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04/01/2012 

You Are Not the Playwright I Was Expecting: Tennessee Williams's Late Plays
 
If you are not familiar with the later plays of Tennessee Williams and would like to be, then it is helpful to put aside some assumptions about the playwright, or throw them out entirely.  view feature

04/01/2012 

Music: Classical, Before the Twentieth Century
 
From Hildegard of Bingen to Jean-Baptiste Lully to Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, queer composers and performers have had a substantial impact on classical music.
 
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03/01/2012 

Film Directors: Lesbian and Bisexual Female
 
Lesbian and female bisexual directors have had an important and continuing impact on both Documentary and dramatic Film. Several have helped combat lesbian invisibility and empower women by raising lesbian and feminist issues in their work.
 
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02/01/2012 

African-American Literature: Gay Male
 
The African-American gay male tradition in literature consists of a substantial body of texts, spans a period of eight decades, and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century such as James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. It challenges black and white homophobia as well as straight and queer racism.
 
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01/01/2012 

Photography: Gay Male
 
Gay male photography has blurred the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history and merits recognition for its contribution to fine art, documentation, photo-journalism, and advertising as well as erotica.
 
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12/01/2011 

Out Running. Or How I Became a French Quarter Character.
 
Contributor George Koschel recounts how his coming out and romance with running is connected to Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner, and in the process explains how he became a character in the French Quarter.  view feature

12/01/2011 

French Literature before the Twentieth Century
 
French Literature before the Nineteenth Century provides sparse examples of homoeroticism, but Nineteenth-Century French Literature witnessed a dramatic increase in representations of same-sex eroticism, a development that can be traced both to literary trends and to historical change.
 
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11/01/2011 

Transgender Issues and Activism
 
The term transgender was most probably coined by Virginia Charles Prince in the 1980s, but people we would now call transgender activists began fighting against oppression and discrimination more than a hundred years ago.
 
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10/01/2011 

Hinduism
 
Hinduism is the dominant religion of modern India. Though it is no longer as tolerant of same-sex sexual relations as it seems to have been in the past, Hinduism has inspired glbtq writers and spiritual seekers from both the West and the South Asian Diaspora.
 
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09/01/2011 

Twentieth-Century European Visual Artists
 
Many European artists including Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, David Hockney, Tamara de Lempicka, and Pierre et Gilles focused on queer themes that are crucial in understanding twentieth-century European art.
 
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