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OEMS

EPARTMENTS

Notes on Camp—and Anti-Camp 10 B RUCE L A B RUCE

Fifty years after Sontag’s salvo, camp has conquered pop culture

Drag Kings by Any Other Name 14 C LARE W ALL

Female cross-dressing from Joan of Arc to Gizell Timpani

Vampires Are Us 17 R ICHARD S. P RIMUTH

Dracula and his kind have been a gay metaphor for over a century

The Lives and Times of Harry Chess 22 M ICHAEL J. M URPHY

The first gay comic hero (b. 1965) was a man’s man in all senses

James Purdy’s World of Extremes 25 M ICHAEL S CHWARTZ

His short stories add new nooks to the novelist’s dark expanses

Truth and Reconciliation 32 R AYMOND -J EAN F RONTAIN

Terrence McNally’s

Mothers and Sons

revisits that epic gay bond

ONTENTS

EATURES

EVIEWS

Guest Opinion — Mandela Eulogies Ignored His GLBT Activism 5 J AMES P ATTERSON C ORRESPONDENCE 6 BTW 8 R ICHARD S CHNEIDER J R . Poem — “after Resume” 31 M ICHAEL M ONTLACK Poem — “Provincetown 2013” 38 J UDITH S AUNDERS Poem — “No Geese This Evening” 41 H ELENA K AMINSKI Poem — “Isherwood Journals” 45 B RYAN B ORLAND C ULTURAL C ALENDAR 46 Sean Strub – Body Counts: A Memoir

of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

35 L EWIS G ANNETT Tatamkhulu Afrika — Bitter Eden 36 D ALE W. B OYER Nigel Simeone, editor — The Leonard Bernstein

Letters

37 I RENE J AVORS Edward White — The Tastemaker: Carl v

an Vechten...

39 R ICHARD C ANNING Catherine Reid — Falling into Place: An I

ntimate Geography of Home

40 R OSEMARY B OOTH R. B. Parkinson — A Little Gay History 42 R ICHARD M. B ERRONG Mitzi Szereto — The Wilde Passions of D

orian Gray

43 J EAN R OBERTA Vinton Rafe McCabe — Death in Venice, Califor

nia

43 A NTHONY G UY P ATRICIA Liza Monroy — The Marriage Act 44 T ERRI S CHLICHENMEYER Erin G. Carlston — Double Agents 45 C HARLES G REEN A Queer History of Fas

hion

— Book and Exhibit at

the FIT Museum 48

C ASSANDRA L ANGER B RIEFS 49 Elton John — The Diving Board (album) 50 C OLIN C ARMAN

March–April 2014

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