GLR May June
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
13 R YAN C ONRAD
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
41 M ARY M ERIAM
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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