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BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Lately, I’ve been talking to students about the Lesbian Avengers. I stand up there like a figure of authority and show a video and answer questions about this dyke activist group I was a part of, and it’s all so weird because what’s my life is their history. Like a strange [...]

May 22, 20136861No CommentTime+Traveling+With+Richard+Bowes2013-05-22+16%3A52%3A50adminRead More

Going for the Silver

BY SETH J. BOOKEY | At a ceremony April 25 at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the Publishing Triangle Awards, which recognize LGBT writers and writing, celebrated their 25th anniversary. Trent Duffy, the group’s treasurer, recalled that the Publishing Triangle was created when a handful of motivated lesbians and gay men in publishing met in the [...]

May 8, 20136742No CommentGoing+for+the+Silver2013-05-08+22%3A55%3A32adminRead More

A Breathtaking Catalog of Integrity and Insight

BY DOUG IRELAND | Queers of all colors, styles, and status owe an enormous debt to Martin Duberman. Anyone who doubts that would likely learn otherwise from “The Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings,” just published last week by The New Press. Marty, as he is known to legions of same-sexers [...]

May 8, 20136748No Comment2013-05-08+20%3A49%3A00adminRead More

How Gay Kevin Got to Riverdale

BY MICHAEL SHIREY | Gathered among the 18 miles of books at the Strand Book Store on Lower Broadway, comic book geeks turned out for Archie Comics’ unveiling of “Kevin,” a new young adult novel set in the Riverdale Universe. The book, released in tandem with Grosset & Dunlap, features the early adventures of the critically [...]

April 24, 20136642No CommentHow+Gay+Kevin+Got+to+Riverdale+2013-04-24+15%3A40%3A17adminRead More

Allen Ginsberg’s Many Contradictions

BY DOUG IRELAND | You may think you know who Allen Ginsberg was. His name alone conjures up what Thomas Pynchon called the “anarcho-psychedelic” era, a counterculture of which Ginsberg was both the media symbol and the progenitor. But a recent critical biography published in London by Reaktion Books paints a picture that explodes myths about [...]

April 24, 201366468 Comments2013-04-24+15%3A20%3A08adminRead More

Total Recall

BY DAVID NOH | On the ninth floor of a high rise in one of the cushiest areas of Los Angeles, there resides an honest to God show business legend. At 99, Patricia Morison is amazingly alive and vibrant, with pristine recall of her storied past. And what a past: understudying Helen Hayes in “Victoria Regina” [...]

April 24, 20136666No CommentTotal+Recall+2013-04-24+14%3A55%3A59adminRead More

Lesbian Lives and Modernism’s Invention

BY DOUG IRELAND | Lesbian history is, sadly, too often neglected in the efforts to rediscover and renew our queer pasts, and remains an area of study rich in material yet to be mined. We are reminded of this by a sparkling new triple biography of three now nearly-forgotten women who — in the first half [...]

April 10, 20136509No Comment2013-04-10+17%3A20%3A27adminRead More

Sarah Schulman Uncensored

BY DOUG IRELAND | Sarah Schulman’s new book, “Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,” is a book that some Very Important People don’t want you to read. To their shame, that group ranges from the leadership of New York’s LGBT Community Center, which banned Schulman from reading from her book and answering questions about it, to [...]

March 13, 201360284 CommentsSarah+Schulman+Uncensored2013-03-13+16%3A59%3A00adminRead More

Wildely Ahead of Their Times

BY DOUG IRELAND | A quarter of a century before Oscar Wilde was sent to Reading Gaol for “the love that dare not speak its name,” the trial of two young, 20-something cross-dressing lads whom the London press dubbed the “Funny He-She Ladies” created a media firestorm. Ernest Boulton, 23, aka Stella, and Frederick Park, 27, [...]

February 13, 201355801 CommentWildely+Ahead+of+Their+Times2013-02-13+21%3A09%3A00adminRead More

LGBT Center Bars Sarah Schulman Reading

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A leading queer community author was barred from an appearance at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center apparently because the book she was to discuss deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We requested space for me to do a presentation of my new book ‘Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,’ which [...]

February 13, 20135575125 CommentsLGBT+Center+Bars+Sarah+Schulman+Reading2013-02-13+20%3A54%3A21adminRead More

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