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The Gay & Lesbian Review
May–June 2015 • VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 3 WORLDWIDE
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POEMS & D EPARTMENTS
Roman Holiday
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
The Price of Going Mainstream
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
CONTENTS
F EATURES
REVIEWS
Guest Opinon — Therapists: Declare “Ex-Gay Therapy” Unethical
CORRESPONDENCE
In Memoriam — Malcolm Boyd, 1923-2015: A Personal Reflection
BTW
Poem — “Songs” by António Botto
Poem — “Psalm”
International Spectrum — Coming Out Twice: Gay and Asian in the UK
Artist’s Profile — Jamie Brickhouse Remembers Mama
CULTURAL CALENDAR
Art Memo — James Baldwin Comes Alive in Film Classic
Philip Gefter — Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Priya Parmar — Vanessa and Her Sister
BRIEFS
Tobias Rüther — Heroes: David Bowie in Berlin
Gabrielle Glancy — I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In
Charles Blow — Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Justin Martin – Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians
Alfred Corn — Miranda’s Book
Mary McAuliffe — Twilight of the Belle Époque
Mark Merlis — JD: A Novel
Eleanor Lerman — Radiomen
Rupp & Freeman, eds. – U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History
Carter Sickels, editor — Untangling the Knot
Tison Pugh — Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies
Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals (exhibition and book)
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