhouse” Takes Root by the Bay
An intentional community to house and help GLBT seniors
Marcy Adelman
Fifty Years of Tea and Sympathy
That enigmatic book, play, and film about a persecuted boy
Christopher Capozzola
Reviews
Shadi Bartsch — The Mirror of the Self
William A. Percy III
Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons — Gay L.A.
Dan Luckenbill
Daniel A. Burr
Karyn Z. Sproles — Desiring Women
Martha Miller
John Carlyle — Under the Rainbow
Stuart Timmons
Sarah Waters — The Night Watch
Thomas March
Marvin D’Lugo — Pedro Almodóvar
Jim Nawrocki
Ruth Vanita — Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Mariage in India and the West
Thom Nickels
Hank O’Neal, photographer, et al. — Gay Day
Charles Michael Smith
Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. — Jacob’s Wound
Raymond-Jean Frontain
Briefs
John Cameron Mitchell, writer and director — Shortbus
John Michael Curlovich
The Art of Arno Breker
Richard Canning
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion — Challenging the Marriage Imperative
Stephanie Fairyington
Correspondence
In Memoriam — Gerry Studds, First Out Congressman, Dies at 69
Lewis Gannett
In Memoriam — Passages 2006
Martha E. Stone
International Spectrum — Italy: Politics under the Vatican’s Glare
Antonio Fabrizio
Poem — “The Wages of Meaning”
Darrell g.h. Schramm
Artist’s Profile — Terrence McNally: Dramaturgist of a Gay Century
Lewis Whittington
Poem — “Day of the Dead”
Tamiko Beyer
Poem — “Memory at 53”
Jim Cory
Poem — “Turning”
James Eilers
Bulletin Board
Art Memo — Burnout Revisited: Women’s Cultural Spaces
Bonnie J. Morris