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The Gay & Lesbian Review

WORLDWIDE

May–June 2015 • VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 3

WORLDWIDE The Gay & Lesbian Review ® PO Box 180300, Boston, MA 02118

C ONTENTS

Editor-in-Chief and Founder R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . ____________________________________ Literary Editor M ARTHA E. S TONE Poetry Editor

F EATURES

D AVID B ERGMAN Associate Editors

Roman Holiday 10 A NDREW H OLLERAN

Gore Vidal’s epic slide from Italy to LA (with stops in Key West) No “Equality” without Social Justice Jim Farley talks with the founder of Against Equality Has success spoiled GLBT culture and consciousness? America through a Gay Glass, Darkly Larry Kramer’s epic novel revises US history, and it isn’t pretty Doug Ireland’s Passion and Praxis The late activist never succumbed to the lure of easy victory Lesbians, Please Leave the Stage! An 1891 play was so risqué that even the Théâtre Libre banned it

JIM FARLEY , LEWIS GANNETT , CHRISTO - PHER HENNESSY , MICHAEL SCHWARTZ Contributing Writers ROSEMARY BOOTH , DANIEL BURR , RICHARD CANNING , COLIN CARMAN , ALFRED CORN , ALLEN ELLENZWEIG , CHRIS FREEMAN , MATTHEW HAYS , ANDREW HOLLERAN , CAS - SANDRA LANGER , DAVID MASELLO , JIM NAWROCKI , JAMES POLCHIN , VERNON ROSARIO , HEATHER SEGGEL , YOAV SIVAN Advertising Manager S TEPHEN H EMRICK Webmaster C HRISTOPHER H EYLIN ____________________________________ Board of Directors S TEWART C LIFFORD ( CHAIRMAN ) A RT C OHEN W ARREN G OLDFARB ( SENIOR ADVISOR ) D ONALD G ORTON ( CLERK ) R OBERT H ARDMAN R OBERT N ICOSON R ICHARD S CHNEIDER , J R . ( PRESIDENT ) M ARTHA E. S TONE T HOMAS Y OUNGREN ( TREASURER ) Contributing Artist C HARLES H EFLING D IANE H AMER T ED H IGGINSON

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The Price of Going Mainstream 16 D OLORES K LAICH

18 L EWIS G ANNETT

21 M ARTIN D UBERMAN

25 L AURENCE S ENELICK

R EVIEWS

30 A LLEN E LLENZWEIG 32 M ARTHA E. S TONE

Philip Gefter — Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

Priya Parmar — Vanessa and Her Sister

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B RIEFS

34 C OLIN C ARMAN 35 R OSEMARY B OOTH

Tobias Rüther — Heroes: David Bowie in Berlin

Gabrielle Glancy — I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In

36 Y OAV S IVAN

Charles Blow — Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Friends of The Review

A LAN H ELMS J ACK M ILLER

Justin Martin – Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians 38

L EADERSHIP C IRCLE

Eric Anderson/Roger Beck

Robert Hardman

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Alfred Corn — Miranda’s Book

Henry van Ameringen

V ERNON A. R OSARIO

Mary McAuliffe — Twilight of the Belle Époque

B ENEFACTORS

Dick Land Christopher Lirely Robert Nicoson Philip Willkie

William Condon Seth Grosshandler Ted Higginson David LaFontaine

D ENNIS A LTMAN

Mark Merlis — JD: A Novel Eleanor Lerman — Radiomen

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C HRIS F REEMAN D ALE B OYER J EFF S OLOMON J AMES P OLCHIN

Rupp & Freeman, eds. – U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History 42

S PONSORS

Bjorn Bjorklund Robert Black

Irv Englander David Fertik

Larry Palmer Don Patterson Daniel Pavsek Paul Reisch Ron Seidle Dennis Sondker Ron Suleski/ Jonghyun Jerl Surratt Kenneth Trapp Louis Wiley Jr.

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Carter Sickels, editor — Untangling the Knot

Tison Pugh — Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies 43 Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals (exhibition and book) 50

RichardAlther RandallArndt Don Bachardy Robert Ball III Michael Barrett Christopher Bohnert James Brogan David Lloyd Brown Victor Carlson James Carnelia Stewart Clifford Frederick Cowan Michael Cunningham Steven F. Dansky John Desmarteau MD Suzanne Dreyfus Donald Blackford Daniel Campbell Robert Christie Robert Cloud Art Cohen Samuel D. Brown Gary Domann Stephen Driscoll Clinton Elliott

William Filbrun Steve Frasheur Robert Giron James W. Hendrick John Hudson Michael Jarvis Rob Kvidt

P OEMS & D EPARTMENTS

John Mclane Mark Mullin

Guest Opinon — Therapists: Declare “Ex-Gay Therapy” Unethical

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S UPPORTERS

Robert Normandie Thomas Nothaft Michael O’Connell III Donald Ott Dean Papademetriou Ted Pietras Theodore Plute Charles Popper Bruce Eric Richards Mary Rogers Howard Schmuck Jan Schoenhaus Thomas Scott Laurence Senelick Charles Silverstein MD Martha E. Stone John Tederstrom Robert Teller

C ORRESPONDENCE 6 In Memoriam — Malcolm Boyd, 1923-2015: A Personal Reflection 7 P HIL W ILLKIE BTW

Thomas Gormly Bill Gorodner James Gother Charles Green Paul Grzella Dennis Hall Robert Hellwig Alfonso Hernandez Robert Heylmun Barbara Hoffman James-HenryHolland Richard Johnson Kent Johnson P h D Gary W. Jung Chris Kilbourne Clay King John Knepper Stewart Landers Charles Marlow Michael Matthews Bill McCarter Ronald Mershart Barry Mills Steve Molinari James Moore

8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . Poem — “Songs” by António Botto 20 J OSIAH B LACKMORE Poem — “Psalm” 24 E D M ADDEN

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